Summer spike in COVID-19 cases in Fresno County

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- COVID-19 whitethorn beryllium an afterthought for some, but California has seen a spike successful cases successful caller months.

"Our numbers successful Fresno person tracked with the remainder of California," said UCSF Fresno exigency aesculapian physician, Dr. Kenny Banh.

With much radical investigating astatine location oregon not astatine all-the authorities has recovered caller ways to way the virus.

"The fig 1 happening we're seeing is the summation successful wastewater, which is wherever you're sampling people's wastewater and seeing COVID and each the samples," Dr. Banh explained. "So you know, it's successful the nationalist that doesn't archer you individually who has it but tells you, arsenic a population. Numbers are mode way up."

Since the commencement of pandemic, we've seen cases spike successful the wintertime and summertime arsenic radical caput indoors to flight the weather... we besides thin to question more.

"In the summer, we person a spike due to the fact that it's really precocious question season, too," Dr. Banh said. "You know, similar radical are each successful the airports connected the buses, each visiting families. It's summertime vacation. There's a batch of there's a batch much question related to that."

The Fresno County Public Health Department says this summer's variant tin dispersed quicker than others we've seen successful the past.

"But we're not seeing, astatine slightest astatine this time, a higher level of severity, meaning we're not seeing much radical being hospitalized oregon dying owed to COVID," Fresno County Public Health Department Deputy Health Officer Dr. Trinidad Solis explained.

Symptoms of the existent variant tin beryllium the aforesaid arsenic the past.

"We are seeing a batch of radical with sore throats, coughs, fevers, but radical tin besides person abdominal symptoms, specified arsenic nausea, vomiting, diarrhea," Dr. Solis said. "So it's precise important if you're having covid symptoms to get tested."

The Fresno County Public Health Department says determination are inactive ways to get tested for free.

"We bash person a pro programme called the Rural Mobile Health Program, wherever we person providers that connection escaped investigating and attraction for COVID and individuals tin cheque retired our website and these partners rotate passim the agrarian areas of the region and connection these services," Dr. Solis stated. "In addition, our Department of Public Health has fixed COVID trial to antithetic assemblage based organizations. So they tin assistance america scope susceptible communities."

If you trial positive, doctors urge staying location for 24 hours oregon until you are fever-free without medication. You tin besides question treatment.

"Oral Paxlovid is inactive the mainstay archetypal enactment attraction for the immense bulk of covid cases and shown to beryllium effectual astatine reducing hospitalization and death," Dr. Banh said.

Doctors inactive urge staying existent connected your vaccinations-- with an updated COVID booster expected this fall.

"We person to deliberation astir it the aforesaid mode I get my yearly flu vaccine," Dr. Banh explained. "This is however COVID has become, wherever flu inactive has spikes and inactive hospitalizes and kills radical and takes some steadfast people, but a batch of at-risk populations, and we person to commencement reasoning astir COVID that way."

If you are sick, aged oregon person a compromised immune system, doctors urge wearing a mask.

As for if masks volition beryllium mandated again successful Fresno-the nationalist wellness section says that is not likely.