‘We Have An Opportunity’: Minority Groups Prioritized In New COVID-19 Vaccine Trial At UC Davis Health
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A third vaccine is being tested in Northern California but UC Davis Health officials are putting out a special call for specific participants. They want minority groups hit hardest by COVID-19 to participate, including the Latino community, Native Americans and African Americans.
Virginia Hedrick, Executive Director for the Consortium for Urban Indian Health, has made it her mission to raise awareness about the COVID-19 impact on the Native American community since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, she’s finding hope with a new vaccine in the works called Norovax, as UC Davis Health wants to focus on Native Americans.
Health Department: 356,650 Coronavirus Vaccine Doses Delivered to Washington, But Most Have Yet to Find an Arm
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Health department: 356,650 coronavirus vaccine doses delivered to Washington state, but most have yet to find an arm
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Published: December 31, 2020, 8:02am
Share: A vial with the COVID-19 vaccine is pictured at PeaceHealth Urgent Care Memorial on Tuesday morning, December 22, 2020. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian)
The federal government has delivered 356,650 doses of vaccine to Washington state, but only a fraction of those doses have been used, according to data from the state health department.
Less than 20% of the distribution 59,491 doses had been administered, the state Department of Health said Wednesday morning. The department’s immunization data reporting lags by about three days.
The health department estimates that about 500,000 people qualify for vaccination in the top priority group, named 1A, which includes high-risk workers in health care, first responders and residents of long-term care facilities.
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The new mayor of Delano, Bryan Osorio Trujillo, took office on Dec. 7. Osorio, who majored in political science and cognitive science, said he always intended to return to his hometown after graduation to serve in government or to work at a nonprofit.
Editor s note: This is a first-person narrative from young UC Berkeley alum Bryan Osorio Trujillo, the new mayor of Delano, who took office on Dec. 7.
My parents are Mexican immigrants who came to California as teenagers. Back in Mexico, they had lived in poverty within their home states Dad is from Guerrero; Mom is from Oaxaca. They met working at a Taco Bell in Santa Ana and have worked in the fast-food industry for many years. I was born in Garden Grove, and we moved to Delano when I was 7. My family likes to stick close, so I have two aunts in Delano, as well.