Nine pharmaceutical companies are currently doing human clinical trials for their COVID-19 vaccines, including Pfizer and Moderna.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to approve a vaccine. However, during a virtual coronavirus briefing on Nov. 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom said that California will receive a specific allocation of the vaccine. He said California is anticipating getting approximately 327,000 doses of a vaccine for COVID-19 in mid-December that will most likely come from Pfizer.
Pfizer and Moderna have submitted data from their clinical trials to the FDA to review, and the agency is set to consider Pfizer’s vaccine at a Dec. 10 meeting. Moderna’s will be discussed a week later. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), when a vaccine is authorized, its anticipated supply will be limited.
The challenge, Newsom said, is that the vaccine must be stored at very low temperatures. Those who receive the first dose require a second one that could be given in the following three weeks.
San Luis Obispo County’s Public Health Department is trying to anticipate the local needs for distributing a vaccine, but officials said that plans hinge on further instructions and guidance from the federal and state governments.
Whitney Szentesi, the lead public information officer for the health department, told New Times that the department has been preparing for mass vaccination events for years and managed a successful drive-through flu shot clinic in October to serve as a drill and help it prepare for an eventual COVID-19 vaccine.
In Santa Barbara County, Public Information Officer Jackie Ruiz said its Public Health Department is working closely with the California Department of Public Health and formed a Partner COVID Vaccination Workgroup to prepare health care partners to administer a vaccine once it’s available.
“It is anticipated that there will be a limited amount of vaccine initially, and this will be prioritized in tiers, with potentially the first for high-risk health care workers, including hospital, skilled nursing and assisted living workers, and first responders, and the next for individuals at highest risk for developing severe illness, such as residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities,” Ruiz said.
It’s a potential prioritization list, because Santa Barbara County, like San Luis Obispo, is awaiting guidance on finalized prioritization categories from the CDC and state Department of Public Health.
In an effort to distribute the future vaccine in a fair, ethical, and transparent way, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine gave input to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which will make recommendations to the CDC director once a vaccine is approved for use. The advisory committee is made up of scientists and public health experts who review and create recommendations for all vaccines.
On Dec. 1, the advisory committee approved a recommendation that when a COVID-19 vaccine is authorized by the FDA, it should be given to both health care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities. The CDC website states that the recommendation was adopted by the CDC director.
“We are currently working with health care facilities and first responder agencies to get an accurate number of at-risk staff, and residents within facilities, to inform our planning process,” Ruiz said,
Santa Barbara County hopes to carry out the vaccination by using a phased approach, so it can help set expectations for the community about when they’ll have an opportunity to be vaccinated.
“This rollout will intentionally focus on those most at-risk for being in contact with the virus first,” Ruiz said.
Local hospitals, such as those owned by Dignity Health, expect that priority will be given to health care workers involved directly with patient care and those most vulnerable to the virus.
Spokesperson Sara San Juan said that Dignity plans to provide the COVID-19 vaccine at its hospital locations as well as its Dignity Health Urgent Care centers.
“While we are encouraged by the news about the progress of vaccine development, we must remain vigilant and follow CDC guidelines—including wearing a mask and social distancing—to stop the spread of COVID-19,” she said.
Before administering the vaccine, San Juan said, Dignity has assembled a team of infectious disease and immunology experts to review the new vaccine applications to evaluate their safety and efficiency.
“At this time, employees will be encouraged but not required to receive the vaccine. Local, state, and federal agencies may require the vaccination for some health care workers,” she said.
Aside from the FDA, California established a Scientific Safety Review Workgroup to closely monitor all available information about the potential COVID-19 vaccines, including the vaccine trials, the FDA review process, and any independent evaluations.
SLO County Public Health Officer Penny Borenstein said she wants people to know that a safe and effective vaccine is one of the most important interventions to end the COVID-19 pandemic, and local health officials are committed to distributing a safe vaccine when it is available. Δ
Staff writer Karen Garcia can be reached at kgarcia@newtimesslo.com.
This article appears in Dec 3-10, 2020.
Penny Borenstein is a tool of the state, and she is paid to read from the script handed to her by governor Newssolini, who reads a script given to him by Kill Bill Gates. They are puppets of evil forces, and furthermore, they do not make laws. What kind of hubris, you may be asking, allows me to make such statements?
I strongly encourage readers to dig a little deeper into the “pandemic” as I have done since January 2020, and you will find that the current “official Covid-19 death toll in the United States of around 269,000 people” is based on lies. First, the Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, according to its inventor, Kary Mullis, is not a diagnostic tool; it doesn’t test for infection. Therefore, “positive” and “negative” test results mean absolutely nothing. Nothing. Second, we have been told by officials since spring that medical professionals have been instructed to use the RT-CR test on EVERY patient and to label any and all deaths, regardless of primary cause, as Covid-19 deaths. In many cases, they are re-testing in order to get “positive” results. Third, because these deaths have been purposefully RE-DESIGNATED as Covid-19 deaths, we see clearly in the CDC charts that deaths by heart attack, pneumonia, and other causes—which reliably kill similar numbers of folks in every other recent year but 2020—have dramatically declined. One only sees a handful of deaths by the flu and other respiratory diseases in addition to heart attack, cancer, etc. All these deaths have simply been shifted into the Covid category, meaning that there are no deaths by, from, or of Covid-19 because it doesn’t exist as a deadly pathogen. The CDC itself has issued a recent report which states, buried on page 39, that they haven’t isolated and purified Covid-19, therefore, we can only see computer generated models. Why would a world leader in disease NOT HAVE this isolated “virus”? And then how can we justify the extremely cruel “slow-the-spread” measures?
Furthermore, if we don’t call out these lies, the blatant abuse of the PCR test as a [fake] diagnostic tool will expand to justify mandated “testing” and jabs with the poison dart (mRNA or modified RNA vaxxes), since virtually every human being would eventually test “positive.” If you haven’t looked into these poison darts, please view videos by Dr. Carrie Madej for more details. Essentially, the mRNA vaxxes that will be utilized in this false “treatment” of a false “virus” contain nanotechnology designed to splice our DNA, turning human beings into cyborgs owned by the globalists, or killing the most vulnerable of us before the forced repeat doses completely cut us off from our critical thinking and our divinity (what was left of it after most people voluntarily sold that out for constant entertainment, technology, and fake food).
After the vaxx accepters’ DNA is sufficiently spliced into the genome following the required multiple doses and all the nanotech has turned these humans into partial computers, uploading and downloading to the Internet of Things, they would basically be unable to cure themselves of any disease or disorder without taking more of the dehumanizing nanotechnology “medicine.” Those of us who refuse the jab because of religious/moral and medical—or really any non-consent—reasons would be pushed further to the edges of society, devoid of the “privileges” given to folks too morally weak to question and stand up to this evil Covid-19 narrative being played out on the world stage. And you thought you already felt like a slave to government, to your job, to social pressures—that “normal” you want to get back to by taking the jab will seem like paradise compared to the totalitarian hell that awaits.
Anyone who advocates for the cruel Covid-19 measures, including forced jabs and a social credit system, is advocating for the current and future results to their fellow humans: Destruction, depression, desperation, debt, and death.