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GET IN LINE Just as SLO County gets its bearings for vaccinating the public against COVID-19, California is set to change things by centralizing vaccine distribution. As SLO County hits its COVID-19 vaccine stride by replacing a first-come, first-serve system with a lottery designed to make things more equitable for those eligible to receive vaccines and a multilingual pilot program to vaccinate and educate underserved essential farmworkers, California introduces a more centralized vaccine distribution system. MyTurn, a state web portal for registering first- and second-dose vaccine appointments, is glitchy with major problems. The county is uncertain how the transition to both MyTurn and Blue Shield s impending takeover of state vaccine distribution will affect its progress.
New treatment that fights COVID-19 has doctors encouraged
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - There s a new treatment for COVID-19 that s showing great promise in keeping people out of the hospital. Monoclonal antibodies were granted emergency use authorization by the FDA in November, and local health providers have been using them for high-risk patients before severe symptoms develop. It s really the only medicine where we have evidence to use before someone gets sick enough to require oxygen, Cottage Hospital Infectious Disease Dr. David Fisk said.
Fisk calls monoclonal antibodies an important tool in the fight against COVID-19. They can help the immune system respond more effectively to the virus.
Twin Cities Hospital welcomed a baby girl at 3:20 p.m. on Jan. 3.
–After two New Year’s babies were welcomed at Tenet Health Central Coast’s Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, Twin Cities Community Hospital has introduced its first newborn of 2021.
Twin Cities welcomed a baby girl at 3:20 p.m. on Jan. 3. The baby girl was 7 lbs., 11 oz., and 19 inches. The parents asked to keep the names private.
The first baby of 2021 for the county was a boy born at 12:54 a.m. on Jan. 1 at Tenet Health Central Coast’s Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and there was another New Year’s Day baby born there at 12:19 p.m.
Dr. Aiga Charles, medical chief of staff at Twin Cities Hospital, receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. Local frontline health care workers today were among the first to get the COVID-19 vaccine in San Luis Obispo County in an event at the San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department on Friday.
This marks the beginning of local vaccine distribution. Local public health nurses are giving doses first to frontline health care workers and CVS will give doses to those in long-term care facilities. The county will continue to distribute the vaccine in phases until the vaccine is available to all SLO County residents who would like to receive it.