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“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.
By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue
March 2, 2021
| 6:32 p.m.
While the COVID-19 vaccine supply has been limited in Santa Barbara County and statewide, larger amounts of vaccine doses have started to make their way to the county.
The county received a 22% increase in first doses compared to last week’s allocation, Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.
As of Tuesday, the county has been allocated and received 99,220 doses of the vaccine, according to the county s Community Data Dashboard.
Do-Reynoso said Sunday that the county is receiving about 14,000 doses this week, which is a big boost from the 6,000-per-week amount the county was reporting in January and part of February.