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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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Homemade Face Masks Protecting Against Coronavirus

Tuesday, April 7, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
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In this Wednesday, March 25, 2020 file photo, U.S Postal carrier Jasmine Yang wears a mask and gloves as preventative measures against the coronavirus, as she delivers the mail in Sacramento.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is now recommending that all Americans wear face masks in public to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. 

Due to shortages of masks and CDC directives, people all over the country, and the world, are now making their own face masks to help. 

We talk with two local residents who are making face masks for themselves and others.

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  • House to Home Interiors owner Joyce Pluckebaum
  • Sacramento resident Kala Greeson

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    Coronavirus In California: Latest Updates And Resources

    The coronavirus has impacted nearly every aspect of life in California and around the world. Here are resources and all our coverage at CapRadio and NPR.

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