by Gary Zavoral | Jan 27, 2021
Vitals staffers Monique Binkley Smith, Ashley Boarman and Emma Dugas contributed to this story. He’s 80 years old and a disabled Navy veteran, but Daniel Morales Jr. got his COVID-19 vaccination this week because, he says, “I’ve still got some good living to...
by Gary Zavoral | Jan 21, 2021
Rebeca Calderon of Los Banos, a rural community in the heart of California’s Central Valley, came to the small hospital in her town barely able to breathe and thinking she was going to die. She tested positive for COVID-19. For most rural residents who are critically...
by Gary Zavoral | Jan 13, 2021
A Northern California ICU physician who was one of the first in the region to get both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine documented her vaccination journey and concluded that, while she experienced some temporary flu-like symptoms, she would do it again and encourages...
by Gary Zavoral | Dec 29, 2020
By Kathy Engle Yevgeny, a 37-year-old software engineer, suffered for two weeks with the novel coronavirus, and now, nearly three months later, he is free of COVID-19. But he is far from being recovered. Yevgeny is still off work, suffering from ongoing “brain fog,”...
by Gary Zavoral | Dec 21, 2020
This is part of a series celebrating those individuals who define themselves by what they can do, not what they can’t do. Sutter Health Assistant General Counsel Ed Fabi serves as co-lead of the Military & Veterans Inclusion Resource Group. He retired in May 2020...
