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Description
The County of Santa Clara Health System and several other providers will begin providing vaccinations to all county residents age 65 and older regardless of their healthcare or insurance.
Recorded February 4, 2021.
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B
Good
morning,
I'm
hilary
armstrong,
a
public
information
officer
with
the
county
of
santa
clara,
thank
you
for
being
with
us
here
today,
as
we
announce
a
no
wrong
door
policy
for
vaccinating
residents
over
the
age
of
65
throughout
sites
at
santa
clara
county
joining
us.
Today
we
have
dr
sarah
cody
health
officer
and
director
of
public
health
for
the
county
of
santa
clara
supervisor,
joe
simidian,
with
district
5
of
the
board
of
supervisors
for
the
county
of
santa
clara
and
dr
jeff
smith,
county
executive,
with
the
st
county
of
santa
clara.
B
Our
speakers
will
repeat
the
questions
into
the
microphone
for
our
facebook
live
audience.
Following
the
conclusion
of
the
english
and
asl
portion
of
the
press
conference,
we
will
have
statements
from
the
podium
in
spanish,
vietnamese,
chinese
and
tagalog.
Thank
you
very
much
and
with
that
I
will
introduce
dr
sarah
cody.
C
Good
morning,
everyone
and
thank
you
for
being
here.
As
always,
this
is
a
ritual
that
we've
now
been
involved
with
together
for
well
over
a
year
today
we
are
announcing
that
the
county
and
many
of
our
health
system
partners
across
the
county
will
be
offering
covid
19
vaccine
to
all
county
residents,
65
years
of
age
and
older,
with
no
wrong
door.
C
C
But
then
again
never
did
I
imagine
a
year
ago
that
we
would
be
weeks
into
a
vaccination
campaign
and
have
a
safe
and
effective
vaccine
against
covet
19,
and
we
do
so.
Our
challenge
now
is
to
roll
out
our
vaccination
campaign
as
efficiently
and
effectively
as
we
can
to
get
those
vaccines
into
the
arms
of
those
who
are
most
vulnerable
and
most
likely
to
die
of
this
infection.
C
C
We
are
also
committed
to
ensuring
that
people
who
live
in
communities
in
our
county
that
have
been
hardest
hit
by
coven
19,
have
as
few
barriers
as
possible
to
getting
vaccinated,
and
that
means
sort
of
two
things.
One
is
that
we
bring
vaccination
to
those
communities
and
that
we
bring
people
in
those
communities
to
our
vaccination
sites
and
we're
working
with
our
community
stakeholders
on
both
of
those
efforts.
C
So
with
all
of
us
working
together,
I
know
that
we
can
prevent
more
illness
and
we
certainly
can
prevent
more
deaths,
and
we
are
delighted
to
have
everyone
working
together
to
protect
our
community.
Thank
you
so
much
and
I'd
like
to
introduce
a
supervisor
joe
simidian,
who
is
from
my
district.
I
am
his
constituent
supervisor.
Thank.
D
Good
morning,
all
as
you
heard,
I'm
county
supervisor,
joe
simidian,
I
represent
the
fifth
supervisorial
district,
which
is
the
northwest
portion
of
the
county.
I
represent
about
eight
of
the
city's
15
cities
and
towns
at
whole
in
holler
and
part
about
400
000
of
the
2
million
residents
of
santa
clara
county.
D
D
We
have
to
provide
access
to
the
vaccine
and
that
access
cannot
be
dependent
on
who
your
health
care
provider
is
or
the
number
of
vaccines
they
happen
to
have
received
in
any
given
week.
We've
got
to
give
every
resident
of
santa
clara
county
access
to
the
vaccine,
consistent
with
federal
state
and
local
criteria,
and
we
have
to
do
it
faster.
D
Prior
to
today,
under
the
state
system,
roughly
half
of
the
county's
population
was
served
by
and
continues
to
be,
served
by
what
we
call
multi-county
entities.
That's
the
state
term
of
art.
What
that
means
is
that
one
million
residents
of
the
two
million
residents
in
this
county
were
looking
to
their
providers.
Kaiser
and
sutter,
also
known
as
palo
alto
medical
foundation
to
access
the
vaccine
and
if
in
any
given
week
either
one
or
both
of
those
two
health
care
providers,
didn't
have
the
vaccine.
D
That
meant
those
folks
were
out
of
luck
as
you've
just
heard
from
dr
cody.
This
no
wrong
door
policy
means
that
fully
half
one
million
of
the
two
million
residents
of
this
county
who
previously
were
unable
to
access
the
vaccine
through
our
county,
are
now
eligible
to
do
that.
All
two
million
residents
of
the
county
of
santa
clara.
If
they
are
eligible,
if
they
fit
the
criteria
with
respect
to
age
and
circumstance,
will
now
be
able
to
come
to
our
county
or
to
their
health
care
provider,
but
again
with
no
wrong
door.
D
So
this
is
very
good
news,
indeed,
for
literally
a
million
residents
of
this
county
who
now
know
that
their
acc,
their
access
to
the
vaccine
will
not
be
dependent
on
who
their
health
care
provider
is
and
or
what
kind
of
allocation
they've
had
in
the
days
and
weeks
prior.
Thank
you
very
much,
and
it's
a
good
news
day.
Let
me
turn
it
over
to
dr
jeff
smith,
our
ceo
for
final
comments
and
then,
of
course,
happy
to
take
questions.
If
you
have.
E
E
E
E
E
F
Jeff,
can
you
clarify
the
policy
that
you
have
to
be
a
resident
of
a
particular
county
to
qualify?
There
might
be
tens
of
thousands
of
people
who
are
bus
drivers,
there's
real
shooters
who
live
in
hollister
or
santa
cruz.
They
spend
most
of
their
waking
hours
in
santa
clara
county,
where
they're
more
like
most
likely
to
acquire
the
virus.
If
you
do
get
it
is
that
a
policy
workable?
Do
you
see
a
change
there.
A
E
E
So
when
we
saw
that
kaiser
was
forced
to
cancel
clinics,
we
had
to
ask
ourselves:
how
can
we
fix
that?
How
can
we
intervene
the
best
way
possible
these
people,
who
are
65
and
older,
who
are
happen
to
be
kaiser?
Members
are
at
great
risk,
and
so,
if
they're
at
great
risk,
we
need
to
do
something
about
it.
So
that
has
a
lot
to
do
with
our
changing
policy.
H
So
I
know
when
the
governor
announced
that
people
65
and
older
would
be
eligible
for
the
vaccine.
It
was
somewhat
controversial
because
at
the
time
the
priority
was
people
75
and
older.
How
does
this
shift
in
policy?
How
do
you
ensure
that
people,
75
and
older
aren't
sort
of
elbow
out
of
the
way
by
all
of
the
65
people
trying
to
get
a
vaccine.
E
Great
question
and
the
focus
that
we're
using
in
the
county
health
system
is
special
outreach.
So,
as
I
mentioned,
we
have
numerous
sites
set
up
in
communities
of
high
risk.
We've
also
been
continuing
our
targeted
mobile
delivery
into
nursing
homes
and
skilled
nursing
facilities,
we're
developing
a
targeted
delivery
system
for
those
individuals
who
are
homebound
and
particularly
elders
over
75.,
and
we
realize
that
that
group
is
at
great
risk
and
so
we're
going
to
continue
to
push,
particularly
in
the
areas
where
there
is
high
incidence
of
the.
H
E
So
we
still
have
a
long
ways
to
go
and
we
clearly
do
not
have
enough
vaccine
on
hand
to
get
there.
But
we
have
assurances
from
the
feds
and
from
the
state
that
the
vaccine
numbers
will
be
increasing
by
at
least
20
percent,
and
so
we're
pretty
confident
that
we'll
be
able
to
push
in
order
to
get
enough
vaccine
to
be
able
to
continue
doing.
I
I
C
Thank
you
for
the
question.
I
just
want
to
clarify
that
the
state
has
rules
that
we
must
follow
and
they
have
set
out
which
sports
are
allowed
under
which
tier
santa
clara
county,
like
most
counties
in
the
state,
are
currently
in
the
purple
tier.
There
are
only
a
limited
number
of
sports
that
are
youth
sports
that
are
allowed
in
the
purple.
Tier
and
football
is
not
among
them,
and
so
we
cannot
allow
sports
that
the
state
does
not
allow
the
sports
that
the
state
does
allow.
C
We
receive
every
week
notification
from
the
state
as
to
our
county
allocation,
so
once
a
week
we
get
a
number
and
then
that
county
allocation
goes
to
the
various
health
systems
in
our
county.
I
want
to
clarify
that
that
county
allocation
is
just
the
doses
that
flow
through
the
county,
not
the
doses
that
throw
flow
through
the
state
pipeline
or
the
federal
pipeline.
I
just
want
to
emphasize.
This
is
an
incredibly
complex
allocation
and
distribution.
H
Systems
my
question
in
some
ways:
we
know
that
the
distribution
system
that
the
feds
give
somehow
the
state
gives
somehow
to
the
extent
that
that's
caused
problems
where
people
have
scheduled
appointments
and
those
appointments
had
to
be
cancelled.
Do
you
think
that
the
system
needs
to
be
rethought
where
you
guys
become
sort
of
the
central
clearinghouse
for
vaccines
coming
into
the
county?
Distribute
them?
As
you
see,.
C
In
the
county
we
only
have
control
over
part
of
the
system
and
our
job
is
to
make
it
as
clear
and
consistent
and
barrier
free,
as
we
can
and
that's
why
today,
we're
announcing
this
no
wrong
door
approach
in
collaboration
with
all
of
the
large
systems
across
the
county.
So
anyone
who
is
65
and
up
doesn't
matter
where
you
go
to
get
your
medical
care.
You
can
register
and
get
vaccinated.