All the data says that fully vaccinated people **do not** carry the virus and cannot pass it to others.
That is huge.
The CDC Director made that clear today.
"During an MSNBC interview with Rachel Maddow on Monday, Walensky said: "Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real-world data"
Contra Costa County is planning to expand coronavirus vaccine eligibility this week to *everyone* 16 and older who lives or works in the county.
It does seem clear, despite repeated deferring to the state, that county health departments can expand eligibility at own discretion.
For months now there's been a lot of confusion how much wider counties could expand eligibility beyond what the state allowed for.
Most of the time when we asked if a group/category could be prioritized, our DPH said they couldn't because of the state.
Now some counties are able to apparently open it to anyone immediately. So it does seem that at least as things stand now, counties can make their own decisions on this for the next few weeks before the expansion to all adults on April 15.
I introduced a law being heard tomorrow in committee that will require this data to be shared publicly. It's been weeks since this dashboard went public, yet SFDPH is not including basic information that other Bay Area counties are.
This dashboard doesn't show how many doses we've received, or who has them. We aren't seeing how many have been administered as a % of doses received.
White House is calling out private providers and localities for holding back doses for second doses that are intended as first doses. They want that to stop.
Give people their first dose now, even if that means not holding back 1:1 the second dose.
If providers followed this locally, it would free up tens of thousands of doses, which are currently being held back.
The transparency and clarity in these regular White House COVID briefings is pretty incredible. This is how it should work.
My 91 and 92 year old Grandparents are, like so many San Franciscans, struggling to get straightforward information on the vaccine. This is not acceptable, for them or anyone, I'm working to increase & improve transparency, speed, communication. There are no answers right now.
Like so many other people, I haven't seen my grandparents in person in nearly a year. The last time was my Grandpa's 92nd birthday.
In other states, who are operating with the same priority tiers, many people like my Grandparents (and yours) have already been vaccinated or are at least signing up to be. Entirely unclear why this isn't happening in CA, with so few answers. We have to get moving.
Incredible and unacceptable how few answers our residents are being given right now. It really does seem that other counties, states, cities have been able to provide a lot more information and clarity, and mass distribution. Our city Health Department should too.
"Talk to your healthcare provider" is an entirely and dangerously inadequate answer at this stage.