COVID in Siskiyou: Got a vaccine at Friday s clinic? Public Health will offer the second dose next month
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Nearly 1,150 people were able to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday at Siskiyou County Public Health s mass clinic, held at the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds.
Those people will need a second dose in approximately two weeks, and will be offered the vaccine at a second clinic, tentatively scheduled for Feb. 12, said Siskiyou Public Health spokesperson Angelica Cook. Those who received vaccines at the Jan. 22 clinic will be notified with more specifics as they become available.
Public health officials recognized their staff and the many volunteers who helped with the well-attended event, including California Highway Patrol Yreka, the Yreka Police Department, Siskiyou County OES, the Siskiyou County Environmental Health Department, the Siskiyou County Probation Department, Mt. Shasta Ambulance and the Siskiyou County Fairgrounds staff.
Love in the time of COVID: marriage licenses can be obtained via email in Siskiyou County
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While COVID-19 has caused most 2020 weddings to be rescheduled or become quick elopements, residents of Siskiyou County can still file for a marriage license despite the pandemic.
“Prior to the pandemic, we issued 17 licenses a month for marriages,” said County Clerk Laura Bynum, noting that the process has “definitely changed” due to the pandemic. Licences can now be issued through mail or email and then dropped in the county s official drop box once processed.
Bynum is offering lovebirds inability to appear since her office is closed. Generally inability to appear is reserved for those who cannot physically appear to sign and process documents due to incarceration or hospitalization.
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The local study is part of a larger effort investigating whether a nasal spray containing the antiseptic Betadine (povidone-iodine) can kill coronavirus in the nose on contact. If it works, Domb said, the product could become an extra layer of protection against coronavirus, to be used in addition to hand washing, wearing masks in public and social distancing from others.
Two-thirds of the study participants will receive the treatment. The rest will receive a placebo, a substance that has no therapeutic effect and is used as a control in testing new drugs.
Participants in the Redding study will go on to self administer five days of nasal sprays at home, according to a promotional notice from Stanford Medicine.
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The Northern California region of the state is now one of two that has not yet been impacted by the new stay-at-home plan announced last week.
Northern California’s availability improved in Thursday’s report from state officials. They say 30.3% of ICU beds in the region are open, up from 27.1% in the previous day’s report.
On Wednesday, the Greater Sacramento region became the third to drop below the 15% ICU availability threshold that triggers further business restrictions. That region includes the following counties: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba.