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Placer County Public Health will hold two walk-up flu shot clinics this year partnering with local organizations.

"We obviously saw a spread of delta among lower levels even among people who were vaccinated," said Dr. Rob Oldham, the Placer director of health and human services.

Placer County Public Health has issued a warning for residents to use "higher quality" face masks to protect against the delta variant, as hospitalizations spike.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom routinely boasts that California has “one of the highest vaccination rates in the United States of America.” Yet Newsom rarely mentions that vaccinations have largely stagnated in Black and Latino neighborhoods hardest hit by the coronavirus, and in rural outposts where opposition to vaccines runs rampant. In these communities, deep distrust of government and the U.S. healthcare system has collided with California’s high-stakes effort to finish inoculating its 34 million vaccine-eligible residents. These are places where state health officials believe ...

LA, San Francisco move to California's loosest COVID tier. Sacramento, Placer stay in red Sacramento Bee 5/4/2021 Michael McGough, The Sacramento Bee May 4—California health officials promoted four counties into looser levels of COVID-19 restrictions Tuesday morning due to vast improvement in infection numbers, including two of the state's major urban hubs. Los Angeles and San Francisco along with Trinity County advanced from the orange tier into yellow. Inyo County also advanced from red to orange. Marin County, which had entered this week eligible to join the yellow tier...