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As COVID-19 Cases Rise, Sacramento And Yolo Counties Recommend Wearing Masks Indoors Thursday, July 15, 2021 | Sacramento, CA Joshua Morris tends to a rack of 3D printers making parts for face shields needed for medical care on Friday, April 3, 2020. Andrew Nixon / CapRadio Sacramento County Public Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye says when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, “our way out of this is with vaccination.” COVID-19 case rates have nearly tripled in the county in recent weeks, from 3.8 per 100,000 on June 20 to 10.4 per 100,000 now. ...

COVID vaccine update: Placer ranks high among California counties in rate of doses given Sacramento Bee 1/29/2021 Michael McGough, The Sacramento Bee Jan. 28—California is weeks into a mass vaccination campaign to bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, administering tens of thousands of shots a day. The California Department of Public Health on its vaccine tracker reported Thursday that providers have administered 2,893,493 out of about 4.73 million doses that have been distributed to hospital systems and local health offices, an increase by 163,231 from the total reported...

Coronavirus updates: California ICU capacity drops to 4% as cases, deaths hit highs Sacramento Bee 12/17/2020 Michael McGough, The Sacramento Bee Dec. 17—Intensive care unit space is scarce and becoming thinner by the day in California, where mountains of new coronavirus cases are also being detected on a daily basis — a distressing sign that an even worse hospital crisis and higher death tolls could be looming in the coming weeks. The state's hospital systems are burdened by nearly 15,000 confirmed COVID-19 patients, recently surpassing double the summer peak experience...