Following the reflection, the board heard from Colleen Chawla, director of the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, who provided some reasons for more optimism.
Nearly 15 percent of the Alameda County population has been fully vaccinated from COVID-19 and daily case rates are going down, she said.
Over the past 10 days, 60 to 130 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. That s down from the peak of 1,275 cases reported on Jan. 7.
About 2 million tests for the coronavirus have been completed and nearly 600,000 doses of the vaccine administered, Chawla said. But more work is needed in the Black community around vaccinations, according to Chawla.
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ByKeith Burbank,Bay City News Service
The surge in COVID-19 cases in Alameda County is receding, a health official told county lawmakers Tuesday afternoon.
The announcement was made in a weekly update to the Board of Supervisors at their regularly scheduled meeting in Oakland.
The daily number of reported cases in the county dropped dramatically since peaking January 7 at 1,313. On Monday, only 79 cases were reported, according to the county’s data dashboard.
“Newly reported cases have stabilized in recent days,” Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Nicholas Moss said.
His words come just a day after California Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted the state-imposed stay-at-home order, sending Alameda County and the Bay Area, back to the purple tier in the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy.
Newly reported cases have stabilized in recent days, Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Nicholas Moss said.
His words come just a day after California Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted the state-imposed stay-at-home order, sending Alameda County and the Bay Area, back to the purple tier in the state s Blueprint for a Safer Economy.
The purple tier is the most restrictive tier for economic activity, but it allows more activities than the stay-at-home order the region had been under.
Moss said Tuesday that he s in agreement that Alameda County should be in the purple tier. He was also optimistic. We have the potential to move to the red tier in a matter of weeks, he said.
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Licensed vocational nurse Aaron Wu, right, gives Dr. James Reynolds the first of two Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations at Seton Medical Center during the coronavirus pandemic in Daly City, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020.
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California is facing a serious supply-and-demand problem as it attempts to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to the state’s nearly 40 million residents. While people anxiously await their turn to receive a shot, counties are scrambling to figure out when more vaccines will be available and how they can distribute them quickly and safely.
Governor Gavin Newsom has publicly acknowledged that the rollout is happening more slowly than expected, due to hold-ups with supply from the federal government, the paperwork necessary to certify doctors to give the vaccine and confusion around whether counties can vaccinate multiple priority groups at once.