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Even though COVID-19 has been the dominant public health threat for a year, first with a summer surge, then a winter surge, and now with the rollout of much-anticipated vaccines, other public health problems haven’t just disappeared. One long-standing health concern in the San Joaquin Valley is valley fever, a fungal disease that sickens thousands each year here and throughout the desert southwest. Even though the disease is caused by inhaling the spores of a fungus and it’s not transmissible from person to person, valley fever bears many parallels to COVID-19, including its varied symptoms, which can confound doctors and are commonly misdiagnosed for other respiratory ailments. Are patients who’ve suffered severe valley fever especially at risk of contracting COVID-19? And what happens to those who contract both? This week’s COVID-19 update examines how the pandemic has complicated the public health response to valley fever , featuring an interview with Science Friday science reporter
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