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Santa Barbara County residents 50 and older now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – All Santa Barbara County residents over the age of 50 are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Lompoc Valley Medical Center is now taking appointments. At this point, we re accepting anybody that s 50 and older, said LVMC Chief Operations Officer Dr. Naishadh Buch. It s a good thing in general from the standpoint the more people get vaccinated, the quicker we get to general herd immunity.
Dignity Health is also gearing up to take appointments in Santa Barbara County, including those 30 years of age and up in San Luis Obispo County, and are managing appointments at both counties with different rules.
GET IN LINE Just as SLO County gets its bearings for vaccinating the public against COVID-19, California is set to change things by centralizing vaccine distribution. As SLO County hits its COVID-19 vaccine stride by replacing a first-come, first-serve system with a lottery designed to make things more equitable for those eligible to receive vaccines and a multilingual pilot program to vaccinate and educate underserved essential farmworkers, California introduces a more centralized vaccine distribution system. MyTurn, a state web portal for registering first- and second-dose vaccine appointments, is glitchy with major problems. The county is uncertain how the transition to both MyTurn and Blue Shield s impending takeover of state vaccine distribution will affect its progress.