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Cottage Health provides update on vaccination, hospitalizations on Central Coast
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and last updated 2021-01-21 19:03:55-05
Cottage Health in Santa Barbara County says COVID-19 vaccinations will be administered as supplies are received. Meanwhile its hospitals are managing a surge in hospitalizations due to the spread of the virus.
According to Cottage Health, its hospitals report community transmissions at 15% for the 7-day testing positivity rate.
Cottage Health says its most urgent priority is to have an adequate amount of resources to keep up with the surge of hospitalizations.
Last week, COVID hospitalizations surged over 100 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital for the first time.
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Cottage Health Hospital in Santa Barbara preparing for COVID-19 vaccine
and last updated 2020-12-14 21:19:59-05
With health care workers across the U.S. receiving the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, local hospitals say they ve been preparing for it.
Health officials at Cottage Health in Santa Barbara County say part of that preparation requires a very important tool in which vaccines need to be stored. Of course, one of the challenges with the Pfizer vaccine is the need to store it at that ultra-cold temperature for that length of time that you are ready to start administering it,â said Lynn N. Fitzgibbons, Infectious Disease Specialist.