–The County of San Luis Obispo Public Health Department has confirmed seven additional cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in San Luis Obispo County. SLO County has added 659 new cases of COVID-19 over the last week with 21 residents in the hospital, including 8 people in the intensive care unit. This brings the 14-day daily case average to 72, a doubling of the 14-day average from early December.
Local nurses are helping new and expectant mothers with any needs they may have and helping them to find inner strength all as part of three nurse home visiting programs provided for free to qualifying families by the County of San Luis Obispo Public Health.
The San Luis Coastal Unified School District already distributed around 9,000 take-home kits this week after being selected to participate in a state pilot program.