SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Doctors are calling it big news at Marian Regional Medical Center.
They said the more people can get vaccinated, the faster we can get past the pandemic.
The announcement from the FDA on Monday means kids down to age 12 could soon get receive a vaccine.
Doctors believe this is an important step forward, because the virus continues to circulate in young people.
Even though you don’t see the same hospitalizations and severe illness rates in children, doctors said it still gives the virus more opportunity to mutate. This pool of patients with the virus is still circulating, giving it additional opportunity to mutate and additional variants to come and emerge. We would suggest following the CDC s recommendations and getting these young people vaccinated. It’s always great news to have more people eligible to be vaccinated, said Dr. Scott Robertson at Marian Regional Medical Center.
California aligns mask guidelines with CDC
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Mask wearing is slowly becoming a thing of the past for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The CDC and the State of California have recently updated their guidelines in the past week, allowing those inoculated to go without a mask in public more often.
If you are vaccinated, you are not required to wear a face mask at small gatherings both indoors and outdoors, but state health experts say unvaccinated people should.
âWhat [the updated guidelines] really do though is to encourage people to get fully vaccinated because only when everybody has been fully vaccinated can we dispense of masks altogether,â said Dr. Chuck Merrill, Chief Medical Officer at Marian Regional Medical Center.
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A third person with minor injuries was trapped in the wreckage of the Toyota Prius, and required major extrication.
The gravel truck spilled its load onto the roadway, and clean-up crews were dispatched to the scene.
An urban heavy search and rescue vehicle unit from the city of Santa Maria was called in to assist on the incident.
Additional details were not immediately available.
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Marian Regional Medical Center: Doctors shed light on Johnson and Johnson vaccine concerns
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - After the CDC has put a pause on the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, many are still concerned, especially if you received the vaccine in the last few weeks.
Doctors at Marian Regional Medical Center want local residents to understand that this pause is only precautionary, and the vaccine is still safe.
The pause was only made due to to an extraordinarily small risk of blood clots in a subset of the population.
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