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Description
The County of Santa Clara and City of Mountain View conduct a virtual press conference to announce the opening of a new high volume COVID-19 vaccination site at the Mountain View Community Center providing up to 1,000 vaccinations per day.
This appointment-only vaccination site is located at the Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave.
Visit https://www.sccFREEvax.org for appointments and information.
Recorded January 22, 2021.
The City of Cupertino would like to express its thanks to the County of Santa Clara for the use of their video materials during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For more information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Cupertino, please visit https://www.cupertino.org/coronavirus
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C
Today
we
are
pleased
to
announce
the
partnership
between
the
county
of
santa
clara
and
the
city
of
mountain
view
to
open
a
new
vaccination
site.
At
the
mountain
view,
community
center
today
we're
honored
to
have
the
following
speakers
with
us.
We
have
mountain
view,
mayor
ellen
commay
supervisor,
joe
simidian,
with
the
county
of
santa
clara
district
five
and
dr
jennifer
tong,
associate
chief
medical
officer
with
santa
clara
valley,
medical
center
also
present
with
us.
Today
we
have
mountain
view,
city
manager,
kimber,
mccarthy
and
mountain
view,
community
services,
director
john
marchand.
C
We
will
begin
today's
event
with
the
english
and
american
sign
language
portion
of
the
media
availability,
followed
by
a
question
and
answer
period
with
our
media.
During
the
question
and
answer
session,
media
will
have
the
opportunity
to
ask
questions
of
our
speakers.
Please
select
the
raise
hand,
function
and
the
moderator
will
call
on
you
and
send
you
a
request
to
unmute.
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Please
hit
the
unmute
button
to
ask
your
question
following
the
conclusion
of
the
english
and
asl
portion
of
our
event,
we
will
move
to
statements
from
our
pio
language
access
team
in
spanish,
vietnamese,
chinese
and
tagalog.
With
that.
I
am
now
very
pleased
to
introduce
mayor
ellen
comey
with
the
city
of
mountain
view,
mayor
command.
Thank
you
very
much.
D
Great
thank
you
so
much
good
afternoon.
I'm
ellen
commay,
mayor
for
the
city
of
mountain
view.
I'm
pleased
to
be
here
today
with
the
county
of
santa
clara
in
opening
a
vaccination
site
right
here.
In
mountain
view,
we
are
committed
to
bringing
coven
19
vaccinations
to
the
public
as
quickly
and
safely
as
possible.
D
This
effort
involves
having
the
appropriate
configuration
and
equipment
to
meet
public
health
protocols
for
giving
vaccinations,
along
with
the
needed
security,
information,
technology,
traffic
control
and
facility.
Setups
mountain
view
was
ready
and
willing
to
answer
the
call
to
action
and
provide
the
necessary
leadership
in
standing
up
a
vaccination
site
right
away
in
partnership
with
the
county
of
santa
clara.
D
In
closing,
through
this
collaborative
effort,
we
are
making
it
more
convenient
for
mountain
view,
residents
and
others
who
live
and
work
nearby
in
north
county
to
get
vaccinated
against
this
highly
contagious
virus,
and
it
is
my
pleasure
to
introduce
our
santa
clara
county
supervisor,
jose
midian.
Mr
smithian.
Take
it
away.
E
E
E
I
represent
the
fifth
supervisorial
district,
which
is
the
northwest
portion
of
santa
clara
county,
and
there
are
roughly
400
000
people
in
my
district
as
there
are
for
each
of
the
five
county
supervisors
and
as
we
face
down
this
challenge
of
distributing
vaccine
throughout
the
county
and
throughout
my
district,
I
of
course
have
been
concerned
about
the
importance
of
making
sure
that
we
had
adequate
distribution
facilities
here
in
the
northwest
portion
of
the
county.
I
I
think
it's
important
to
revisit
just
briefly
how
challenging
this
effort
has
been
and
acknowledging
it.
E
E
How
do
we
fix
it
and
go
forward
as
quickly
and
safely
as
we
possibly
can,
but
for
those
of
you
who
haven't
been
following
this
challenge,
you
know
we're
talking
about
the
state
providing
vaccine
directly
to
two
of
our
major
providers
in
this
area,
who
are
what
are
known
as
multi-county
entities
that
would
be
kaiser
and
the
palo
alto
medical
foundation
sutter.
So
literally
half
the
county
is
probably
covered
by
these
two
organizations.
E
They
get
their
vaccine
directly
from
the
state
and,
of
course,
we're
looking
to
them
to
be
full
partners
and
standing
up
their
vaccine
programs
as
quickly
as
they
possibly
can.
Then
we've
got
vaccine.
That's
going
to
the
va,
the
veterans,
administration
and
indian
health
service
directly
from
the
federal
government
to
those
two
federal
organizations,
they're
off
doing
their
good
work,
but
again
it
complicates
the
system
and
then,
finally,
we
have
vaccine
coming
straight
to
our
county,
where
we
have
to
partner
with
others
as
well
as
distribute
the
vaccine.
E
E
We
have
to
distribute
the
vaccine
not
only
through
our
own
county
clinics,
but
then
we
have
to
partner
with
folks
like
el
camino.
We
have
to
partner
with
folks
like
stanford
healthcare.
We
have
to
partner
with
our
community
clinics,
I'm
thinking
of
mayview
as
part
of
the
ravenswood
health
system.
So
all
of
that
being
said
cut
to
the
chase.
E
The
answer
was:
let's
work
with
the
city
of
mountain
view.
They've
been
good
partners
in
the
past.
They
are
once
again
stepping
up
to
be
a
partner
in
this
effort.
Community
center
is
a
wonderful
location.
The
location
is
well
known
to
many
and
we're
really
excited
and
delighted
that
we
can
start
today.
I've
said
before
and
I'll
say
it
again.
Time
is
of
the
essence.
We
don't
have
a
month
to
lose.
We
don't
have
a
week
to
lose.
We
don't
have
a
single
day
to
lose.
E
Last
thing
I'll
say,
is
you
know
to
take
a
very
complicated
process
and
and
make
it
simple?
You
need
three
things
for
a
vaccine
distribution
program
like
this
one.
You
need
a
location
and
the
city
of
mountain
view
has
provided
that
location.
You
need
a
team
of
qualified
medical
professionals
and
volunteers
to
distribute
the
vaccine
and
the
county
of
santa
clara
is
stepping
up
to
do
that.
E
Important
work
and
you'll
hear
more
from
our
staff
in
just
a
moment,
but
the
third
thing
you
need,
obviously,
is
the
vaccine,
and
on
that
front
we
of
course
have
to
wait
to
hear
from
the
state
we
are
dependent
on
them,
but
we
have
the
location.
Thank
you
city
of
mountain
view.
We
have
the
trained
staff.
Thank
you.
Santa
clara
county
health
system,
and
now,
as
long
as
we
have
the
vaccine,
we
are
in
a
position
to
get
to
a
thousand
people
a
day
in
short
order.
E
That
is
very
gratifying
to
me,
and
I
know
to
anxious
constituents
from
whom
I've
been
hearing
a
person
we're
going
to
hear
from
next,
and
I
want
to
turn
this
over
to
again
with
my
thanks
is
dr
jennifer
tong
from
our
santa
clara
valley,
medical
center.
She
is
able
to
respond
to
the
medical
questions
that
I
suspect
some
of
you
may
have.
So
let
me
turn
it
over
to
her
dr
tong.
Thank
you
for
being
with
us
and
thank
you
for
all
the
good
work
to
get
us
to
this
place
today.
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F
F
F
F
F
Please
continue
to
wear
a
mask
or
face
covering
stay
home,
except
for
essential
activities,
maintain
your
distance
and
be
ready
for
when
your
turn
comes
to
be
vaccinated
for
more
information
about
eligibility
and
information
about
how
to
schedule
a
vaccine.
Please
visit
our
website,
scc,
freevax.org,
and
with
that
I
will
turn
it
over
to
hillary
armstrong
for
questions
and
answers.
Thank
you.
C
C
Please
click
on
the
unmute
button
to
unmute
yourself
and
your
audio
will
then
be
disabled
once
the
speaker
responds
and
if
you
have
any
challenges
using
the
raise
hand
function,
please
feel
free
to
put
a
message
and
the
question
and
answer,
and
I
will
attempt
to
call
on
you.
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
patience
with
that.
C
I
will
first
go
to
tamara
amino
from
and
when
you,
when,
I
call
on
you,
please
also
state
your
state,
your
name
and
affiliation,
and
I
am
having
a
slight
if
my
team
could
help
me,
I'm
having
a
slight
difficulty
calling
on
folks
through
the
attendee
panel,
so
please
hold
and
we
will
do
our
best.
Thank
you.
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C
H
Okay,
great,
this
is
ron
lin
with
the
la
times.
Thank
you
to
all
of
you
for
taking
our
questions.
We
really
appreciate
it
and
your
service,
dr
tong,
can
you
share
with
us
why
you
think
cases
and
hospitalizations
have
begun
to
decline?
Do
you
think
it's
a
partly
result
of
the
regional
stay-at-home
order
and
do
you
think
fewer
people
gathered
over
christmas
than
they
did
over
thanksgiving?
H
F
F
Dr
to
answer
your
question
about
how
big
of
a
stumbling
block
that
has
been
it's
a
significant
stumbling
block.
It
is
one
of
the
reasons
why
we
don't
release
appointments
further
into
the
future,
because
we're
really
trying
to
meet
that
supply
and
demand
and
try
to
avoid
canceling
appointments
due
to
lack
of
vaccine.
Although
that
is
a
potential
reality
that
we
might
face
if
vaccine
allotment
and
delivery
doesn't
keep
up
with
our
rate
of
appointments.
J
Oh
geez,
it
might
be
mountain
view.
I
just
want
to
make
things
crystal
clear
about
eligibility
at
this
that
vaccination
site.
My
understanding
is
that
it,
it
may
and
in
fact
might
be
just
count-
people
who
are
served
by
the
county,
health
and
hospital
system,
as
opposed
to
someone
who
has
kaiser
or
sutter
for
insurance.
So
I
just
wanted
clarification
on
that
and
if
someone
could
maybe
address
head
on
the
fact
that
that
is
only
a
small
minority
of
the
people
who
who
live
in
this
area,
thanks.
E
However,
while
we
may
have
something
like
300
000
patients
in
our
system
as
patients
of
the
valley,
health
and
hospital
system,
we
also
have
a
lot
of
folks
in
the
county
who
simply
don't
have
a
health
care
provider.
They
also
would
be
eligible
to
come
if
they
were
gig
workers
without
a
plan.
If
they
were
young
invincibles
in
that
2030
category,
who
just
didn't
have
health
insurance
or
a
regular
provider,
they
could
come
as
well.
Yes,.
F
Most
definitely,
and
in
fact
that's
why
we
ask
people
to
first
check
with
their
own
health
care
provider
because,
to
the
extent
possible,
we
would
like
to
preserve
access
for
those
who,
who
don't
have
a
provider
to
go
to
or
maybe
go
to
a
smaller
provider.
Who's
not
set
up
to
be
able
to
give
vaccinations
at
this
point
in
time,.
E
And
I
one
more
follow
up
with
you
and
then
I'll
stop
playing
reporter
and
go
back
to
being
a
county
supervisor
in
terms
of
your
comments
about
the
vaccine,
what
I
heard
you
to
say
is:
we've
got
two
million
people
in
the
county.
If
half
the
vaccine
is
going
directly
to
the
folks
at
kaiser
and
palo
alto
medical
foundation
sutter,
we
obviously
can't
have
the
county
providing
vaccine
to
100
percent
of
the
population.
If
we're
only
getting
50
percent
of
the
doses
is
that
a
fair
summary.
D
And
and
supervisors
submitted
in
dr
tong,
if,
if
I
might,
you
know,
I
think
one
of
the
the
things
that
we've
been
working
with
in
partnership
with
the
county
is
providing
access.
You
know
whether
that
be
access
to
covet
19
tests,
and
now
people
have
been
asking
for
access
to
a
vaccination
site
in
north
county.
D
I
think
that
you
know
we're
willing,
ready
and
willing
to
be
a
partner,
and
I
think
that
everyone
is
trying
to
play
their
their
role
in
their
part
to
to
help
bring
vaccinations
to
their
communities
as
quickly
and
safely
as
possible
to
the
points
that
were
made
earlier.
So
I
just
wanted
to
kind
of
include
that
as
well,
because
the
the
demand
is
very
high
and
we
need
to
make
sure
that
there's,
equal
and
equitable
access
throughout
our
entire
county
and
the
city
of
mountain
view
is
committed
to
that.
Thank
you.
E
And
these
other
providers
are,
are
the
partners
that
mayor
comey
is
reminding
us
are
so
critical?
Nobody
can
do
it
all
by
themselves,
but
if
everybody
will
take
apart
and
do
what
they
can,
we
can
get
this
done.
The
folks
at
el
camino
will
be
providing
a
vaccine.
The
folks
at
mayview
community,
clinic
in
mountain
view,
a
long
time
provider
will
be
providing
vaccine.
E
C
K
Thank
you.
So
much.
Can
you
hear
me?
Okay,
you
can
okay
great
yeah.
I
just
wanted
to
ask
how
much
vaccine
did
you
request
from
the
state
for
next
week
and
how
much
are
you
getting
and
are
you
able
to
keep
increasing
the
pace
of
vaccinations
with
the
amounts
you're
receiving
and
the
fact
that
you
need
to
be
able
to
go
back
and
provide
second
doses
to
those
I
think
you
said
it
was
50
000
people
who
are
already
vaccinated.
F
Sure
so
the
the
process
for
receiving
vaccine-
it's
not
like
placing
an
order
and
then
part
of
our
order
gets
fulfilled.
The
process
is
that
we
are
told
by
the
state
what
we
are
eligible
to
receive
and
then
we
are
allowed
to
say
how
much
of
that
we
want.
Now,
of
course,
we
are
currently
saying
we
want
a
hundred
percent
of
everything
that
the
state
is
able
to
give
us.
F
So
as
an
example,
our
allocation
countywide
for
next
week
is
on
the
order
of
about
20
000
doses,
that's
much
smaller
much
smaller
than
what
any
of
us
had
hoped.
Fortunately,
it
does
add
to
some
existing
vaccine
inventory
that
we
have
in
order
to
hopefully
get
through
the
week
of
those
who've
already
been
scheduled.
F
In
addition
to
that
volume,
we
received
13
000
second
doses,
which
should
meet
the
demand
for
the
appointments
we
have
upcoming
for
second
doses.
So
it
really
is
currently
a
week
by
week
assessment
and,
as
I
said,
everything
that
the
state
is
offering
to
give
us.
We
are
absolutely
accepting
and
to
the
extent
that
there's
an
opportunity
to
to
push
for
more,
we
are
taking
every
opportunity
to
do
so,
but
we're
currently
limited
by
that
that
state
allocation.
C
G
Hi,
yes
thanks
so
much
I'm
sorry,
I
got
disconnected
basically
the
same
question
that
was
recently
asked
regarding
the
thousand
doses
that
will
be
available
daily
because,
as
we
know,
those
are
first
doses
right.
So
what
since
people
have
to
come
back
in
three
weeks
for
the
second
dose,
are
there
gonna
be
more
than
a
thousand
doses
available
daily
after
that
or
are
the
are?
You
know?
The
second
doses
for
these
people
are
going
to
be
included
in
the
in
that
thousand
doses
daily.
F
First
doses
that
we'll
be
giving,
and
at
the
time
of
that
appointment,
we'll
be
scheduling
that
second
dose
for
the
type
of
vaccine
that
we're
giving
here.
That
second
dose
will
be
four
weeks
out.
That
does
allow
us
some
ongoing
capacity
for
first
dose
administration
but
you're
exactly
right
that,
due
to
being
limited
by
physical
space
parking
spaces
there
will
it
will
ebb
and
flow.
The
number
of
first
doses
appointments
that
we're
able
to
offer,
as
opposed
to
second
doses,
that
have
already
been.