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Santa Barbara First District Supervisor Das Williams — The Latest on Vaccines

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Vaccine Update
Beginning this week, the state has begun to use a 70/30 formula in allocating vaccine doses. 70% of our vaccine doses will go to those who are 65 and over while 30% will be going to those residents who fall under Vaccine Tier 1B: education/child care workers, food and agriculture workers, and emergency services workers.

Vaccine appointments will be made available for Emergency Services Workers, Grocery Workers, and Phase 1A Health Care workers beginning March 1st at 9am on the County’s COVID-19 Vaccine Appointment website.

In addition to those appointments, at least 1,000 vaccines will be dedicated to childcare and education workers beginning next week as well. The first priority group will be teachers and staff working with medically-fragile students. Our Public Health team are working closely with our county’s school districts on allocation of these vaccines, which will begin next week. There will be a special outreach clinic for farmworkers coming soon as well.

Lastly, I wanted to let you know that the Cottage Health waitlist link is now live on our County COVID-19 Vaccine Appointment website. Those 65 and over should continue to check this website frequently for up to date appointment availability.

Vaccination Rate Data:

·     83,630 Doses Received

·     47,427 First Doses Administered

·     25,624 Second Doses Administered

·     87% of Total Doses Administered