Marc Yellin stood proudly at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Dominican Hospital's new emergency department more than 30 years ago, his equally shiny and new 3-day-old daughter Rachelle swaddled under his suit jacket.
Santa Cruz County Deputy Health Officer Dr. David Ghilarducci told the Sentinel that four of the county's seven nursing homes were experiencing COVID outbreaks as of Tuesday, meaning each had three or more infections at once. He added that, tentatively, five deaths had been reported across the seven facilities in the past two weeks, though county officials are still waiting for death certificates to come through that confirm the official cause.
Some Santa Cruz Co. health care workers wary about taking rushed vaccine Share Updated: 8:09 PM PST Dec 10, 2020 Share Updated: 8:09 PM PST Dec 10, 2020
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Show Transcript GOOD EVENING EVERYONE I M ERIN CLARK. DAN GREEN IS OFF TONIGHT. WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH THE U-S A BIG STEP CLOSER TO APPROVING A COVID-19 VACCINE. AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE F-D- A ENDORSES PFIZER S VACCINE. THE F-D-A IS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW THAT RECOMMENDATION. MILLIONS OF DOSES WILL THEN IMMEDIATELY BE SHIPPED AROUND THE COUNTRY. NEARLY TWO- THOUSAND DOSES SHOULD ARRIVE IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY NEXT WEEK. THE COUNTY IS ALSO EXPECTING 28- HUNDRED DOSES OF THE MODERNA VACCINE BY THE END OF THIS MONTH. BUT AS ACTION NEWS EIGHT REPORTER PHIL GOMEZ EXPLAINS SOME HEALTH CARE WORKERS AREN T READY TO TAKE IT. IT SHOULD BE POINTED OUT THAT AT THE START THE VACCINE WILL BE RELEASED IN PHASES TO A SELECT GROUP OF PEOPLE WATSONVILLE AND DOMINICAN HOSPIT