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San Mateo County to hold vaccine clinics in Belle Haven and East Palo Alto for eligible residents
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If last weekâs vaccine rollout to seniors â where phone lines were tied up for hours and online portals crashed â is any indication, getting enough county residents access to the vaccine will be no small feat.â¯
Health leaders at San Mateo County say they must vaccinate 90 percent of the adult population, or around 557,000 people, to achieve herd immunity locally. But even when supply catches up to demand and doses become widely available, many barriers stand in the way of getting enough shots into arms.â¯
The location and timing of a site matters for working residents, language and technology can prevent signups, and so can fear, mistrust and misinformation. Shireen Malekafzali, county senior manager for Health Policy, Planning and Equity, said the hurdles are endless.â¯
San Mateo County public health officials say they re not ready to move beyond the first phase. We feel we are not yet done with phase 1A, so we don t want to move on until we ve really addressed that to the best of our ability as a community, said Dr. Anand Chabra, the section chief for mass vaccination in San Mateo County.
Contra Costa and Santa Clara County both announced that they will allow anyone age 75 and older to get the vaccine. We are not ready to go to 65 and older yet, we re trying to fill up a lake with a garden hose right now, said Daniel Peddycord, Public Health Director for Contra Costa County.
The county also sought to perform at least 16 neighborhood testing events per month and hosted 81 in November. The most recent reports show that people who tested positive for COVID-19 were contacted by contact tracers within one day 82% of the time, and a third of contact tracers were bilingual, slightly under the 40% goal.
County health workers also exceeded the goals set for helping people who test positive for COVID-19 but may have a hard time isolating safely. They have a team of case managers, all of whom are bilingual, working to connect people with housing, food, health coverage or other county support programs, like rent assistance, landlord assistance or immigrant relief funds. In November, the case managers made 622 referrals to service agencies helping meet these needs, well in excess of the stated goal of more than 250. The two cities with the largest number of referrals were Redwood City and East Palo Alto, according to the report.
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