Following the reflection, the board heard from Colleen Chawla, director of the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, who provided some reasons for more optimism.
Nearly 15 percent of the Alameda County population has been fully vaccinated from COVID-19 and daily case rates are going down, she said.
Over the past 10 days, 60 to 130 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. That s down from the peak of 1,275 cases reported on Jan. 7.
About 2 million tests for the coronavirus have been completed and nearly 600,000 doses of the vaccine administered, Chawla said. But more work is needed in the Black community around vaccinations, according to Chawla.
The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released demographic data on the populations being served at the state/federal community vaccine clinics in Oakland and Los Angeles.
As of March 7, Cal OES and FEMA had a given a total of more than 250,000 vaccines across both sites, with nearly 34,000 of those vaccines administered at targeted mobile clinics within the community. Of these vaccines, over 67 percent were administered to targeted underserved communities and people of color.
The two locations chosen for these efforts are in some of the most diverse and socioeconomically challenged communities in the country. The goal of establishing these joint federal pilot sites in this manner was to expand the rate of vaccinations in California in an efficient, effective and equitable manner, with an explicit focus on making sure that communities that have been hit hardest by COVID-19 are not left behind.
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Fort Carson soldiers are hearing heartfelt thanks and witnessing tears of gratitude as they help administer vaccinations at a COVID-19 super site in Los Angeles.