Administering third shots of the Covid-19 vaccine has become a hotly debated issue in recent weeks. The White House plan for the boosters to reach the entire population contradicts the guidelines of [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
Cuba Is Vaccinating and It Works (Imagine That!)
Cuba is vaccinating faster than any other country in the world, in terms of the percentage of population. Currently, more than 90% of vaccine-eligible people have had at least one dose and 63% are [...] Continue Reading
Marching for Women’s Reproductive Rights
Just a few weeks ago, on Sept. 1, Texas implemented one of the strictest abortion laws in the country. Women are only allowed abortions before a pregnancy hits the six-week mark. By this time, health [...] Continue Reading
Latino Essential Workers on Covid and Vaccines
By Jim Mendez Background As a retired Latino physician in California, I have been troubled about the severe, negative impact Covid-19 has had on the health of Latinos.3,4,8 Based on April 1, [...] Continue Reading
Pandemic Continues to Take Major Toll Despite Effective Vaccines
By Sunita Sohrabji The Covid-19 pandemic is continuing to take a major toll, despite the availability of proven mitigation measures and effective vaccines, said four subject matter experts from the [...] Continue Reading
Safe Schools in the Covid Era
The beginning of a school year is always a time of excitement but also of stress for schools, parents and students, and this year was not the exception; on the contrary, these emotions were [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Digital Rich and Digital Poor
In 2019–2020, Fresno County schools enrolled 207,858 students, of which 140,000, or 65%, were Latino and 10,600 were African American. But there are pronounced disparities in the educational [...] Continue Reading
Providing the Homeless with Reliable Covid-19 Information
The Community Alliance has dramatically increased its distribution to homeless people in Fresno. Our goal is to put truthful and reliable information about Covid-19 in the hands of our ever-growing [...] Continue Reading
Covid-19: Doctors Agree That Masks Are Here to Stay
The reopening of the economy amid the pandemic has generated confusion among Americans about whether they should continue wearing masks. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says that vaccinated [...] Continue Reading
Farmworkers Work Hard: How Do They Age?
Immigrants are the main labor force in the U.S. agricultural industry. Without immigrants we wouldn’t have vegetables and fruits on our tables. And even beyond the fields, immigrants perform jobs that [...] Continue Reading
Experts Advocate for Global Vaccine Production
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
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