Exactly one year ago Saturday, Stanislaus County announced its first death related to the coronavirus. The death toll is now at 1,017, according to the latest data released by the Health Services Agency. Last summer, to illustrate the seriousness of COVID-19, the county published a chart showing the average annual […]

Stanislaus County added 245 case of COVID-19, the most in several weeks, but it resulted from a lag in reporting. “Today’s cases include delayed laboratory results that were batch reported,” said the online dashboard for the Health Services Agency. The county now has 52,913 positive tests, 516,850 negative test results […]

The holidays are stressful under normal circumstances. But during an ongoing global pandemic that has killed more than a quarter-million Americans and has again shut down small businesses locally, well, it’s easy to not feel so holly or jolly. Still as this coronavirus crisis has worn on, hopefully we’ve learned […]