Kern County Public Health to use local fairgrounds as mass vaccination site
Posted at 5:49 PM, Jan 19, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-19 21:44:18-05
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. â The Kern County Public Health Department announced they ll be using the local fairgrounds as a mass vaccination site for residents.
Kern County s COVID-19 contact tracers are actively working to contact people throughout the county who have tested positive for COVID-19. But that s not the only support system here at the Kern County fairgrounds. Soon it will also serve as a mass vaccination site.
Tom Beckett, technology services manager of Kern County Public Health says the answer to getting back to normal is vaccination, right? To get us to a point where life can return to what we are all wanting. So, it s super important, the more people that get vaccinated the quicker that we can get back to that.
COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Kern County
For two days in a row, Kern County has seen more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 each day. On Wednesday Kern County Public Health reported 1,014 new cases of the virus. That puts the county at more than 47,000 cases of COVID-19.
and last updated 2020-12-09 22:57:27-05
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) â For two days in a row, Kern County has seen more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 each day. On Wednesday Kern County Public Health reported 1,014 new cases of the virus. That puts the county at more than 47,000 cases of COVID-19.
In recent weeks cases have gone up rapidly since Thanksgiving and Halloween.