Hospitals prepare for surge in virus cases
Sonoma County residents are being told to expect a rising wave of COVID-19 infection cases over the coming weeks, while local public health officials and hospitals prepare for the worst. That involves the county’s six acute care hospitals and numerous community health clinics scrambling to find spaces for hundreds of extra patient beds. Inventories of PPDs (personal protection devices), COVID-19 test kits and life-saving ventilators are being assembled. What that future COVID-19 “surge” will look like will depend on hundreds, if not thousands, of individual vantage points.
Pet food donations needed to keep pet pantry stocked
While the Humane Society of Sonoma County is operating at a limited capacity due to the state-wide shelter-in-place order, both the Santa Rosa and Healdsburg shelters are still providing their free pet food pantry for those in need.
Masks get thumbs-up from local docs and sewists
The United States (and Sonoma County) is in the middle of a tectonic opinion shift on the question of face masks. Last week, the controversy centered on the question of who should wear one — just frontline workers like doctors or nurses or everyone who goes out in public — and what masks should be made of? Are cloth masks OK?
Green Dog of the Week Queenie!
Queenie is a beautiful 8-year-old Queensland Blue Heeler/Australian Cattle Dog who, due to changes in the family, was returned to Green Dog Rescue Project recently.
Social distancing egg hunts
Through April 5, homes around Windsor will take part in a “social distance” egg hunt. Based on the recent national trend of a virtual “bear hunt” wherein people put teddy bears in the their front windows for children to spot as they walk by in neighborhoods during shut downs. With local egg hunts being cancelled left and right, the virtual version is based on a similar concept. Local homes are encouraged to create artwork eggs of any sort and place them in their windows for kids to spot.
Quarantine block parties break out around Sebastopol
Different neighborhoods are reacting differently to the shelter-in-place order. Some are silent and still with all the residents tucked away in their houses. Others are, well, rocking out.
Virus takes a toll on the farmers market
Sebastopol Farmers Market manager Carla Rosin is torn about whether to keep the farmers market open as the region plunges deeper into the coronavirus pandemic.
