While new daily U.S. infection rates and deaths from Covid-19 drop, much of the world still suffers alarming outbreaks of contagion. Advocates for universal vaccination argue that the country cannot [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
Got Your Vaccine?
By Community Alliance Staff According to most experts, to control the pandemic, about 80% of the population has to be vaccinated against the deadly Covid-19. After a slow, chaotic and confusing [...] Continue Reading
Will Communities Hardest Hit Get Covid-19 Vaccines?
By Sunita Sohrabji The United States is weeks away from rolling out Covid vaccines, but pandemic experts say the challenges of vaccinating people will be acute, especially in communities of [...] Continue Reading
Who Dies and Who Cares
By Leni Villagomez Reeves When Covid-19 began to cause illness and death in the United States, initially people in general perceived themselves as being at risk. They behaved in ways that [...] Continue Reading
Why Is America Lagging the World in Managing Covid?
By Sunita Sohrabji The United States, which has both the largest number of infections and deaths from Covid-19, is lagging far behind other countries, many of which have far fewer resources, [...] Continue Reading
Nursing Homes Unsafe during Pandemic?
By Sunita Sohrabji The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the plight of U.S. seniors, who have been disproportionately infected and killed by the disease. Eight out of 10 Covid deaths in the United [...] Continue Reading
Meet Madera County’s New Public Health Officer
By Peter Maiden Dr. Simon Paul is the public health officer for Madera County. He started in his position in February, just weeks before the first reported case of Covid-19 in Madera County. He [...] Continue Reading
A Fresno Coronavirus Time Capsule
By Kevin Hall (Editor’s note: The coronavirus situation is evolving continually. The article below was submitted on March 15, so in all likelihood the data has worsened since the article’s [...] Continue Reading
What to Do About Teen Stress
By Ariana Mohebbi People often think that teenagers are influenced by the media to smoke, vape, drink or do drugs, but the main cause of these bad decisions is stress. School is the culprit for [...] Continue Reading
Workers Strike at Kaiser
By Peter Maiden Kaiser mental health workers with the National Union of Healthcare Workers struck throughout California the week of Dec. 16–20 to improve the standard of care for mental health [...] Continue Reading
California Wildfires Affect Air Quality in the Valley
By Eduardo Stanley Wildfires are becoming more common and more dangerous in California, destroying communities and polluting the air we breath. While there weren’t any big fires in the Central [...] Continue Reading
Behind the Scenes at the Pharmacy
Everyone goes to the pharmacy at one time or another. But how much do we know about what goes on behind the scenes there? Pharmacy manager Dr. Sheena Abedini, who works in a supermarket pharmacy in [...] Continue Reading