UpdatedTue, May 25, 2021 at 5:46 pm PT
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San Jose City Councilmember Matt Mahan holds a news briefing on Monday urging the Board of Supervisors to opt into Laura’s Law at their meeting. (Screenshot from Matt Mahan news briefing)
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to implement Laura s Law during a meeting Tuesday, paving the way for court-ordered treatment for people with severe mental illness and a history of hospitalization or incarceration.
Laura s Law, also known as assisted outpatient treatment (AOT), mandates 90 days of mental health treatment for those who have had run-ins with the law and are determined to have symptoms of severe mental illness. The law is intended to be a temporary mechanism and serve as a bridge to recovery, and medication cannot be forced upon a patient.
California s new vaccine rollout program through Blue Shield is threatening to derail efforts to equitably distribute doses in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, county health leaders said.
COVID-19: Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Arrives in Santa Clara County
CBS SF Bay Area 3/9/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS San Francisco
SAN JOSE (CBS SF/BCN) After weeks of waiting, the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine just arrived in Santa Clara County on Monday.
The county received 7,500 doses of the new COVID-19 vaccine, according to public health officials. Additional doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are expected to arrive in Santa Clara County on March 23.
The highly-anticipated Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine only requires one dose, rather than the two doses required by Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines. It has been anxiously awaited by local health officials hoping to boost vaccination rates across the county, especially in hardest hit areas, although it’s not immediately clear where the vaccine doses are headed.
New policy allows seniors to get COVID-19 vaccinations anywhere in Santa Clara County
February 7, 2021
County Health Office Dr. Sara Cody at a press conference Feb. 4 announces the new no wrong door policy for vaccinations in Santa Clara County.
Santa Clara County’s public health officials now say anyone 65 and older can get their vaccine from anywhere in the county.
The county’s new “no wrong door” policy, announced Thursday morning, makes it possible for seniors to get vaccinated regardless of who their normal medical provider is.
“A Kaiser patient can go to the county, a Stanford patient can go to Kaiser, a county patient can go to Stanford (to get vaccinated),” said County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody. “It doesn’t matter where you go, we want you to get vaccinated.”
Being on the other side of the spike is faint reassurance, County Executive Jeff Smith said.
He noted that a well-known projection by the University of Washington found death rates could continue to rise even if the state maintained the regional stay-at home order. Right now we re at about 37,000 deaths so far in the state. But using this projection, if we were to continue with the current protections … we would still almost double and go up to 70,000 deaths at the beginning of May. Since the restrictions have been eased, (the projection) shows (an additional) 10,000 deaths … at the beginning of May. So basically, by easing, we re risking losing 10,000 more Californians.