San Luis Obispo County Public Health officials reported 46 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the county's total to 19,797 confirmed cases as of March 4.
San Luis Obispo County Public Health is moving away from a first-come, first-serve COVID-19 vaccination appointment system to a new lottery-based system a change that officials say will ease stress and ensure more equity in the vaccination process. Instead of announcing the availability of new appointment slots each Thursday, which are getting gobbled up within a few hours, SLO County is instead asking all vaccine-eligible residents to register once on its website at recoverslo.org/vaccines. Then each Thursday, starting March 4, officials will randomly select which people in the larger pool will get scheduled for their first vaccine shot. click to enlarge
San Luis Obispo County Public Health officials reported 53 new COVID-19 cases over three days, bringing the county's total to 19,696 confirmed cases as of March 1.
Central Coast educators, childcare workers start to get vaccinated this week
Christine Miller
and last updated 2021-03-01 21:18:33-05
Some of the first teachers got their COVID-19 vaccines in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties on Monday.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said starting March 1, 10% of vaccines in the state will be set aside for teachers and educators. From there, San Luis Obispo County Public Health officials said 10% of the vaccines they get will be set aside for education as a whole.
The distribution for each district is different and those working in special education are getting priority this week.
and last updated 2021-02-26 00:47:09-05
San Luis Obispo County is moving to a lottery-based system for vaccine appointments in preparation for the rollout of California s My Turn program, which centralizes COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
The county says the lottery process will be more fair and equitable than the previous system.
County Public Health Director Dr. Peggy Borenstein said, âYou register one time. You will remain in our system until you either withdraw or we get you an appointment.â
This means people do not have to keep calling or going online to find available appointments. However, guidelines state that only people who are eligible can sign up.