City of Bloomington, Indiana COVID-19, 4 Jan 2021

Previous Meeting Next Meeting

⏯

youtube image

►

From YouTube: COVID-19 Update to Community on January 4, 2021

Description

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi, this is Mayor John Hamilton. It's Monday, January 4th, 2021. Happy new year to you all. First message to the public this new year. Just quickly want to give you some updates at closed the year with thanks to everybody. I'll extend that again for all the great work, collaborative work, over the last nine, 10 months dealing with the pandemic. We are not out of the woods. There are very serious community spreads still going on. We're losing an average of one person to death a day in the County, and we see the incredibly important need to continue to wear masks, physically distance, wash your hands. Don't share air with people that you are not in your household.

I did want to give an update on the vaccines because that's certainly something we're looking forward to this year. Every Friday afternoon, by the way, we will continue the press conferences to update you on that. The most recent information I have is from Wednesday, December 30th, at which point we had received locally over 7,000 doses of vaccine. 3000 of the Pfizer and 4,400 of the Moderna. All the Pfizer vaccines have been given. The IU Health is giving over 500 shots a day at their facility downtown, and people are getting their schedule for that. We've had firefighters getting. Of course, it's focused on frontline workers, healthcare workers right now, and that will continue.

We will update the community regularly on how many vaccine doses we've received, and how many have been given to the public as we do. We'll also keep you informed about who is prioritized in group 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, etc., as we try following the public health guidelines set by the state. To make sure that we get the vaccines to those who need them most, who can do the best to help knock down this pandemic. So watch out for that. Again, know that more than 500 shots a day are happening right in our community, and we'll continue to keep you updated about that. That is ultimately how we're going to knockdown. This pandemic is getting most of us vaccinated.

Please when it's your turn, do get vaccinated. I will get vaccinated when it's my turn. And that's how we're going to knock this down. In the meantime, pay attention to the news, keep watching for what's coming at us. We do very much hope that 2021 will be the year that we can get everyone vaccinated, and stem the tide on this. In the meantime, though, again, be careful. Take care of each other by wearing a mask, physically distancing, washing hands. Don't go to work if you're sick. Don't share air with people not in your household.

So, welcome to 2021. We turned the page to a new year. We still have a lot of the same challenges, and we can talk more about those. If you have questions, reach out. But the vaccine is here. That's two of them are here. That's a very good thing. We're getting hundreds of people vaccinated every day, and that's a very good thing. So keep plugging, hang in there. Keep taking care of yourself and our community the way you do, and I'll be giving you updates regularly.

A

Hi, this is mayor john hamilton, it's monday january 4th 2021 uh happy new year to you all first message to the public this new year. Just quickly want to give you some updates. um I close the ears with thanks to everybody. I'll extend that again for all the great work uh collaborative work over the last nine ten months dealing with the pandemic.

A

We, we are not out of the woods. They're very serious community spreads still going on we're losing an average of one person to death a day in the county, and we see the incredibly important need to continue to wear, masks physically distance wash your hands. Don't share air with people that you are not in your household.

A

I did want to give an update on the vaccines, because that's certainly something we're looking forward to this year every friday afternoon. By the way, we will continue the press conferences to update you on that. The most recent information I have is from wednesday december 30th, at which point we had received locally over 7 000 doses of vaccine 3, 000 of the pfizer and 4400 of the moderna.

A

All the pfizer vaccines have been given the iu health is giving over 500 shots a day at their facility. Downtown and people are getting this schedule for that. We've had firefighters getting. Of course, it's focused on frontline workers, healthcare workers right now, and that will continue.

A

We will update the community regularly on how many vaccine doses we've received and how many have been given to the public, as we do we'll also keep you informed about who is prioritized in group, 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, etc, as we try following the public health guidelines set by the state to make sure that we get the vaccines to those who need them most.

A

Who can do the best to help knock down this pandemic, so watch out for that again know that more than 500 shots a day are happening right in our community and we'll continue to keep you updated about that. That is ultimately how we're going to knock down this pandemic is getting most of us vaccinated. Please, when it's your turn do get vaccinated. I will get vaccinated when it's my turn and that's how we're going to knock this down. In the meantime, pay attention to the news keep watching for what's coming at us.

A

We do very much hope that 2021 will be the year that we are able to get everyone vaccinated and to stem the tide on this. In the meantime, though, again be careful, take care of each other by wearing a mask physically distancing, washing hands, don't go to work if you're sick, don't share hair with people, not in your household, so welcome to 2021.

A

We turn the page to a new year. We still have a lot of the same challenges and we can talk more about those if you have questions reach out, but the the vaccine is here, that's two of them are here: that's a very good thing: we're getting hundreds of people vaccinated every day and that's a very good thing, so keep plugging hang in there keep taking care of yourself and our community the way you do and I'll be giving you updates.

A