STORY BY GIL RUBINSTEIN AND GARV VIRGINKAR
Santa Clara County will now begin vaccinating all residents age 65 and up regardless of health care provider or insurance.
This latest development comes after county officials just weeks ago expressed frustration with a “chaotic” distribution process, and as the county now approaches 1,500 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago. Individuals over the age of 65 account for nearly 85% of the total deaths in the county, officials noted.
“We are willing and able to distribute the vaccines and we have the infrastructure,” said County Executive Officer Jeff Smith. “However, the big caveat is that we need to get enough vaccines, and the limiting factor is the manufacturing.”
The county is implementing a “no wrong door” approach that allows eligible residents to get vaccinated at any site, whether it be with a private partner such as the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, or a public site such as the recently opened vaccination center at the Mountain View community center.
“We still have scarcity of this vaccine, we still have a limited supply, and frankly we still have a chaotic environment with changing state guidance almost daily,” said County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody.
Eligible residents can schedule an appointment at vax.sccgov.org.
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What are you folks doing? Aren’t these old messages?
On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 2:06 PM Midpeninsula Post wrote:
> Admin posted: ” STORY BY GIL RUBINSTEIN AND GARV VIRGINKAR Santa Clara > County will now begin vaccinating all residents age 65 and up regardless of > health care provider or insurance. This latest development comes after > county officials just weeks ago expressed fru” >
Yes, we previously had all these updates on one post — we’re just separating them into individual ones so we can track statistics better. Sorry for all the notifications!