The county has the third-highest per-capita vaccination administration rate compared to nine other California counties with similar population sizes, trailing only San Francisco and San Mateo counties, according to Sonoma County officials.
To date, 87 percent of the county s residents 75 and older have been received at least one dose and 74 percent are now fully vaccinated. County officials plan to target areas that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic like the Sonoma Valley, where a vaccine clinic opened this week at the La Luz Center to serve Latinx residents. In addition to being grateful for the truly remarkable partnerships with our local health care providers that are making this effort possible, we also want to applaud everyone who has been vaccinated or who has scheduled an appointment, county Supervisor Lynda Hopkins said. We all have to do this together and continue to stay safe.
As April 15 nears and more residents 16 and older look for an appointment for their COVID-19 vaccine, Santa Clara County health officials scramble to make.
Health leaders said even as vaccinations ramp up, testing is still an important weapon in the fight against COVID, especially with new more contagious variants emerging. It allows us to quickly understand if someone is infected and to keep that person from infecting others, Santa Clara County Testing and Vaccine Officer Dr. Marty Fenstersheib said. It also allows us to detect concerning variants and testing is the only way to find a variant.
And without testing its hard to get an accurate picture of the number of infections circulating.
Fenstersheib said even though essential workers may have been vaccinated, he still recommends they get tested frequently as often as once a week. He also said others who have been vaccinated and out in the public should consider getting tested.
It’s a much smoother process at Zuckerberg San Francisco General’s vaccination site on Sunday. There was a long line that stretched down to the street and.
The visit was particularly exciting for Luisa Buado and her team from Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto.
Throughout the pandemic, she has worked to provide access to covid testing, and now vaccinations, to underserved communities and now, she gets some help from Facebook.
“We have to improve equity, we have barrier free vaccine clinics. We make sure they meet the eligibility requirements which have now all been waived except you have to be 18 or older,” Buado said.
The vaccination site at Facebook particularly serves three nearby communities, which are East Palo Alto, and the communities of North Fair Oaks and Belle Haven.