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Supporters of recalling three members of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors this week turned their attention away from board members and instead directed their ire toward a recall opponent.
A week after one recall supporter got into a confrontation with Nathan Blaze, posters made of court documents about him and his social media posts covered one wall in the board’s hearing chambers.
There was even a poster of former President Donald Trump with a caption telling Nathan Blaze, You re Fired, his signature line from when Trump starred on The Apprentice television show.
Recall supporters have targeted supervisors Leonard Moty, Mary Rickert and Joe Chimenti for allegedly not standing up to statewide restrictions placed on businesses during the pandemic.
LEILA FADEL, HOST:
OK, let s turn to California. That new, highly contagious coronavirus strain that s quickly spread beyond the U.K. - it s now here in California. This as the state sets new records for COVID-19 deaths. Hospitals are overwhelmed. And space at intensive care units is dwindling. Hospital leaders are warning they may have to ration treatment and medicine. I spoke with Juan Ramirez, who s a traveling nurse. After stints in Texas and Arizona, Ramirez is currently working as an ICU nurse at the Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding in northern California. And he says some of his colleagues are burning out.
Moderna vaccine arrives in Shasta County
The second Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna, arrived in Shasta County on December 22.
Posted: Dec 23, 2020 6:46 PM
Updated: Dec 23, 2020 6:48 PM
Posted By: Ana Marie Torrea
REDDING, Calif. –The second Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna, arrived in Shasta County on December 22.
The Moderna vaccine does not require as strict storage requirements, as Pfizer. This is why that particular vaccine is being held at Shasta County Public Health, while Pfizer is being kept at Mercy Medical Center.
Moderna can be kept in a refrigerator between 36 and 46 degrees Celsius for up to a month, while Pfizer must be stored between minus 70 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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California’s most recent stay-at-home order zeroes in on a region’s ability to care for their sickest COVID-19 patients. But for rural hospitals that don’t have an intensive care unit, administrators say the worsening surge is presenting new challenges.
“The critical access hospital program was designed such that these hospitals would primarily be available to accept and stabilize patients and then transfer those patients to a higher level of care,” said Peggy Broussard Wheeler, vice president of rural health for the California Hospital Association. “Now that is whittling away because the larger facilities are all tremendously impacted by COVID and other patients.”
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California’s most recent stay-at-home order zeroes in on a region’s ability to care for their sickest COVID-19 patients.
But for rural hospitals that don’t have an intensive care unit, administrators say the worsening surge is presenting new challenges.
“The critical access hospital program was designed such that these hospitals would primarily be available to accept and stabilize patients and then transfer those patients to a higher level of care,” said Peggy Broussard Wheeler, vice president of rural health for the California Hospital Association. “Now that is whittling away because the larger facilities are all tremendously impacted by COVID and other patients.”