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County of Santa Clara Public Health officials provide updates on vaccine distribution and the COVID-19 status in our county, with the cumulative case count surpassing 100,000 cases. Also a year ago this weekend, Santa Clara County confirmed our first COVID-19 case.
Recorded January 29, 2021.
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Coronavirus
all
right
good
afternoon,
my
name
is
ricardo
romero
morales,
I'm
a
lead
public
information
officer
with
the
county
of
santa
clara
emergency
operations
center.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
for
today's
press
conference
today,
we'll
be
providing
an
update
regarding
the
distribution
of
cover
19
vaccines
through
our
community.
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This
weekend
also
marks
the
one
year
anniversary
of
the
first
confirmed
case
of
cover
19
in
santa
clara
county,
as
well
as
the
unfortunate
milestone
of
passing
one
hundred
thousand
cumulative
cases
in
our
community.
Today
we're
honored
to
have
the
following
speakers
with
us.
Dr
marty,
fenserscheife
covet
19
testing
and
vaccine
officer
for
the
county
of
santa
clara
and
dr
jennifer
tong,
associate
chief
medical
officer
for
santa
clara
valley,
medical
center.
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In
addition,
we
have
reached
over
eight
percent
of
all
county
residents
who
are
16
years
of
age
or
older,
with
at
least
one
dose
and
that
that
will
be
increased
as
we
move
forward
and
get
more
vaccine.
Of
course,
there
are
certainly
challenges
that
we've
had
to
follow
and
have
faced,
but
we
have
a
really
massive
and
efficient
vaccine
delivery
system
in
our
community.
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The
majority
of
the
vaccines
are
being
done
by
the
county
health
system,
but
the
bottom
line
is
the
bottom
line.
Is
we
have
the
ability
to
give
the
vaccines?
What
we
don't
have
are
enough
vaccines
provided
to
us
again.
Equity
remains
our
focus.
We
are
deeply
committed
to
ensuring
that
our
communities
that
are
hardest
hit
and
are
most
impacted
by
the
pandemic
have
the
information
and
the
resources
they
need
to
accept,
getting
vaccinated
and
to
access
the
vaccines
that
we
do
have.
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E
Some
specific
actions
that
we've
undertaken
to
support
equity
to
the
most
at
risk
populations
include
vaccination,
sign
up
fairs
to
help
those
with
limited
access
to
technology,
be
able
to
obtain
appointments
partnering
with
the
cities
in
our
county
and
organizations
serving
seniors
to
assist
with
vaccine
appointment
sign.
Ups,
a
vaccine
phone
bank
in
partnership
with
telemundo
and
nbc,
occurred
earlier
this
week
to
answer
community
members
questions
about
the
vaccine,
and
next
week
we
will
be
expanding
further.
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Our
ability
to
schedule
vaccines
via
phone
I'd
like
to
take
a
moment
to
acknowledge
the
many
people
on
the
ground
who
are
helping
to
serve
our
community
by
participating
in
this
massive
effort
to
make
vaccinations
available.
This
brings
an
entirely
new
level
of
public
service
beyond
what
any
of
us
have
experienced
before
they
this
week
have
been
through
power
outages.
They
have
been
through
hours
in
the
cold
rain,
helping
to
direct
folks
to
the
right
place.
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They
have
helped
manage
the
emotions
of
those
who
are
hopeful,
but
not
yet
eligible
to
receive
a
vaccine
if
you
are
at
a
vaccine
site
or
if
you
know
some
of
these
staff
members,
please
thank
them
for
their
incredible
service.
For
the
duration
of
this
pandemic,
our
system
and
our
county
as
a
whole.
We
stand
strong
with
an
infrastructure
that
is
ready
to
further
expand
our
capacity.
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Again,
the
question
is,
you
know:
we've
gone
through
a
lot
this
year
we
have
1300
deaths.
Could
we
have
prevented
them?
You
know
that
I
think
that
this
county,
we
should
look
at
what
we
have
done
and
the
fact
that
we
were
the
first
county
really
to
have
a
stay-at-home
shelter-in-place
order.
Most
likely
prevented
a
lot
more
deaths
and
a
lot
more
hospitalizations
in
this
community.
Could
we
have
done
better?
Of
course,
every
community
could
do
better,
but
again,
the
idea
is
that
we
have
the
information.
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We
have
the
knowledge
so
that
our
community
can
respond
and
be
safe
and
protect
one
another
and
now
with
vaccinations.
Hopefully
we
will
see
an
end
to
this
pandemic
soon,
as
well
as
we
move
forward.
But
again,
I
think
it's
really
important
that
you
brought
that
up,
that
we
continue
to
wear
our
masks
and
to
social
distance
and
to
stay
out
of
crowds
and
not
travel,
and
we
as
we
do
this
as
we
move
along,
we
can
prevent
any
further
deaths
in
our.
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Yeah,
balancing
the
issues
of
the
public
health
versus
the
business,
I
mean
there's
no
question
that
the
toll
is
taken
not
only
on
people's
health
and
lives,
the
ability
to
meet
with
your
family
and
your
loved
ones,
but
also
to
be
able
to
provide
for
your
family.
It's
certainly
been
a
very
difficult
balance.
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Yeah
we
we
established
a
goal
again,
hoping
that
we
could
get
enough
vaccine
and
that
would
require
us
to
basically
to
give
anywhere
from
13
to
15
000
doses
per
day
seven
days
a
week,
and
then,
by
doing
that
by
august
sometime
in
august
or
the
summer,
we
should
get
everyone
vaccinated.
That's
still
a
goal.
I
think
the
government,
the
federal
government,
is
doing
its
best
also
and
we're
confident
and
hopeful
that
we'll
get
enough
vaccine.
We
will
basically
need
twice
the
amount
of
vaccine
that
we
have
now.
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As
dr
tong
has
said,
the
county
has
done
an
amazing
job
in
getting
out
the
vaccines
increasing
capacity
up
to
five
to
six
thousand
doses
a
day.
I
reported
that
we're
seeing
on
average
about
6
600
a
day,
so
you
can
do
the
math
and
see
that
the
county
system
is
bearing
the
brunt
of
providing
most
of
the
vaccine.
However,
it
is
an
issue
of
how
much
vaccine
we've
gotten
and
the
other
systems
are
also
awaiting
more
vaccines
in
the
future
so
that
they
can
also
ramp
up.
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Again,
how
important
it
is
for
us
working
with
our
community
partners
and
the
resilience
within
the
community.
I
mean
we
are
just
thrilled
to
be
able
to
work
with
our
community.
We
have
a
stakeholder
group
of
over
150
people
made
up
of
all
all
aspects
of
our
community,
but
we
really
really
want
to
make
sure
that
we
focus
on
the
hardest
impacted
communities
in
the
east
side,
especially
the
latinx
community,
south
county.
Also-
and
it's
amazing,
we
have
people
on
the
ground.
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There's
certainly
we
know
there's
some
vaccine
hesitancy
in
many
of
these
communities
of
people
who
need
more
information
in
order
to
be
comfortable
getting
a
vaccine
and
trust
the
people
within
their
own
communities.
So
that's
why
it's
important
to
work
with
those
communities.
Community,
partnership,
gardner
the
community
clinics
in
establishing
credible
information
coming
out
and
encouraging
people
to
be
vaccinated,
especially
those
at
highest
risk.
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Yes,
I
think
in
typical
times,
health
care
is
already
very
difficult.
We
are
already
facing.
You
know,
challenging
life
and
death
scenarios,
stressful
situations,
a
high
capacity,
even
at
baseline,
before
the
pandemic,
so
this
pandemic
has
added
significant
work,
stress
and
increased
demands
on
our
health
care
systems
and
our
health
care
workers.