Farmworker advocates call for vaccination priority
With COVID-19 vaccines still in short supply, reprioritizing who gets them and when becomes, as Yolo County’s health officer said Tuesday, “a zero sum game.”
“Whenever you expand eligibility for one group, you take away vaccines from another group,” Dr. Aimee Sisson told the Board of Supervisors.
Up until last week, there was no game involved the state was requiring counties to prioritize residents 65 and older before moving on to the rest of the Phase 1B, Tier 1 cohort: essential workers in food and agriculture, education and childcare, and emergency services.
For the last few weeks, Yolo County has been doing exactly that: using its limited allotments of doses to vaccinate seniors throughout the county.
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Orange County Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to rename a Sheriff’s Department training facility after controversial former Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, who died of breast cancer earlier this month.
The Katella Training Facility in Orange will now be known as the “Sandra Hutchens Regional Law Enforcement Training Center.”
Supervisors approved the item after each praised Hutchens for her decadelong term as sheriff.
“She came into the department at a very difficult time,” said Supervisor Don Wagner. “She restored honor, not to the badge, not to the department, because the men and women of the department had never lost it under prior leadership, but she did restore it to leadership.”
Elsewhere this week, you have been able to read a comprehensive recap of the top news stories of 2020 as compiled by the expert staff of The Davis Enterprise. Unfortunately, this effort led to several angry tweets from President Trump because not a single story reported that he won November’s election “by a lot.”
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