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Separately, Marian Regional Medical Center receives doses as part of the Dignity Health system, and the CVS and Walgreens pharmacies receive doses directly from manufacturers to help vaccinate people who live in skilled-nursing and assisted-living communities.
In mid-February, the state will start using Blue Shield of California to oversee statewide vaccine distribution, rather than having each county manage its own process, Do-Reynoso said.
COVID-19-Related Deaths Pass 300 in Santa Barbara County
Do-Reynoso said that 67 deaths have been reported in the past two weeks, and another five deaths were reported later on Tuesday.
The five residents were all older than age 70. Two of them lived in Lompoc, two lived in Santa Maria and one lived in the unincorporated North County, according to Public Health.
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The online data dashboard notes that the number of deaths will change as additional cases are reported.
Deaths are reported when a death certificate is processed listing COVID-19 as a cause or a significant condition, according to the county Public Health Department. The process can take several days and up to two months to finalize if pending verification by the county Coroner’s Bureau, a division of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department.
Of the county’s 303 COVID-19-related deaths, 124 residents lived in Santa Maria, 55 in Santa Barbara, 27 in Lompoc, 20 in Goleta, 19 in Orcutt, 17 in the regions of the North County unincorporated area, 14 in the Santa Ynez Valley, 11 in the Montecito-Summerland-Carpinteria area, 10 in the unincorporated area of the Goleta Valley and Gaviota, four in the Lompoc federal prison complex, and one in Isla Vista. One death is pending the geographic area.
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“The local public health department does not have oversight of this process,” county disaster preparedness manager Jan Koegler told Noozhawk via email. “As a supplement to this process, county public health has offered to vaccinate ASL (assisted-living facilities) workers and residents who can come to the vaccination PODs (points of distribution).”
At least 190 facilities in Santa Barbara County are enrolled in the federal pharmacy partnership program, Koegler said Friday.
“We are working with the facilities to obtain data on when they are scheduled to receive their first doses through the partnership,” Koegler said. “From the data we have collected so far, we calculate that 3,453 residents and staff have received at least a first dose. This number does not take into account how many have been vaccinated through a PHD (public health department), vaccine clinic or by another health care provider.”
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