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More than 47,000 healthcare workers in Santa Clara County have received their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines and healthcare systems throughout the county began administering second doses of the vaccines this week. With the California Department of Public Health’s announcement expanding eligibility for COVID-19 vaccination to all healthcare personnel under any tier of Phase 1A, healthcare systems throughout the county are expanding capacity and working tirelessly to ensure that all eligible individuals receive the vaccine expeditiously as new shipments arrive each week.
Today, County of Santa Clara officials give an update on COVID-19 vaccine distribution, including new locations where eligible healthcare workers can be vaccinated.
Recorded January 8, 2021.
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C
Hello:
everyone
on
behalf
of
the
county
of
santa
clara,
thank
you
for
joining
us
today
for
this
very
important
update.
Today,
you
will
hear
from
our
county
leadership
with
an
update
on
our
kovid
19
vaccine
plan
distribution,
including
updates
on
new
locations
where
eligible
healthcare
workers
can
be
vaccinated.
C
You
will
hear
first
from
dr
sarah
cody,
our
health
officer
and
director
of
public
health
here
at
county
of
santa
clara.
You
will
then
hear
from
dr
marty
fenstersheim
our
county
of
santa
clara
cove
19
testing
officer.
You
will
then
hear
from
dr
jennifer
tong
associate
chief
medical
officer
of
the
santa
clara
valley,
medical
center.
C
D
Good
morning,
everyone
thank
you,
as
always
for
being
here
today,
we're
here
to
share
with
you
some
really
good
news.
It's
2021,
we
had
a
very
challenging
2020
and-
and
today
we
have
some
encouraging
news
to
share
with
you
all.
As
you
know,
we
are
still
just
to
set
the
stage
here.
We
are
still
in
an
extraordinarily
difficult
place
in
this
pandemic.
D
D
So
vaccine
rolls
out
in
phases
right
now
we're
still
in
phase
1a,
which
includes
about
140
000
people
in
our
county,
all
of
whom
are
healthcare
personnel.
So
that's
our
focus.
Now
we
are
really
thrilled
with
the
partnership
of
all
health
care
systems
in
our
county
who
have
helped
to
stand
up
vaccination,
and
so
the
word
that
we
want
to
get
out
is
if
you
fall
into
phase
1a.
D
But
all
of
the
health
care
systems
in
in
santa
clara
county
have
really
been
extraordinary
in
standing
up
vaccination
because
they
did
this
in
the
middle
of
the
biggest
surge
we've
ever
had,
and
they
did
this
in
the
middle
of
the
winter
holidays.
Because
vaccine
arrived
right
on
the
eve
of
the
winter
holidays
and
even
with
those
challenges,
all
of
the
systems
in
the
county
have
been
able
to
stand
up,
robust
vaccination,
which,
which
I
think
is
truly
extraordinary.
C
E
You
dr
cody
good
afternoon,
we're,
as
dr
cody
mentioned,
we're
really
thrilled
to
be
working
in
such
collaboration
with
our
partners,
the
other
health
facilities
in
the
community.
We
are
still
in
phase
1a
as
a
county
as
a
state,
and
that
means
healthcare
workers,
along
with
residents
of
long-term
care
facilities,
are
being
targeted
right
now
for
vaccinations.
E
As
was
mentioned,
we
have
approximately
140
000
health
care
personnel
in
this
county
that
work
here
and
our
healthcare
personnel.
To
date,
we
have
vaccinated
over
47
000
of
those
healthcare
workers.
Now
that
does
not
encounter
for
some
of
the
additional
federal
allocated
vaccine
that
comes
in
to
the
va
and
through
the
retail
pharmacy
program
that
is
actually
out
vaccinating
residents
of
the
long-term
care
facilities,
so
47
000,
plus
additional
vaccines
that
are
coming
in
through
those
other
programs
we
have.
E
So,
as
was
mentioned
also,
we've
talked
about
tiers
for
phase
1a,
which
broke
down
clinics,
outpatient,
inpatient
and
various
other
categories
of
healthcare
personnel.
But
at
this
point
the
state
has
given
the
directive
for
all
persons
who
are
healthcare,
personnel
to
now
be
vaccinated,
and
so
all
of
those
persons
can
make
arrangements
through
their
own
healthcare
facilities
where
they
get
their
healthcare,
whether
it's
at
pam
for
whether
it's
at
stanford
or
kaiser
or
the
valley
to
make
an
appointment
and
get
vaccinated.
E
E
We
cannot
let
our
guard
down
so
again,
very
exciting
news,
we're
very
happy
to
to
announce
our
efforts
with
everyone
else.
The
next
phases
that
we
will
be
moving
into,
which,
of
course
everybody
wants
to
know.
When
is
it
their
turn,
will
be
a
phase
b
and
we're
hoping
to
be
able
to
move
to
that.
That
phase
at
the
by
the
end
of
the
month,
sometime
by
the
end
of
the
month,
again
dependent
on
the
amount
of
vaccine
that
we
expect
to
arrive
and
so
more
information
on
that
to
come.
E
F
This
has
been
an
extremely
complex
effort,
spanning
technology
development,
space
development,
staffing
training,
outreach
having
personally
been
involved
in
many
complex
healthcare
transitions
over
the
years
I
can
say
with
confidence.
This
is
this
is
by
far
the
most
complex
that
we
have
seen.
Yet
each
healthcare
system
in
our
county
is
trying
to
address
this
unprecedented
effort
in
the
most
efficient
and
effective
way
possible.
F
G
Good
morning
and
welcome
and
thank
you
for
coming
this
morning,
I'm
very
pleased
to
join
our
dedicated
county
health
care
professionals,
as
the
county
announced
this
expanded
vaccination
site
that
we
talked
about
today
here
at
the
valley
health
center
in
tully.
We
are
very
pleased
that
this
site
will
be
an
additional
facility
to
administer
our
vaccines
and
we're
very
pleased
that
the
state
has
also
expanded
the
eligibility
for
vaccinations
to
practically
all
health
care
workers,
and
we
urge
those
individuals
to
get
vaccinated
as
soon
as
possible.
G
Your
efforts
have
absolutely
saved
so
many
lives
and
prevented
so
many
more
thousand
residents
from
getting
sick
of
this
deadly
virus,
and
I,
of
course
want
to
thank
all
our
dedicated
nurses
and
health
care
professionals
for
the
incredible
efforts
of
making
sure
the
vaccines
are
received
administered
as
safely
but
as
quickly
as
possible
as
well.
Today's
announcement
underscores
the
county's
commitment
to
more
than
40
000
health
care
workers
who
have
received
the
first
doses
of
the
covit
19
vaccines.
G
These
additional
vaccination
sites
are
absolutely
necessary
as
we
come
together
to
fight
this
pandemic.
As
we
have
seen,
this
issue
is
now
revolving.
Besides
being
a
medical
issue,
it
becomes
a
logistical
issue,
we're
talking
about
getting
enough
people
out
there
to
get
the
vaccines
out
in
a
timely
manner
and
making
sure
that
they
are
qualified
and
they're
safe
and
we're
doing
as
best
as
we
can
so
county
and
I'm
so
proud
to
say
that
these
are
all
coming
together.
G
As
of
yesterday,
we
just
had
our
first
day
in
united
states
over
4
000
people
died,
4
thousand
that's
more
than
how
many
perish
in
one
day
and
nine
eleven,
let's
put
them
in
perspective,
and
the
message
is
telling
people
is.
Please
don't
go
out
as
much
as
you
want
to
get
together
with
friends
is
extremely
dangerous.
Wearing
masks
is
absolutely
important.
I
want
to
make
sure,
with
the
lunar
new
year,
coming
by.
Many
of
us
would
love
to
see
our
loved
ones,
but
this
is
absolutely
the
wrong
thing
to
do.
G
G
This
is
the
only
way
we
really
could
get
to
see
each
other,
because
we
absolutely
want
to
make
sure
that
we
could
live
through
this
and,
yes,
we
will
because
of
the
fact
that
these
vaccines
are
going
to
have
skilled
nursing
facilities
and
partners
like
drug
stores
like
cvs
and
walgreens,
are
also
getting
vaccines
directly.
To
give
to
many
many
of
our
skilled
nursing
facilities,
members
and
patients.
G
We
could
beat
this
thing
that
we
need
everybody
to
hunker
down.
For
the
last
time,
this
next
few
weeks,
the
next
few
months
would
be
so
crucial
to
get
that
out,
and
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you,
everybody
for
for
putting
up
this
hard,
difficult
decisions
and
times
that
we're
going
through,
and
but
we
will
make
this
one
other
good
news.
G
C
H
E
Great,
so
the
question
is
we've
given
about
four
over
47
000
we
have
received,
the
county
has
been
allocated.
I
should
say
110
000.,
the
it's
it's
very
important
for
initially
all
of
that
vaccine
to
get
into
the
hands
of
the
providers,
and
so
all
of
the
hospitals
have
received
all
of
the
vaccine
that
is
required
for
them
to
meet
the
needs
of
all
of
their
staff
plus
begin
doing
the
rest
of
the
vaccination.
As
was
mentioned,
it's
a
it's
a
complicated
process.
E
E
H
I
could
just
a
quick
follow-up.
I
did
a
little
quick
math
after
you
gave
us
the
47
000
number
at
the
current
rate.
If
nothing
is
accelerated.
According
to
my
calculations,
it
would
take
roughly
two
and
a
half
years
to
administer
the
vaccine
to
the
two
million
people
currently
in
the
county.
What
do
we
do
to
get
this
faster
because,
obviously
that's
too
slow
right
and.
E
I
would
just
go
back
to
the
fact
that
I
was
involved
and
dr
tong
was
involved
in
the
testing
off
the
testing
of
this
community.
For
for
for
the
virus,
it
took
a
considerable
effort.
We
started
slow.
We
were
just
doing
a
couple
hundred
people
testing
a
day
at
the
fairgrounds.
Now
we're
doing
five
six
thousand
a
day,
twenty
thousand,
so
I
think
it's
expected
to
start
slowly
and
we
will
absolutely
ramp
up.
We've
heard
that
the
federal
government
under
the
new
administration
is
going
to
push
out
a
lot
more
vaccine.
E
H
E
We
don't
have
control
over
the
federal
government,
but
we
have
been
promised
those,
and
I
think
we
will
be
getting
those
there's.
No
reason
that
the
vaccine
manufacturers
have
said
not
to
provide
us
we've
already
gotten
additional
doses
that
that
are
going
to
be
used
as
second
doses.
So
we
expect
that
we
will
have
all
the
doses
that
we
need.
E
D
D
D
D
I
think
that
what
we've
seen
so
far
is
promising,
because
our
health
care
systems
were
able
to
bring
up
vaccinations
in
the
middle
of
responding
to
the
biggest
surge
we've
ever
had
and
over
a
holiday.
Remember
that
the
vaccines
didn't
first,
the
first
doses
of
vaccine
didn't
arrive
into
the
county
until
the
week
before
christmas.
D
D
The
question
is
about
the
number
of
hospitalizations:
where
are
we
and
where
do
we
expect
to
be
as
of
this
morning?
Well,
I
would
say
over
the
last
several
days,
the
icu
capacity,
which
is
what
we
watch
very
closely.
We
are,
we
are
down
to
it's,
ranging
between
20
to
25
icu
beds
across
the
entire
county.
D
Our
capacity
in
every
hospital
is
stretched,
and
we
are
also,
of
course,
wanting
to
help
other
other
counties
and
other
regions
right.
We're
trying
to
take.
Do
our
part
to
take
care
of
everybody.
So
we
are.
We
are
by
no
means
out
of
the
woods.
We
are
really
in
the
thick
of
it.
The
projections
vary
by
the
day.
D
I
think
the
key
unknown,
which
is
why
I
can't
like
project
what's
gonna
happen
is
what
bump
will
we
see
in
our
cases
as
a
result
of
holiday
travel
and
gathering?
So
we
saw
a
significant
bump
after
thanksgiving.
That's
now
been
translated
into
hospitalizations
and
an
overwhelm
of
the
system.
We
don't
yet
know
what
the
effect
of
christmas
and
new
year's
travel
will
be.
So
that's
the
big
unknown.
H
D
D
I
I
want
to
emphasize
I'm
not
a
logistics
person
as
our
supervisor.
Lee
is,
but
even
I
can
appreciate
the
complexity
of
this
and
let
me
just
lay
out
a
couple
of
the
very
variables
that
make
this
so
complex
number
one:
the
storage
and
handling
for
the
vaccines
currently
available,
the
pfizer
vaccine.
That
requires
a
freezer
of
you,
know
minus
70
degrees
and
then
some
very
particular
storage
and
handling
the
the
moderna
vaccine,
minus
20
degree
freezer.
So
that
means
the
design
kind
of
has
to
be
around
the
proximity
to
the
freezer.
D
So
that's
that
makes
this
vac
seem
pretty
different
number
two.
We
have
two
vaccines
now,
but
in
the
future
we
may
anticipate
there
are
different
vaccines.
Each
is
under
emergency
youth
use
authorization,
which
means
there's
very
particular
procedures
in
order
to
give
the
vaccine
it's
not
like
just
giving
the
flu
vaccine
and
they're
different
for
each
vaccine.
D
G
D
Fire
paramedics
are
included
as
healthcare
personnel,
and
so
they
belong
in
phase
1a
and
have
been
offered
vaccine
law
enforcement
is
not
in
phase
1a
as
soon
as
I
believe,
they're
in
phase
1b.
Although
I
have
to
go
check
as
soon
as
they're
in
the
priority
group,
they
will
of
course
be
offered
vaccine
and
again
remember
all
of
the
health
care
systems
operating
in
our
county
are
receiving
vaccine
and
ready
to
vaccinate
their
patients
once
they
come
into
a
eligible
group.