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Dr. Michael deBoisblanc is a trauma surgeon and medical director of Trauma and Regional Services for John Muir Health in Contra Costa County, California. For context, the County is about an hour or so East of San Francisco.
As of last Friday, Dr. deBoisblanc no longer holds this position.
Dr. deBoisblanc, along with two other doctors, wrote a letter to Contra Costa County’s Health Director and the Board of Supervisors, basically stating that they believed students and small businesses were suffering unnecessarily under the COVID restrictions. These doctors also said they were deeply concerned about the lockdowns and that science is clear that more lockdowns lead to much more non-COVID morbidity and mortality. This is not news, The CDC’s Dr. Robert Redfield said as much in hearings before Congress.
What we know about the COVID variant found in the U.K.
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BERKELEY, Calif. - Health officials in California say the state lab and other labs are doing DNA sequencing and checking COVID test samples to see if any Californians have been infected with the new coronavirus variant that was first detected in the U.K. So far, none of these labs have detected this strain in California, but we are now changing some of our protocols, and that s a lot of our testing sites are starting to ask about travel history for people who have traveled to Britain, said Contra Costa County Health Officer Dr. Chris Farnitano.
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Large health providers such as Kaiser Permenente and Sutter Health have strong infrastructure for giving vaccines to large numbers of people. (Shutterstock)
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY Front-line health workers and residents of senior care homes and other congregant-care facilities could be given the first COVID-19 vaccines in the next few weeks, as the earliest supplies are delivered, Contra Costa County health officials said Tuesday.
The sooner the better, they added, as COVID-19 infection numbers, infection rates and hospitalizations are rising dramatically in the county, as they are around the Bay Area and beyond.
The first vaccines coming to Contra Costa County figure to be the ones from Pfizer that will need to be frozen at temperatures of 100 degrees below zero (Farenheit), Contra Costa County Health Officer Dr. Chris Farnitano told county supervisors Tuesday.