Live Virtual Town Hall - Coronavirus: What You Need to Know

VTH Norcal COVID19 NorCal Public Media is working with officials from Sonoma County and other Bay Area health officials to answer your questions. This week's guests will include:

Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase,

Laurie Fong, President of the Santa Rosa School Board,

Photojournalist Erik Castro,

Sheba Person-Whitley, Executive Director at Sonoma County Economic Development Board,

and Robert Eyler, Dean of the School of Extended and International Education at Sonoma State University.

Plus, other guests...

Hosts will be NorCal Public President & CEO Darren LaShalle and Assistant News Director Adia White.

Submit your questions at norcalpublicmedia.org/coronavirus. Or Tweet your question along with the hashtag #NorCalCorona.

Coronavirus: What You Need to Know can be viewed on KRCB TV 22 in the North Bay, KPJK TV 60 in the South Bay, and KRCB-FM Radio 91, as well as Facebook Live, YouTube, and at norcalpublicmedia.org/livestream.

Spanish simulcast is available at 104.1 FM La Mejor.

Coronavirus Updates

December 06, 2020

Understanding the New Regional Stay-At-Home Orders

Regional Stay Home Orders will go into effect within 24 hours in regions with less than 15% ICU availability, and prohibits private gatherings of any size, closes most businesses and services except for critical infrastructure and retail, and requires 100% masking and physical distancing in all…
November 05, 2020

California Offered a Lifeline When Their Hours Were Cut — Then Payments Froze

By Lauren Hepler November 3, 2020November 4, 2020 Lea este artículo en español. (Bailey Brown at her home in Pismo Beach on Oct. 25, 2020. Photo by Robert Oliver for CalMatters.) Bailey Brown had never heard of Work Sharing when her boss pitched the state program to keep her and her co-workers on…
October 29, 2020

Coronavirus: A Weekly Report from NPR News – Friday at 8pm & Sunday at 12am

Hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro, this special report features the best of NPR's reporting on the coronavirus crisis over the past week, with a focus on the latest science, wide-scale impacts, and things you can do to stay safe. Find our complete programming schedule here.
October 19, 2020

Exclusive: Kaiser Cited for Failing to Treat COVID-19 as Airborne

By Jackie Botts and Ana B. Ibarra, CalMatters October 16, 2020 California workplace safety officials issued a serious citation against a Kaiser Permanente psychiatric facility in Santa Clara, accusing the center of failing to provide workers with N95 masks and other protection against COVID-19. But…
July 23, 2020

KBBF Informe: Licencia Por Enfermedad Remunerada, Paid Sick Leave

Por Edgar Avila, KBBF Radio This episode was produced by Edgar Avila, KBBF Radio This article is a summary of a KBBF informe special loosely translated by NorCal Public Media. Listen to the original version in Spanish below. Puedes escuchar este episodio en español abajo: Welcome to this episode of…
July 21, 2020

Hundreds of Healthcare Workers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Strike Over Safety Concerns and Benefits

Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Workers are on strike for the week to demand a safer workplace. They say Providence St. Joseph Health, which owns the hospital, is proposing to cut their health care benefits and sick leave. They also say the hospital is not providing adequate personal protective…
Jul 07, 2020

Santa Rosa City Council to Vote on Emergency Sick Leave

We provide local news updates on The North Bay Report Tuesday-Friday at 6:45, 8:45 a.m., and 5:30 p.m. on KRCB radio 91 and 90.9. Here's our North…
Jun 15, 2020

County Coronavirus Health Disparities Continue To Grow

Latino residents in Sonoma County are now nine times more likely to become infected with coronavirus than white residents. On Thursday, the Latino…
Jun 12, 2020

Public Health Officials Face Wave Of Threats, Pressure Amid Coronavirus Response

By Lauren Weber and Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press June 12, 2020 Emily Brown was stretched thin. As the director…
Jun 09, 2020

Minority Leader Schumer Tackles Pandemic Housing Issues

In a call Monday with the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told several thousand people what he was…
Jun 04, 2020

NorCal Outreach to Latinx Community Recognized Nationally

In an article from the public media journal Current, Northern California Public Media was recognized this week for its efforts to ramp up…
May 29, 2020

The National Conversation with All Things Considered – Weekdays at 6pm

Each weekday, the 6:00 pm hour of All Things Considered will generate and respond to the national conversation around the COVID-19 outbreak with…

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