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County of Santa Clara County COVID-19 Testing Officer, Dr. Marty Fenstersheib and COVID-19 Director of Health Care Preparedness, Dr. Ahmad Kamal address the COVID-19 vaccine planning efforts and provide updated information on ICU capacity.
Recorded December 7, 2020.
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... of Santa Clara Health officials discuss updates on hospital capacity, vaccine distribution, and travel quarantine.
C
To
share
our
progress
made
to
date
on
the
county's
covet
19
vaccination
plans.
In
our
ongoing
efforts
to
uphold
transparency,
you
will
hear
from
dr
marti
fenstersheim
providing
the
latest
updates.
You
will
also
hear
from
dr
ahmad
kamal
today
the
county's
director
of
healthcare
preparedness
to
provide
the
latest
updates
on
our
on
our
icu
capacity.
C
D
Thank
you
good
afternoon.
I
wanted
to
let
everyone
know
that
the
county
has
been
working
diligently
to
prepare
for
receiving
the
first
allocation
of
vaccine
and
that
we
are
expecting
that
to
arrive
around
december
15th.
To
that
end,
we've
been
preparing
logistically
for
this
for
the
pfizer
vaccine,
which
most
likely
will
be
the
first
vaccine.
That's
approved.
None
of
the
vaccines
have
been
approved
yet
and
that
will
occur
after
the
vaccine
manufacturers
meet
on
december
10th
and
get
an
approval
from
the
fda.
That's
the
pfizer
vaccine.
D
D
We
certainly
will
not
get
enough
vaccine
for
both
of
those
large
groups,
but
this
is
the
first
allocation
and
we
expect
subsequent
allocations
over
the
next
several
weeks
the
hospitals
are
preparing
and
have
prepared
to
receive
this
vaccine.
The
pfizer
vaccine,
as
you
know,
requires
very
low
storage
and
special
freezers,
and
so
the
hospitals
are
preparing
for
that
and
the
county.
Also,
the
health
department
has
purchased
those
freezers,
so
we
will
also
be
prepared.
D
The
hospitals
will
be
vaccinating
their
own
healthcare
providers
within
their
facility
and
the
county
is
going
to
focus
on
vaccinating
staff
at
the
long-term
care
resident
facilities,
mostly
the
skilled
nursing
facilities.
Those
are
very
high
risk
facilities,
just
for
instance,
they
have
about
five
percent
of
all
of
our
coveted
cases,
but
represent
over
45
of
the
deaths
from
covid.
So
again,
a
very
high
risk
area
subsequently
to
this
prioritization,
the
acip
this.
That
federal
agency
will
give
us
additional
priorities
which
will
be
followed
by
the
state
and
by
the
by
us.
D
As
we
get
more
vaccine
and
again
over
time,
we
will
most
likely
see
the
modern
vaccine
and
some
additional
vaccines
over
the
course
of
a
few
months.
Eventually,
we
will
expand
the
vaccine
for
priorities
to
other
members
of
our
community
again,
as
we
are
being
directed
that
will
come
over
the
over
the
next
several
weeks
to
several
months,
and
so
this,
the
vaccination
program
will
take
quite
some
time,
probably
well
into
the
next
spring
and
summer,
to
complete.
D
We
want
to
remind
everybody,
though,
as
we
start
to
give
vaccinations,
that
does
not
mean
that
we
should
not
be
as
diligent
and
vigilant
about
our
prevention
measures.
So
even
as
we
start
giving
vaccines,
we
want
to
make
sure
people
remain
vigilant,
put
keep
their
mask
on
keep
all
of
the
social
distancing
guidances
that
we
have
said
so
more
updates
as
we
receive
them,
but
that's
where
we
are
at
this
point.
Thank
you.
E
Good
afternoon
yesterday,
our
county
set
a
new
record
with
1450
new
patients
diagnosed
with
covid.
To
put
that
into
perspective,
this
is
double
the
record
we
set
just
last
week.
We
are
clearly
seeing
increased
levels
of
transmission
in
our
community
and
we
know
from
historic
data
that
about
10
of
individuals
diagnosed
with
covid
will
need
hospitalization.
E
With
that,
we
are
very
concerned
about
our
healthcare
systems
capacity,
in
particular
when
it
comes
to
icu
beds.
As
of
today,
we
have
50
empty
icu
beds
remaining
in
our
county.
That's
50
beds
for
a
county
of
2
million
people
to
care
not
just
for
covid,
but
to
care
for
everyone
who
needs
critical
care
in
a
hospital.
E
Many
of
our
hospitals
can
continue
to
have
five
or
fewer
vacant
icu
beds,
the
hospitals
are
doing
their
part.
They
are
working
very
hard
to
balance
the
load
amongst
themselves.
They
are
cancelling
elective
surgeries,
they
are
finding
nurses
in
their
systems
and
deploying
them
to
the
most
critically
ill
patients.
E
The
county
is
also
looking
at
all
options,
including
sites
where
people
may
be
able
to
get
care
looking
with
our
regional
county
partners
at
how
we
may
be
able
to
expand
options
for
treatment,
but
we
cannot
do
this
alone.
We
need
to
all
redouble
our
efforts
right
now
to
help
prevent
the
spread
of
covid.
E
E
C
C
C
A
number
of
questions
there,
so
the
question
is:
will
the
county
be
deviating
from
the
vaccine
distribution
recommendations
made
at
the
state
level,
and
is
it
ultimately
is
that
a
decision
that
counties
are
empowered
to
make
so
we'll
turn
to
dr
marty
fenstership
to
answer
that
question?
Okay,
thank.
D
We
know
that
the
vaccine
again
is
not
going
to
be
coming
in
the
large
numbers
that
we
will
need
it,
and
so
we
expect
the
state
to
give
us
some
additional
tools
to
do
some
of
the
sub
prioritization
that
we
will
need,
including
making
sure
that
we
meet
all
of
the
equity
requirements
so
that
the
people
that
are
most
impacted
by
this
disease
will
have
an
opportunity
to
receive
vaccine.
That's
all
going
to
come
we're
following
a
strict
guidance
from
them,
and
hopefully
everything
will
roll
out
smoothly
over
time.
C
Okay.
So
this
concludes
the
english
language
portion
of
our
presentation
today
to
ensure
that
this
message
is
received
by
as
many
of
our
residents
as
possible,
we
will
now
have
a
public.
A
pio
representative
provide
the
state
today
statement
in
spanish,
followed
by
a
pio
representative,
to
provide
today's
statement
in
vietnamese
and
they
will
both
be
available
for
further
comment
and
statements
for
one-on-one
interviews
afterwards.
Thank
you.