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Separately, Marian Regional Medical Center receives doses as part of the Dignity Health system, and the CVS and Walgreens pharmacies receive doses directly from manufacturers to help vaccinate people who live in skilled-nursing and assisted-living communities.
In mid-February, the state will start using Blue Shield of California to oversee statewide vaccine distribution, rather than having each county manage its own process, Do-Reynoso said.
COVID-19-Related Deaths Pass 300 in Santa Barbara County
Do-Reynoso said that 67 deaths have been reported in the past two weeks, and another five deaths were reported later on Tuesday.
The five residents were all older than age 70. Two of them lived in Lompoc, two lived in Santa Maria and one lived in the unincorporated North County, according to Public Health.
CBS News
From 2018: Betsy DeVos, the lightning rod secretary of education, says she s more misunderstood than anything. 2021 Jan 08
On Thursday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned in response to the riot at the Capitol earlier in the week. In her resignation letter to President Trump, DeVos said that there is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me. Lesley Stahl interviewed Secretary DeVos a year into her tenure. The following is the transcript from Secretary of Education, which originally aired March 11, 2018.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is a devout Christian grandmother from Michigan who has spent most of her life trying to improve the quality of education for poor kids. So how in the world did she become one of the most hated members of the Trump Cabinet?
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Regarding the Dec. 15 article, “Santa Barbara City Council Puts Temporary Stop to Changes at Flamingo Mobile Home Park,” the council’s decision to enact an emergency moratorium that prohibits the owners of the Flamingo Mobile Home Park to allow people of all ages to reside there raised two interesting points.
First, Councilman Eric Friedman’s comment that the owner’s intent to allow all ages to live in the park is somehow discriminatory to seniors is, to use his own words, a non sequitur.
If the seniors were to be
disallowed to live there, then that would be discriminatory. But to expand eligibility to all ages is definitely not discriminatory. If anything is discriminatory, the current situation discriminates against nonseniors.