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Firefighters help administer COVID-19 vaccine doses
Orr, Jason
and last updated 2021-02-04 00:38:25-05
Local first responders helped administer COVID-19 vaccine doses to community members in Santa Maria on Wednesday.
Santa Barbara County firefighters helped give out 500 doses at Allan Hancock College as part of a County effort.
Patients who received the vaccine say the whole process took about 10 minutes. We re out there every day with the patients, treating them, and we ve been seeing them every day so we re offering our help where we can out here for County Health to come out here and give vaccinations, says Blake Brooks a Santa Barbara County Fire Dept. crew member.
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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - Santa Barbara County Public Health reported two more coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday. This brings the countywide death toll to 291.
Public health said both individuals were over the age of 70 and had underlying health conditions.
Neither of these deaths were associated with an outbreak at a congregate care facility.
One person reportedly lived in the City of Santa Barbara/Unincorporated area of Mission Canyon. The second lived in Unincorporated Goleta Valley/Gaviota.
The county said a death is considered to be coronavirus-related when the health department receives a death certificate that lists COVID-19 as the cause of death or a significant contributing factor in the death. The process can sometimes take several weeks to verify.