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From YouTube: County Public Health Dept. Press Conference (New Vaccination Site) - February 23, 2021
Description
County of Santa Clara Public Health officials announce the opening of a new COVID-19 vaccination site at Emmanuel Baptist Church as part of their continuing outreach to disproportionately impacted communities.
Recorded February 23, 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
B
And
thank
you
for
being
here.
My
name
is
ricardo
romero
morales.
I'm
lead
public
information
officer
for
the
emergency
operations
center
in
santa
clara
county.
We're
gathered
here
today
to
announce
the
opening
of
a
new
vaccination
site
here
at
emmanuel
baptist
church
today,
we're
honored
to
be
here
with
the
following
speakers:
pastor
jason,
reynolds
senior
pastor
from
the
emmanuel
baptist
church,
dr
jennifer
tong,
associate
chief
medical
officer
from
santa
clara
valley,
medical
center.
B
We
will
begin
this
press
conference
in
english
in
american
sign
language.
We
will
then
have
a
period
of
questions
and
answers.
After
that
we
will
have
statements
in
spanish,
chinese,
vietnamese
and
tagalog
from
the
podium
with
that
it
is
my
honor
to
introduce
pastor
jason
reynolds
from
the
manual
baptist
church.
Thank.
C
You
all
right.
Well,
let
me
say:
welcome
to
emmanuel
doctor's
church
so
thankful
that
we
get
a
chance
to
be
a
light
in
this
dark
time,
a
space
where
people
can
come
and
get
help,
and
hopefully,
as
we've,
been
a
partner
with
the
county
and
testing
that
this
partnering
for
vaccinations
will
really
help
in
this
particular
location.
C
One
of
the
things
that
I
am
so
happy
to
be
able
to
represent
for
our
church
is
that
we
recognized
during
this
time.
When
our
building
was
closed,
we
weren't
able
to
use
it
in
the
same
ways
that
we
didn't
just
sit
there
when
the
opportunity
came
that
we
could
continue
to
use
this
same
space
to
touch
so
many
people,
so
many
individuals
who
are
having
lives
that
were
adversely
affected.
C
We
were
able
to
answer
that
call
and
to
know
that
almost
40
000
people
have
been
tested
at
our
site,
we're
hoping
that
as
vaccinations
will
roll
out
we'll
do
that,
and
especially
to
touch
some
of
those
communities
most
most
affected
african
ancestry,
the
indigenous
population
and
even
the
latin
x
community.
That's
right
here!
So
welcome
to
emmanuel
baptist
church.
We
say
where
god
is
doing
something
special,
but
we
really
do
believe
that
something
special
is
happening
in
this
time.
D
Good
morning,
I'm
dr
jennifer
tong
associate
chief
medical
officer
for
santa
clara
valley
medical
center.
I'm
really
excited
to
be
here
today
to
announce
our
county's
partnership
with
emmanuel
baptist
church
to
expand
our
covid
vaccination
efforts
in
east
san
jose
emanuel's
generosity
in
opening
their
doors
to
give
back
to
the
community
throughout
this
pandemic
is
really
unparalleled.
D
D
D
More
than
57
percent
of
our
population,
age
75
and
up
has
received
at
least
one
dose
of
vaccine
and
almost
half
of
residents
aged
65
and
older
have
received
at
least
one
dose
within
the
coming
week.
Providers
across
the
county
will
be
expanding
eligibility
to
front
line
workers
in
the
state's
phase
1b
eligibility
tier,
including
education,
child
care,
emergency
services
and
food
and
agriculture,
even
as
we
expand
to
these
other
populations,
we'll
be
working
to
ensure
ongoing
access
to
the
older
individuals
in
our
community
who
face
the
highest
risk
of
severe
illness.
D
I'd
like
to
take
this
time
to
thank
the
many
team
members
who
are
making
this
this
enormous
effort
possible
many
many
county
staff,
traveling
nurses
from
around
the
country,
the
national
guard,
many
volunteers
from
the
community
all
coming
together
to
serve
our
community
seven
days
a
week,
many
hours
throughout
the
day
for
additional
information
about
how
to
make
an
appointment.
You
can
visit
our
website.
E
D
Sure
the
question
is
about
turnout
and
no,
our
no-show
rate
continues
to
vary
day-to-day
yesterday,
our
no-show
rate
was
10,
which
is
really
really
impressive,
given
that
no
shows
in
health
care
are
actually
quite
common.
D
A
few
of
those
individuals
are
people
who
were
determined,
for
example,
to
to
not
have
a
connection
to
our
county
and
may
have
been
turned
away
during
the
process,
but
others
are
potentially
people
who
were
unable
to
come
for
various
reasons,
work,
child
care
demands,
and
we
hope
that
they
will
be
rescheduling
to
come
back
to
one
of
our
sites.
Again,
we
continue
overbooking.
Those
doses
do
not
go
to
waste.
We
continue
ensuring
that
our
doses
are
utilized
each
day.
D
So,
each
time
that
we
open
a
site,
we
do
what
we
call
a
soft
lunch
to
work
out
any
any
processes
that
still
need
refinement.
For
example,
setting
up
new
technology
requires
quite
a
bit
of
technical
support
and
troubleshooting
on
day
one.
So
our
goal
for
today
was
between
100
and
200
people
and
we'll
be
slowly
increasing
the
capacity
at
this
site
up
to
a
projected
maximum
capacity
around
500
per.
D
We
continue
to
be
in
communication
with
the
state
and
blue
shield
about
their
requirements
and
we're
prepared
to
meet
those
requirements.
Information
is
still
forthcoming
to
us,
the
extent
to
which
we're
required
to
use
their
system
versus
the
extent
to
which
we're
required
you're
allowed
to
use
our
own
system.
We've
certainly
invested
a
lot
of
time
and
energy
into
the
system
that
we
use
in
our
sites
today.
But
again
we
are.
We
are
prepared
to
do
what's
required
of
us
and
what's
best
for
our.
D
We
expect
to
have
more
clarity
on
that
within
the
next
few
weeks,
as
the
state
makes
its
way
through
different
counties
in
their
new
approach
to
the
technical
requirements
for
vaccination
sites.
The
bay
area
is
actually
in
the
latest
wave
of
of
those
requirements
being
sent
forth.
C
Absolutely
so
the
question
was
about
how
our
community
has
been
impacted,
and
so
the
church
has
really
been
well
2020.
We
kind
of
made
it
through
all
right
and
then
we
opened
up
this
year
and
we
had
family
after
family
who
contracted
the
disease.
We've
lost
a
number
of
members
to
the
disease
and
having
those
conversations
knowing
loved
ones,
couldn't
see
their
their
loved
ones.
C
Again,
I
had
to
say
goodbye
via
facetime
was
just
really
really
challenging
and
then
even
our
grief
process,
which
is
totally
changed
in
the
in
the
era
of
covet.
C
We
just
desire
to
to
try
to
help
to
stem
that
time
and
then
our
exterior
community,
those
around
us
it
has
greatly
been
effective.
We
have
a
number
of
essential
workers,
a
number
of
individuals
that
aren't
able
to
stay
home
and
not
have
to
go
into
the
locations
and
put
themselves
in
harm's
way,
and
so,
if
we
could
be
here
where
they
are,
that
was
our
hope
and
our
goal.
C
D
So
we
we
continued
to
be
on
a
week-to-week
basis
of
allocation
in
terms
of
vaccine
supply.
Last
week
was
complicated
further
by
the
severe
weather
across
the
united
states,
impacting
supply
chain
delivery.
We
currently
have
enough
supply
for
this
week
and
each
tuesday
we
find
out
what
we
have
for
the
following
week.
E
Dr
tommy
two
questions
for
you:
what
is
being
done
to
address
issues
related
to
long
wait
times
to
cancel
appointments
through
the
call
center
and
secondly,
with
emmanuel
now
being
a
vaccine
site?
Well,
the
capacity
for
for
the
walk-up
testing
change
at
all.
D
So
I'll
answer
the
second
question.
First,
that
was
about
if
capacity
for
walk-up
testing
is
changing
here
at
emmanuel
church.
No,
we're
prepared
to
continue
the
same
amount
of
testing
that
we
have
been
doing
to
date
and
we
we
continue
to
see
people
coming
for
testing,
particularly
essential
workers
who
are
testing
routinely
asymptomatic,
but
just
ensuring
that
they
continue
to
test
negative
due
to
the
nature
of
their
work.
D
The
current
process
is
a
phone-based
process,
but
we
have
multiple
efforts
underway
that
we
anticipate
being
available
within
the
next
few
weeks
to
cancel
via
automated
voice
reminder
via
telephone
via
text
message
and
via
the
email
confirmation
that
is
sent
each
of
those
require
separate
technical
efforts,
so
we're
working
on
all
three
simultaneously
to
see
which
one
we
can
achieve.
First,
together
with
our
various
technical
vendors
and
partners,.