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Dr. Eric Sergienko
Sonora, CA The first shipment of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Tuolumne County yesterday.
Health officials are determining how to disperse the initial hundreds of doses that arrived. State and federal agencies say they should currently be given to people who will have difficulty following up to get a second dose. Interim Tuolumne County Health Officer, Dr. Eric Sergienko says, “It could be anything from people who are being transferred from an acute care hospital to a long-term care facility, it could be our homeless population, it could be migrant workers, our jail population, or anyone who it could be challenging to get the second dose to.”
Aaron Rasmussen, the Tuolumne Lumber Jubilee Board President, was Thursday’s KVML “Newsmaker of the Day”.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4748 is in charge of the Tuolumne Lumber Jubilee. Rasmussen is the Chairman.
Last year, the Tuolumne Lumber Jubilee could not take place according to the Tuolumne County Health Department. Rasmussen was told that “mass gathering events” were not allowed in Tuolumne County due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, one of the exceptions to that rule was for organized protests. So the name of the event was changed to the ‘Tuolumne Lumber Protest’ and it was narrowed down to a one day event.
Get an update from Interim Tuolumne County Health Officer Dr. Eric Sergienko on vaccine distribution, testing issues and transmission rates, including the
Updated COVID-19 vaccine
Update at 6:15 p.m.: Tuolumne County Public Health has issued a written statement to Governor Gavin Newsom’s announcement today that those 65 years and older are now eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine. In the statement health officials state:
“We would like to share with the community that Public Health has approximately 500 doses of vaccine on hand, which is currently being dispensed to those in Phase 1A and we have plans in place to administer the bulk of those 500 by the end of the week. We are working with our healthcare partners to coordinate the continued administration of vaccine according to; State guidelines, the availability of vaccine that Public Health and healthcare providers have on hand, and resources to administer. The