One year later, Santa Clara County public health officer Dr. Sara Cody reflects on the decision to issue the country s first shelter-in-place order, calling it the easiest choice she has made since the start of the pandemic.
The bot gathers public data from the site, which tends to be the federal state and local sites, and tweets it out. That s when Darwish started noticing a change last week that benefited Los Angeles dramatically.
Luz Pena: So you are saying right now it seems like the bot is identifying at least 500 appointments that are open in LA? How many in the Bay Area?
Disneyland, which remains closed to visitors, is set to host the first of five massive vaccination sites in Orange County.
Santa Clara County has already set up clinics at the fairgrounds expo hall, as well as other locations throughout the county, with plans to double capacity by next week to nearly 7,000 people a day. That number doesn t include vaccinations being performed by private healthcare providers such as Kaiser and Sutter Health. Public health experts say it ll be important for all entities to work together to ensure a timely delivery. It s important to recognize what happened in the past, and what failed, and then come up with concrete steps about what we re going to do going forward to ensure that we don t make the same mistakes again, said Dr. Marcelle Dougan, an assistant professor in the SJSU Dept. of Public Health and Recreation.
Sites for mass vaccinations start opening in CA, Bay Area
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They include Cal Expo in Sacramento, Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and Petco Park in San Diego.
In the Bay Area, two sports stadiums are being considered for mass vaccination sites.
Officials in Alameda County are expected to vote this week about launching a drive-thru vaccine site at an Oakland Coliseum parking lot.
The 49ers sent the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors a letter offering up Levi s Stadium as a site to store and administer vaccines to residents.
On Monday, San Mateo County launched the Bay Area s first mass vaccination clinic.