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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. The COVID-19 vaccine is critical to helping end the pandemic and returning to normalcy. Health experts and doctors believe we need to vaccinate 70-90% of people in order to reach herd immunity. Once we get to herd immunity life can go back to something close to pre-pandemic conditions. However, the longer it takes to achieve herd immunity, the longer COVID-19 restrictions will continue.
There are a lot of COVID-19 vaccine appointments available around Santa Barbara County. There are two main ways to schedule an appointment. Either visit MyTurn.ca.gov or call 2-1-1.
Here is where there are COVID-19 appointments for the week of May 3:
flimflam April 24, 2021 (12:00 am)
i know i sound like a broken record but has Inslee specifically said anything about why he considers indoor dining to be safe? or why, exactly, he decided to change the state’s metrics several times? i recall him telling everyone to not have super bowl parties while simultaneously reopening indoor dining/drinking – a week (more or less) before.
Chemist April 24, 2021 (12:31 am)
For what it’s worth, things are really getting rolling with the city’s vaccination sites. At the beginning of the month I qualified due to co-morbidities and really wanted to get my vaccination at the SW Athletic Complex (a place that had handled my prior COVID testing and I was comfortable going to). I put my name on the notification list and, one lucky day, was able to schedule for Tuesday Apr 13. That same morning they switched from doing J&J to the Pfizer vaccine and were giving audible instructions about coming back in 3 weeks at the same
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Public Health-run vaccination clinics have no fees for patients, regardless of health insurance or immigration status, according to the county. The mobile clinics, where a team of vaccinators travels to community sites around the county, provide free doses as well. Many of the county clinics accept walk-ins now, with no appointment necessary.
COVID-19 vaccination appointments are much more available now than they have been in recent months, when public officials compared the process to searching for in-demand concert tickets online.
For an appointment, search by ZIP code or city on the MyTurn website, at myturn.ca.gov, which has a database of providers and appointments all over California. The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department also has direct links to pharmacies and other providers on its website at publichealthsbc.org/vaccine.
Relying upon traditional knowledge and native plants, indigenous people have been treating illnesses successfully for thousands of years. After the arrival of Europeans on this continent, however, medicine became one of the battlefields in the cultural war.
Both patients and students of healing had to choose between traditional practices and Western medicine. Patients who used herbs or went to medicine people felt compelled to keep that secret from their Western doctors, who wanted to focus upon treating the patient’s body without regard for the mind or spirit.
Indians who went to medical school, meanwhile, found a fiercely competitive, inhumane atmosphere, which would not tolerate their commitments to family or their cultural taboos. Instead of humility, a basic value of Native culture, they found affirmation of egotistical behavior.