With more than one million residents in the County, it is not a simple matter of figuring the number of people minus the number of doses given each week to calculate when it will be your turn to get the vaccine.
In the past week, most regions of L.A. County had at least one day where they reported zero or one available ICU beds, including each of these regions: central L.A., the Antelope Valley, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley and Southeast L.A. County. Additional information on how these individuals can choose to receive their vaccines is forthcoming.
The county plans to continue to focus on inoculating health care workers at its mass vaccination site near Petco Park until the week of January 25, according to public health officer Dr. Wilma Wooten. The epidemiology of Covid infections and deaths justifies these recommendations.
According to the CDC, 208,238 people in Washington (2.7% of the population) have been vaccinated with a first dose and 572,600 doses have been delivered to the state as of Wednesday.
Additionally, the community learned Wednesday evening of the death of former Oneida High School teacher and football coach Jared Henry, who died at a Lexington, Ky. hospital from complications of coronavirus.
These groups include seniors age 65 to 74, and anyone age 16 to 74 with one more underlying medical conditions that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined create a greater risk of severe illness.
In western IL, the Brown County Health Department reported seven new COVID cases since Monday, running their case total to 576, with 130 active, one hospitalization and six deaths.
As a result, Scott County's covid case fatality ratio has risen to 1.5%, well above the statewide case fatality ratio. Still, newly reported cases over the last seven days in the nation's most populous state have far outpaced others, such as Texas and Florida - the second- and third-most populated USA states.
In Los Angeles County, now the world's COVID-19 epicenter, approximately one third of the county's residents has been infected with the virus at some point since the beginning of the pandemic, The Los Angeles Times reports. She said the county's top priority remains getting health care workers vaccinated, with hopes of providing doses to another 500,000 such workers by the end of the month. The rate of vaccination has picked up, though.
To be precise, the Covid death toll and the total caseload stood at 1,976,509 and 92,091,033, respectively, as per the latest data released by the university.
The system is set up to inform individuals if they are eligible to receive a vaccine, according to Westrick.
All second doses will be administered at the RSW vaccine site off Daniels Parkway.
Updated numbers this morning showed even more decline, to 604 cases per 100,000 residents over the past two weeks.
"At this time the vaccine supply is very limited". This resembles the Israeli approach.
"We're not done with our health care workers and we actually don't have enough vaccine right now to be able to get done more quickly", Ferrer said.
The number of active cases in the county dropped by 18 Thursday to reach 243; they represented 8.4% of all the cases identified locally and included 198 confirmed cases and 45 probable cases. Again, please do not call Fulton County Public Health for a vaccine appointment at this time.
