A building at the Indio Fairgrounds remains prepared to house coronavirus patients in the event that area hospitals run out of space. That’s the word from Riverside County Public Information Officer Brooke Federico. Federico says beds and all the necessary equipment to treat less seriously ill patients are still in place at the fairgrounds site,
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Demand for testing has increased along with the holidays and our climbing case numbers. News Channel 3’s Caitlin Thropay was out at a new testing site in Coachella to see how testing is being made more easily available for people living in the east valley. “We’re actually doing the mouth swab, not the nasal swab
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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco released a video Friday afternoon criticizing Governor Gavin Newsom and said that the department won’t be “blackmailed” into enforcing the pending stay-at-home orders. Newsom announced the new regional stay-at-home orders on Thursday. The orders go into effect when the ICU bed capacity in a region falls below 15%. It isn’t
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Local businesses are preparing for the likelihood of another devastating shutdown. Riverside County spokesperson Brooke Federico confirms that the stay-at-home order will go into effect 24 hours after the Southern California region reaches 15 percent of remaining ICU beds. “It’s been very hard, you know, we have a pregnant lady who’s here who is struggling,
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On Friday, San Bernardino County officially surpassed 100,000 total coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic in March. According to data by John Hopkins, San Bernardino County is now the 10th county in the United States to pass 100,000 cases. This comes amid a surge in cases that has seen the county break several
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Case Changes Riverside County reported 1,148 new cases since Thursday. This brings the total number of cases to 87,945. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Gov. Newsom announces regional stay-at-home order that could take effect in the next few days Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new regional stay-at-home
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The demand for COVID testing has increased along with the holidays and our climbing case numbers. Many test sites are open throughout the valley with results taking about 48 hours. But what if you need a rapid result test? There’s a new test site called Covid Clinic that opened on November 3rd in the parking
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Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new regional stay-at-home order that will be triggered when fewer than 15% of beds are available in ICUs for regional hospital networks. Watch Newsom’s full announcement below: Newsom said the order isn’t currently in place for any of the regions, but that could change within the next few days. ICU
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As coronavirus hospitalization continue to hit record levels in Riverside County, Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage is facing a possible staffing shortage as the medical center braces for its annual holiday season surge of patients, its chief medical officer said today. “I think we are as prepared as we can be,” Dr. Alan Williamson told
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Case Changes Riverside County reported 901 new cases since Tuesday. This brings the total number of cases to 86,797. The Coachella Valley reported 107 of today’s new cases (18,819 total). Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Gov. Newsom announces regional stay-at-home order that could take effect in the
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Case Changes Riverside County reported 1,072 new cases since Tuesday. This brings the total number of cases to 85,896. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) Governor Newsom warns of a possible stay-at-home order if current trends continue Governor Gavin Newsom said in his update on Monday, Nov 30
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Case Changes Riverside County reported 412 new cases since Monday. This brings the total number of cases to 84,824. The Coachella Valley reported 52 cases over the past 24 hours. There are a total of 18,592 cases in the valley since the start of the pandemic. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue
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The Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert announced Tuesday it was in the process of laying off its remaining staff and discontinuing all museum programming. A statement signed by its board blamed the state’s pandemic restrictions for its tight finances and being unable to open to families. “A modified reopening plan was developed using an
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It’s Giving Tuesday — a day set aside to focus on giving back in our community. Many of our local non-profits are struggling this year due to the pandemic, and could use a helping hand preparing for the holidays. Debbie Espinosa, President & CEO of FIND Food Bank, says their organization, like many, has been
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Case Changes Since Friday Riverside County reported 2,126 new cases since Friday. This brings the total number of cases to 84,412. Check out the county map below(Note Data will continue to update past today) California issues stricter mask mandate, implements 10 p.m. curfew Governor Gavin Newsom said in his update on Monday, Nov 30 that
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Monsignor Howard Lincoln at Sacred Heart Church in Palm Desert talked about the possibility of having parishioners celebrating mass back indoors once again. “We’d love to get back inside the church. We’ve been outside now for two months,” said Lincoln. Lincoln reacted Monday to last week’s decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that temporarily bars the state
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Next year’s Modernism Week has been postponed to April in order to provide the best experience possible. The popular Palm Springs event was originally scheduled to be held in February but the decision was made to push it back in order to give the state and county more time to improve its health status and
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Riverside University Health System’s weekly coronavirus provided an insight into the local coronavirus surge. Watch the full update below: Riverside County reported over 2,000 new cases since Friday. The county also surpassed its highest amount of coronavirus-related hospitalizations since the pandemic started. Full Details: Riverside County reaches record-high in coronavirus hospitalizations
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Governor Gavin Newsom shared startling numbers in his latest coronavirus update and issued a warning of more drastic action that if the case and hospitalization surge continue at its current rate. You can watch the full update below: “If these trends continue, we’re going to have to take much more dramatic, arguably drastic action,” Newsom
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Millions of Americans are heading home after traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday despite appeals from health officials to stay put. “Just getting gas to head home,” Jeff Roberts told News Channel 3 before heading home. “We came down here to Palm Springs to visit an old friend of ours,” Douglas Chapman said also before heading
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