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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Hosted By Vicki Gonzalez

Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.

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Monday – Thursday, noon – 1 p.m. Rebroadcast 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Statewide Coronavirus Update / Animals And COVID-19 / Homemade Face Masks

A freeway sign in Sacramento, Calif. on March 19, 2020.

A freeway sign in Sacramento, Calif. on March 19, 2020.

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Guests

  • POLITICO Health Care Reporter Alice Ollstein with the latest on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic 
  • UC Davis Professor of Zoological Medicine and Head Veterinarian at the Sacramento Zoo Dr. Jenessa Gjeltema on the recent news that a tiger at a Bronx, New York zoo has been infected with the novel coronavirus
  • UC Davis Professor of Small Animal Medicine Dr. Jane Sykes discusses the prospects that COVID-19 is transferable between animals and humans 
  • House to Home Interiors owner Joyce Pluckebaum on homemade face masks after she donated fabric for face coverings
  • Sacramento resident Kala Greeson on making homemade face coverings for herself and others

    Segments

  • Federal Response To The Coronavirus Pandemic

    State and federal governments are grappling over coronavirus relief as the amount of hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths continue to evolve in the fight against the pandemic. We check in with a national reporter on the latest.

  • Animals And COVID-19 Susceptibility

    A tiger in a New York zoo has been infected with the novel coronavirus, raising concerns that animals can transfer it. We discuss those prospects today.

  • Homemade Face Masks Protecting Against Coronavirus

    People all over the country and the world are making their own face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

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