Victoria Penate | Staff Writer
As of Thursday, 9,150 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered to Nevada County residents, according to the state COVID-19 Vaccine dashboard.
This is an increase of 813 doses from Wednesday’s reported total, although numbers do not represent true day-to-day change as reporting may be delayed, according to state health officials.
As of this week, the county has received a total of 10,625 doses, according to a Wednesday release.
Statewide, 3,984,752 doses have been administered as of Thursday, according to the state dashboard.
Currently, according to Nevada County Public Health, residents eligible to receive the vaccine include all of Phase 1A and parts of the first tier of Phase 1B.
Victoria Penate | Staff Writer
As of Wednesday, 8,337 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered to Nevada County residents, according to the state COVID-19 Vaccine dashboard.
The dashboard counts vaccinated individuals’ county of residence, going by the county of vaccine provider only in cases where the vaccination record did not record county of residence although state officials estimate that this applies to less than 1% of vaccination records.
According to a county press release, Nevada County has received 10,625 vaccines as of Wednesday, which includes first and second doses of the vaccine.
At a Wednesday Nevada County COVID-19 Business Task Force meeting, Nevada County Director of Health and Human Services Ryan Gruver said the number of local health care providers working with Public Health to take on and distribute vaccines has grown from 10 last week to around 15.
Nevada County Public Health has partnered with 211 Connecting Point to provide the community text updates when new information about the COVID-19 vaccine in Nevada County becomes available.