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- Jan 14, 2018
More bullshit from the county I live in. Have no idea how the county "health director" keeps his job. He must have something on the county "board of supervisors". Most incompetent fuck I have seen in years.
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE
January 20, 2021, 1:48 p.m.
COUNTY HAS MORE VACCINE BUT STILL NOT ENOUGH TO EXPAND INOCULATIONS
• 4.1 million doses in California; Monterey County has 31,525
We've all heard them. Around the country, and even in other parts of California, reports are coming in of people who aren't in the top tiers of eligibility getting their first shots of the coronavirus vaccines. Here in Monterey County, however, more than a month after the first vaccines arrived, jabs are still limited to health care workers and seniors in long-term care facilities.
Things are looking up a bit, though. After more than a week with no increase in the amount of vaccine allocated to Monterey County, this morning health officer Dr. Ed Moreno said the number of doses in the county had increased to 31,525 — an improvement, but still not enough, he said, for people 75 and over to start getting inoculated, much less 65-and-overs or the general public.
It also doesn't bring the county up to parity with other parts of the state where vaccine allocations are concerned. Monterey County, with 1.15 percent of the state's population, has only gotten .77 percent of the state's 4,112,400 doses, according to data from the California Department of Public Health.
Moreno said he doesn't know if his office was asking for more vaccine. “I’ll have to go back and check with our planning team to see if we have done that," he said during a conference call with reporters today. (Just what does this fuck do for his $350,000/year besides fuck with people? - JS)
Moreno also could provide no figure for the number of vaccines administered in the county. Statewide, about 1.5 million shots have been given, according to the CDPH.
Once the vaccine supply improves, the infrastructure is in place to start inoculating people en masse, another county official said.
Dr. Caroline Kennedy, medical director for the Monterey County Health Department Clinic Services, which operates 10 clinics in Salinas and Seaside for those who can’t pay, said the clinics’ electronic medical record program allows staff to track exactly who needs to be immunized when. The clinics are on hold, though, until the county gets enough vaccine doses to immunize people in subsequent tiers.
“It takes about 30 seconds to run” a report on the program “to find out who and what age needs the vaccine and who has received the first dose and who hasn’t received the second dose,” Kennedy said. “We do have about 20,000 patients 16 and older who would qualify for the vaccine. We have about 850 over the age of 75.”
While the clinic is still awaiting three ultra-low temperature freezers to store the Pfizer vaccine, which another official said should come in the first week of February, Kennedy said it would not take her staff long to start administering the vaccine at “high volume,” once a larger supply arrives.(Yeah, maybe six months or so. - JS)
“Just like the rest of the public, we are really waiting for more vaccine,” she said.
NEW INFECTIONS DECLINE — AT LEAST, IT LOOKS THAT WAY
Data reporting on the number of coronavirus infections in Monterey County continues to be very erratic, but it does seem that the number of new infections has slowed. Over the last week, the county health department said it had confirmed 2,392 additional cases, whereas 3,551 cases were confirmed during the week ending January 13, with 3,232 new cases for the week ending Jan. 6. (Please see the "Cases by Zip Code" table below for the latest data for your community.)
Hospitalizations of patients with coronavirus infections in the county also declined. The latest total is 183, the CDPH said, down from 217 on Jan. 15, though the number of Covid-19 patients in the county's ICUs increased to 30 and the number of available ICU beds fell to 12. Community Hospital says it has 29 coronavirus-positive inpatients, which is a significant decline from recent totals. Eight of those patients are in the ICU, CHOMP said.
For the latest official information on local vaccination availability, click here. The CDPH vaccination page is here. The CDC's nationwide vaccine page can be found here. To review the CDC-recommended tiers for vaccination priority, click here. CHOMP has a very useful page with detailed information about the vaccines, which you can find here.
To see the latest county health department data on the local coronavirus epidemic, click here. For the most up-to-date info from the CDPH, click here. And below, you can also find our latest charts and tables about the status of the epidemic in Monterey County, including cases by zip code.
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE
January 20, 2021, 1:48 p.m.
COUNTY HAS MORE VACCINE BUT STILL NOT ENOUGH TO EXPAND INOCULATIONS
• 4.1 million doses in California; Monterey County has 31,525
We've all heard them. Around the country, and even in other parts of California, reports are coming in of people who aren't in the top tiers of eligibility getting their first shots of the coronavirus vaccines. Here in Monterey County, however, more than a month after the first vaccines arrived, jabs are still limited to health care workers and seniors in long-term care facilities.
Things are looking up a bit, though. After more than a week with no increase in the amount of vaccine allocated to Monterey County, this morning health officer Dr. Ed Moreno said the number of doses in the county had increased to 31,525 — an improvement, but still not enough, he said, for people 75 and over to start getting inoculated, much less 65-and-overs or the general public.
It also doesn't bring the county up to parity with other parts of the state where vaccine allocations are concerned. Monterey County, with 1.15 percent of the state's population, has only gotten .77 percent of the state's 4,112,400 doses, according to data from the California Department of Public Health.
Moreno said he doesn't know if his office was asking for more vaccine. “I’ll have to go back and check with our planning team to see if we have done that," he said during a conference call with reporters today. (Just what does this fuck do for his $350,000/year besides fuck with people? - JS)
Moreno also could provide no figure for the number of vaccines administered in the county. Statewide, about 1.5 million shots have been given, according to the CDPH.
Once the vaccine supply improves, the infrastructure is in place to start inoculating people en masse, another county official said.
Dr. Caroline Kennedy, medical director for the Monterey County Health Department Clinic Services, which operates 10 clinics in Salinas and Seaside for those who can’t pay, said the clinics’ electronic medical record program allows staff to track exactly who needs to be immunized when. The clinics are on hold, though, until the county gets enough vaccine doses to immunize people in subsequent tiers.
“It takes about 30 seconds to run” a report on the program “to find out who and what age needs the vaccine and who has received the first dose and who hasn’t received the second dose,” Kennedy said. “We do have about 20,000 patients 16 and older who would qualify for the vaccine. We have about 850 over the age of 75.”
While the clinic is still awaiting three ultra-low temperature freezers to store the Pfizer vaccine, which another official said should come in the first week of February, Kennedy said it would not take her staff long to start administering the vaccine at “high volume,” once a larger supply arrives.(Yeah, maybe six months or so. - JS)
“Just like the rest of the public, we are really waiting for more vaccine,” she said.
NEW INFECTIONS DECLINE — AT LEAST, IT LOOKS THAT WAY
Data reporting on the number of coronavirus infections in Monterey County continues to be very erratic, but it does seem that the number of new infections has slowed. Over the last week, the county health department said it had confirmed 2,392 additional cases, whereas 3,551 cases were confirmed during the week ending January 13, with 3,232 new cases for the week ending Jan. 6. (Please see the "Cases by Zip Code" table below for the latest data for your community.)
Hospitalizations of patients with coronavirus infections in the county also declined. The latest total is 183, the CDPH said, down from 217 on Jan. 15, though the number of Covid-19 patients in the county's ICUs increased to 30 and the number of available ICU beds fell to 12. Community Hospital says it has 29 coronavirus-positive inpatients, which is a significant decline from recent totals. Eight of those patients are in the ICU, CHOMP said.
For the latest official information on local vaccination availability, click here. The CDPH vaccination page is here. The CDC's nationwide vaccine page can be found here. To review the CDC-recommended tiers for vaccination priority, click here. CHOMP has a very useful page with detailed information about the vaccines, which you can find here.
To see the latest county health department data on the local coronavirus epidemic, click here. For the most up-to-date info from the CDPH, click here. And below, you can also find our latest charts and tables about the status of the epidemic in Monterey County, including cases by zip code.
