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It will integrate whole-person care in outpatient services by integrating the eight dimensions of wellness in departmental programming practices and developing outreach materials targeted to unserved and underserved groups, according to Chris Ribeiro, deputy director of the department.
The Public Health Department has had “all hands on deck” every single day as it responds to and guides the community through the novel pandemic, Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso said. The pandemic has offered the department the center stage to demonstrate its capacity to protect the health of the community, especially the vulnerable community members, Do-Reynoso said.
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Health officials say masks, social distancing are doing their part to drive down seasonal infections
During a recent two-week reporting period, only 10 patients out of 3,157 had a flu-like illness, according to the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department. (Noozhawk file photo) By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
March 14, 2021
| 9:00 p.m.
Cases of influenza are down significantly from previous years, likely because most people are wearing masks and socially distancing as a result of COVID-19, according to health officials.
According to the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, only 10 people had an influenza-like illness out of 3,157 patients over a two-week period ending March 6.
“Our state registration system requires an email for confirmation of the appointment, and many of our community members did not have that,” Do-Reynoso said. “It was amazing to have community members who could register and create an email account within their organization to receive the confirmation as well as to call their community members as reminders.”
The state-sponsored sign-up system that the Public Health Department uses for all of its vaccination clinics, PrepMod, requires an email address for the confirmation, whether people register themselves on the website or through the county call center at 2-1-1, spokeswoman Jackie Ruiz said.
GET IN LINE Just as SLO County gets its bearings for vaccinating the public against COVID-19, California is set to change things by centralizing vaccine distribution. As SLO County hits its COVID-19 vaccine stride by replacing a first-come, first-serve system with a lottery designed to make things more equitable for those eligible to receive vaccines and a multilingual pilot program to vaccinate and educate underserved essential farmworkers, California introduces a more centralized vaccine distribution system. MyTurn, a state web portal for registering first- and second-dose vaccine appointments, is glitchy with major problems. The county is uncertain how the transition to both MyTurn and Blue Shield s impending takeover of state vaccine distribution will affect its progress.