San Jose Earthquakes to assist Bay Area county with vaccine drive
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May 22, 2021; San Jose, California, USA; MLS Major League Soccer; Sporting Kansas City vs. San Jose Earthquakes at PayPal Park. Santa Clara county has enlisted the team to assist with a vaccine drive at Overfelt High School, offering prizes such as signed jerseys.Robert Edwards/KLC fotos
By Jana Kadah
Bay City News Service
Santa Clara County has a new goal to vaccinate 85 percent of its eligible population by June 15, so it has teamed up with the San Jose Earthquakes to encourage the remaining quarter to get inoculated.
We re here today to support the county, as we continue to push for more people to get vaccinated and get more access to vaccinations, Earthquakes Executive Vice President Jed Mettee said at a Monday news conference at PayPal Park. We re excited to do so, so we can bring the community back together and also bring a full stadium capacity, which we re planning to do, hopefully in the summer.
Defender Oswaldo Alanis, a famous Mexican soccer player who joined the Quakes in 2020, echoed the sentiment.
Alanis shared that in many different countries, vaccines are not widely available like they are in Santa Clara County, so residents should take advantage of this opportunity.
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El Camino Health registered nurse Lylin Legaspi gives Renee Rios the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at an El Camino Health vaccination site in Sunnyvale on April 2, 2021. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
A survey of Santa Clara County residents to understand their attitudes toward the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines could help health officials understand what might prevent the remaining roughly 25% of adult residents from getting vaccinated or completing their second dose.
The EMC Research survey of 1,000 county residents, the fifth conducted since May 2020, found that optimism has rebounded since the winter infection surge, and concerns related to COVID-19 have waned. About 74% of respondents said they have been either fully or partially vaccinated and 9% said they are interested in being vaccinated soon. But the remainder about 16% exp