Driving to Sacramento or Tulare for a COVID vaccine? Read this before looking outside your county
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Some COVID vaccination sites across California have expanded their eligibility to everyone 16 and older before the state’s formal statewide opening Thursday to all residents in that age range, but some are discouraging people from outside their county to sign up for a slot, to allow their local residents to get vaccinated first.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The Chronicle
Bay Area residents having trouble finding COVID-19 vaccine appointments in their area may have luck if they are willing to trek beyond the region but providers are sounding some notes of caution.
The study found that patients who were consistently inactive had 1.73 times greater odds of ICU admission than those who were consistently active, and their odds for death were 2.49 times greater.
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PASADENA, Calif. A Kaiser Permanente study of nearly 50,000 people with COVID-19 suggested that regular physical activity provided strong protection from hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, and death. Even exercising inconsistently lowered the odds for severe COVID-19 outcomes when compared to people who were not active at all.
The study, led by investigators in Kaiser Permanente Southern California, was published in the
British Journal of Sports Medicine. This is a wake-up call for the importance of healthy lifestyles and especially physical activity, said Robert E. Sallis, MD, a family and sports medicine physician at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center. Kaiser Permanente s motivation is to keep people healthy, and this study truly shows how important that is during this pandemic and beyond. People who regularly exercise had the best chance of beating COVID-19, while people who were inactive did much worse.
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A recent study of nearly 50,000 coronavirus patients found that those who were consistently inactive were at greater risk of death due to the virus than those who engaged in exercise. The study, which relied on the Exercise Vital Sign measurement developed by Kaiser Permanente Southern California, found that even those who were active on an inconsistent basis were at lower odds for severe COVID-19 compared to those who were inactive. This is a wake-up call for the importance of healthy lifestyles and especially physical activity, Robert E. Sallis, M.D., a family and sports medicine physician at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center, said, in a news release posted to EurekAlert.org. Kaiser Permanente’s motivation is to keep people healthy, and this study truly shows how important that is during this pandemic and
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