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The trial of two men accused in the 2018 slaying of 70-year-old Stan Norman has been vacated yet again and will not take place this month, attorneys say.
It looks like Nevada County has no intention of making its own mask mandate.
As of May 16, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s mask guidance is that fully vaccinated people “can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.”
Asked whether county officials had any plans to set more restrictive guidelines than those dictated by the state, Nevada County Director of Public Health Jill Blake said last week that this was not the case.
Blake explained that, while local health jurisdictions are able to set stricter guidelines than the state, the decision to do so cannot be “arbitrary,” and must instead be based on indicators such as a surge in COVID-19 related hospitalizations or other risk factors a situation she said Nevada County was not in.
Grass Valley’s Deborah Hassfeld watches nurse Joey Chandler administer her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine Thursday morning at the Whispering Pines vaccination clinic in Grass Valley. Nevada County Public Health recently announced that those 16 and over will now be available to make appointments for the inoculation through the MyTurn app.
Photo: Elias Funez
Dave Kecy chooses not to look as he receives his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Nalini Wilzbach Thursday morning at the Whispering Pines vaccine clinic.
Photo: Elias Funez
Whispering Pines Physician’s Assistant Donna Tully shows a representation of the vaccine’s antibodies attaching to the COVID-19 virus.
Nevada County Public Health announced today that they have opened up COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to those 16 and older at their clinics, two weeks before the eligibility is set to expand to this group statewide.
According to a release, this expansion in eligibility is for Public Health clinics specifically.
Eligibility also opened to those 50 and older at all providers today as part of a statewide expansion in eligibility.
“Public Health has seen the availability in our appointment scheduling system increase in the last few weeks, so we have opened up eligibility for Nevada County Public Health clinics to everyone 16 and older,” read the release.