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More sectors to begin to receive vaccines starting next week 23ABC News Image and last updated 2021-02-19 15:03:46-05 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Kern County Public Health announced new sectors including agriculture workers, educators, childcare workers and emergency workers will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine starting next week. During the press briefing Friday, county officials pushed that the county is prepared to vaccinate the county at a rate of 45,000 doses a week if the county had enough of the vaccine. County Chief Administrative Officer Ryan Alsop said the county h...

California County Enthusiastic for Massive Vaccine Effort Kern County officials are turning the local fairgrounds into a mass vaccination site that will eventually administer 5,000 COVID vaccines a day. On the site’s first day, it vaccinated 330 people. Stacey Shepard, The Bakersfield Californian   |   January 25, 2021   |  News (TNS) — The plastic wheels of an elderly man's walker scraped across the rough pavement of the parking lot Friday as he made his way across P Street to the main entrance of the Kern County Fairgrounds. He was ...

The county of Kern has won a financial transparency award for its annual report of Fiscal Year 2018-19. Described as the “highest form of recognition” for government accounting and financial reporting, the Certificate of Achievement honors the county for a clear and accurate portrayal of its finances. Given out by the Government Finance Officers Association and judged by an impartial panel, a news release announcing the reward says Kern County demonstrated “a constructive ‘spirit of full disclosure’ to clearly communicate its financial story” in its annual report...

A couch on the side of the road, an old refrigerator tossed in a vacant lot, trash piled up at a highway exit — these are all common sights for many Bakersfield residents. But a new focus from the city of Bakersfield and county of Kern, along with an influx of cash from the Public Safety and Vital Services Measure that went before voters as Measure N, could soon change that. Just this week, the Bakersfield City Council and Kern County Board of Supervisors passed measures designed to curb illegal dumping and littering. City and county leaders expect the votes to be just the tip of the ice...

State officials announced that the intensive care unit capacity in the San Joaquin Valley had fallen to 1.9 percent on Thursday, far below the 15 percent mark that would allow