Mad River Community Hospital Occupational Health Supervisor Yolanda Stevens received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 15 from Tina Wood, nurse manager of Critical Care Services.
As local case numbers continued to soar, Humboldt County Public Health, with much hope and fanfare, distributed the first local doses of the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine last week in what officials predict will begin a steady, if slow, march out of this pandemic.
But many questions about the vaccine and how it will be distributed locally remain. This has never been done before, said Humboldt County Health Officer Ian Hoffman. This is medical history. We are literally building the ship as we sail it.
Moorehead-Two Feathers Native American Family Services Executive Director Virgil Moorehead presents during the roundtable. Speaking at a virtual roundtable called to discuss the systemic failures of local school districts to help Native students succeed, as detailed in a recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Humboldt State University Native American Studies Chair Cutcha Risling Baldy said it largely comes down to curriculums that disempower Native youth. Baldy, who is of Karuk, Hupa and Yurok decent and a
Journal contributor, said the California Mission Project and Gold Rush lessons erase the history of California s attempted genocide on Native people, noting that the state legalized the enslavement of Native people and even offered bounties for killing them.