The latest blah, blah, blah from the county I live in.
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE
January 30, 2021, 4:10 p.m.
COUNTY'S CORONAVIRUS CASES INCREASE BUT HOSPITALIZATIONS FALL
• Nothing new since Monday about vaccination availability
Today the Monterey County health department reported 385 new cases of coronavirus among county residents, bringing the total for the week to 2,140 — an increase of 15 percent over the 1,867 recorded during the week ending January 23.
Current hospitalizations of people with the virus at the county's four hospitals, however, were down to 150 today after being 171 last Saturday, according to the California Department of Health, which also reported 25 Covid-19 fatalities among Monterey County residents this week. Because the epidemic is still widespread here, the county remains in the
Purple Tier under the governor's economic shutdown scheme.
Of this week's 2,140 new cases, 1,583 were in Salinas and the Salinas Valley, while 325 were in the Monterey Peninsula: 140 in Seaside, 82 in Marina, 55 in Monterey, 19 in Pacific Grove, 13 in Carmel area (93923), six in Big Sur, five in Carmel Valley, three in Pebble Beach, none in Carmel-by-the-Sea, and two in an unspecified location.
No new information about vaccine availability in Monterey County has been released by the health department. Health care workers, emergency responders, senior care facility residents and people 75 and older are still the only groups eligible for shots, and the
website to register is the same. If everything on that site shows "full," the advice is to keep checking. ("They" can take my vaccination and stick it up their ass. I'm not "checking" shit. They can go bite my crank. - JS)