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Fall is here—that means it’s decorative gourd season and also flu shot season.
Opinion

Fall is here—that means it’s decorative gourd season and also flu shot season.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Oct 16, 2025

Have you gotten your flu shot yet, or made an appointment to do so? Sara Rubin here, pleased to say I’ve already checked that box (earlier tha…

CHOMP requiring masks during winter respiratory virus season to protect patients, staff and visitors.
News

CHOMP requiring masks during winter respiratory virus season to protect patients, staff and visitors.

  • Pam Marino
  • Nov 1, 2023

It's no longer just cold and flu season, "respiratory virus season" includes Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, among other vir…

Covid-19 still poses a real threat, but there’s a new vaccine on the way to join flu and RSV shots.
News

Covid-19 still poses a real threat, but there’s a new vaccine on the way to join flu and RSV shots.

  • Pam Marino
  • Sep 14, 2023

Like thousands of other Californians in July, Monterey Councilmember Alan Haffa found himself caught up in a wave of Covid-19 infections that …

Respiratory illnesses are hitting hard, pressuring health care systems.
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Respiratory illnesses are hitting hard, pressuring health care systems.

  • Pam Marino
  • Dec 8, 2022

A vestige of the early days of Covid-19, the respiratory triage tent, is making a reappearance at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula…

A pandemic triage tent is returning to CHOMP; A Natividad doctor reports kids suffering from multiple respiratory viruses at once.
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A pandemic triage tent is returning to CHOMP; A Natividad doctor reports kids suffering from multiple respiratory viruses at once.

  • Pam Marino
  • Nov 30, 2022

Significant levels of influenza combined with an early surge of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and an expected increase in Covid-19 cases p…

Pressure on pediatric hospital beds prompts a call to families to protect themselves from respiratory illnesses.
News

Pressure on pediatric hospital beds prompts a call to families to protect themselves from respiratory illnesses.

  • Pam Marino
  • Nov 17, 2022

If a child here in Monterey County get so sick with a respiratory illness that they need advanced care, they need to leave the county—there ar…

First winter season death of a young child in California due to flu and RSV reported.
News

First winter season death of a young child in California due to flu and RSV reported.

  • Pam Marino
  • Nov 15, 2022

A child under the age of 5 has died in California due to a combination of the flu and Respiratory Syncytial Virus, referred to as RSV, the Cal…

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