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Del Norte COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Lags Behind State Average Due To Diminished Demand
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Del Norte’s case count seems to have dropped, but that doesn’t mean the county will escape stricter COVID-19 restrictions.
However, Public Health Officer Dr. Warren Rehwaldt said he was ready to announce on the radio Thursday that he was “99 percent sure we’re going to drop” to the Purple Tier, but a bulletin from the California Department of Public Health made him change his mind.
“They’re making it a little harder to backslide,” Rehwaldt told the
Wild Rivers Outpost on Friday. “You have to have a worrisome case rate and a worrisome test positivity rate, and you have to have a hospitalization that is worrisome. They didn’t put a lot of numbers to this; they just changed it as a case by case basis.”
Del Norte County has expanded its COVID-19 eligibility as case rates tick up across the county.
On the vaccine front, county officials on April 1 expanded the group eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines to include anyone over 16, in the face of a drop off in demand at the countyâs vaccination sites.
The move â ahead of the April 15 date for that group to become eligible in all California counties â means vaccine administration sites can offer Johnson & Johnson and Moderna doses to anyone 18 and older and the Pfizer vaccine to anyone 16 or older, regardless their health conditions or other factors.
âAs a reminder, all these vaccines work very well, and the basic rule is to get the vaccine that is easiest for you to get access, too,â wrote Public Health Officer Dr. Warren Rehwaldt in a release. âAt this point, there should be no reason for anyone to not get a vaccine of some sort, if so desired.â
Even as California prepares to expand vaccine eligibility on April 15 to all residents age 16 and up, the state has managed to inoculate only about half of its senior population the 65-and-older target group deemed most vulnerable to death and serious illness in the pandemic.
That’s about average compared with other states not nearly as high as places like South Dakota, where nearly 74% of seniors are fully vaccinated, but not as far behind as Hawaii, which has reached 44%. The data, current as of Tuesday, does not include seniors who have received only the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines.
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