Johnson&Johnson Catches Up

Mendocino County Numbers for 1-29-20Total cases: 3363New cases: 85 (since monday)Active cases: 200Hospitalization: 16ICU: 2Quarantine and isolation: 5257.1% positivity rate18.4 new cases per dayDeaths: 36Vaccine Hotline: (707) 472-7663Mendocino Covid-19 Call Center: 707-472-2759Testing:Optumserv: Ukiah at the fairgrounds 7am to 7pm, seven days a week. Walk ins OK. Free. Website: https://lhi.care/covidtestingFort Bragg Veteran’s Hall EVERY TUESDAY at 9am, Free, First come First Serve. Register at lhi.care/covidtestingMendocino Coast Clinics Free Drive through surveillance testing, Wednesday mornings and Thursday afternoons. Call MCC at 964-1351 to make appointment.Vaccine Clinics:FIRST DOSE EVENT: Tuesday, February 2nd from 11-1:30  at the high school gym for  in home support workers SECOND DOSE EVENT: Wednesday, February 3rd from 9am-4pm. For people who received the Moderna vaccine on Jan 4th or 7th at the Redwood Empire fairgrounds or the Dohnovan Room at the sheriff's dep.Calls How do 65+ folks sign up for a vaccine? The county is starting to roll out the vaccine based on the age criteria, but there is currently an emphasis on 75+ first. Federal health care centers are setting up a database of information so they can reach out to people when they qualify for a vaccine clinic. Paying attention to local vaccine clinic announcements is also an effective way to figure out when and where you can go to get a vaccine.Are there any new vaccines coming out? Johnson & Johnson are currently applying for vaccine approval. They have the capacity and have contracted to provide 100 million doses of the vaccine to the US by June. The Astrazeneca bungled their vaccine clinical trial, so the FDA is hesitant to approve its use. NovaVac is about a month behind Johnson & Johnson when it comes to vaccine approval.Are people going to need a booster shot or extra vaccine to handle the new Covid strains? Not necessarily, but in the fall there may be a push to provide a booster shot depending on what we learn about the new strains.Do regular nurses qualify for the vaccine clinic treating at home care workers? You should be able to contact the Lake county or Mendocino county Public Department of Health to see if you qualify as a frontline healthcare worker, and then be able to go and get the vaccine.Why is there not more transparency about the amount of available vaccines in the county? Different agencies in the county aren’t communicating about how many vaccines that they’re getting, so we don’t have any combined data on the matter.