COVID-19 cases are going down in San Francisco, but doctors are not letting their guard down. There is concern as new variants of the virus have been spotted across the globe, causing a deadly spread. Placer County Public Health and the Placer County Sheriff-Coroner Division were recently notified of the death of an individual who tested positive for COVID-19 in late December.
The individual was administered a COVID-19 vaccine several hours before their death on January 21st, 2021. The vaccine was not administered by Placer County Public Health. There are multiple local, state, and federal agencies actively investigating this case; any reports surrounding the cause of death are premature, pending the outcome of the investigation. Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased. VO: The CDC published this graph revealing which of the 10 people who had an allergic reaction to the vaccine had previous allergies.
COVID-19 cases are going down in San Francisco, but doctors are not letting their guard down. There is concern as new variants of the virus have been spotted across the globe, causing a deadly spread.
Luz Pena: Do you project that as the virus continues to mutate, those vaccines will also have to change?
Dr. Chiu: There will potentially be an emergence of variance that will require the vaccine to be modified and perhaps a new vaccine will have to be created and tested for use against these new variances.
Luz Pena: How would you compare the variant that was found here in California to the one found in the U.K.?
The race to vaccinate has been a slow roll out across the Bay Area and the state but there have been some bright spots. An East Bay physician who s tired of waiting hosted a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Lafayette.
Their software and lab results are showing COVID cases surging in underprivileged communities across the state.
Marin County is also using this company for mobile testing. Laraki says that s one of the strategies they want for vaccine distribution. It s really good that we are providing these massive vaccinating sites. I think that will serve us for half of the population. The other half that is the most vulnerable one, we need to take vaccination to them the same way we did for testing, said Laraki.
MARIN, Calif. (KGO) As COVID-19 cases surge, Bay Area firefighters are getting deployed to hospitals across the state.
Bob Craft, a firefighter paramedic from the Central Marin Fire Department is working the nightshift. Two hours into his shift, he intubated a patient in the emergency department who arrived to the hospital with stroke like symptoms and prepped a COVID-19 patient for their flip onto their stomach for the rest of the night. It s the gamut from really regular people coming to the emergency department to people on ventilators on the ICU who are on the COVID ward, said craft.