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Valley Edition - December 18, 2020 - Hmong New Year Cancelled, Losing Family To COVID-19

KVPR | By Kathleen Schock

Published December 18, 2020 at 3:14 PM PST

On this week’s Valley Edition: With Valley hospitals at capacity, we check back in with an ICU nurse from Fresno who lost a colleague to COVID-19 in May.

Plus, Black Americans have had good reason to distrust the medical system. How a Fresno coalition aims to rebuild that trust around COVID-19 testing and vaccines.

Andfor the first time ever, Hmong New Year in Fresno is cancelled. How the community is coping with the loss of tradition and social connection. Hear these stories and more on the podcast above.

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Alice Daniel

Alice Daniel was News Director for KVPR from 2019-2022. Daniel has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and more than 25 years of experience as a print and radio journalist.

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Madi Bolanos covered immigration and underserved communities for KVPR from 2020-2022. Before joining the station, she interned for POLITCO in Washington D.C. where she reported on US trade and agriculture as well as indigenous women’s issues during the Canadian election. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in anthropology from San Francisco State University. Madi spent a semester studying at the Danish Media and Journalism School where she covered EU policies in Brussels and alleged police brutality at the Croatian-Serbian border.

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