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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOVID-19 Update Jan 11 2021CORONAVIRUS VACCINE UPDATE City Council Meeting January 11, 2021 Chief of Police Philip Gonshak Seal Beach Police Department Operation Independence ●Announced publically Thursday●Incident Management Team (OC + OCFA)●Regional COVID-19 Supersites●Providing Vaccines in a phased tiered approach●Proactively working 7-days a week to secure locations and stand up large, regional Super Point-of-Dispending(POD) sites capable of thousands of vaccinations per day once fully operational●Maintains fiscal accountability and avoids duplication of efforts at the City level●Anticpating at least five Super PODS that will be brought online throughout the County●www.Othena.com will be updated soon for Phase 1 individuals to self- register for vaccination●More on eligibility to receive the vaccine at www.COVIDVaccineFacts.com OCFA Data Sheets OCFA Data Sheets OCFA Data Sheets December 31, 2020 –January 10, 2021 ●9 infectious calls to Seal Beach Health and Rehab ●8 transports to area hospitals ●7 infectious calls to Sunrise Living Facility ●4 transports to area hospitals ●16 infectious to calls to Leisure World ●11 transports to area hospitals SNF and ALF ●Skilled Nursing Facility●Seal Beach Health and Rehab●32 Deaths●Partnered with local pharamacy and has begun vaccination●Recent outbreak on Jan 1 of 28 patients ●Assisted Living Facility●Sunrise Senior Living●Vaccination planned to start for residents and staff on Wednesday●December 18th –26 residents and 15 staff members tested positive Active Phase 1A Seal Beach Point-Of-Dispensing Sites ●Specific locations pre-screened by an agency that can be utilized for distributing commodities following a disaster or emergency●Open (Public) vs Closed (Commercial)●Currently Seal Beach has plans on file with Orange County Health Care Agency to establish one of each at two undisclosed locations●Currently creating plans to establish two more locations for possible sites in the event city PODS get activated Pfizer/BioNTech ●Completed Clinical Trials Phase 1-3 ○43,931 enrolled ○150 Clinical Sites ○39 US states ○Racial/Ethnic Distribution ■13% Hispanic ■10% African American ■6% Asian ■1% Native American ○45% age 56-85 Moderna ●Completed Clinical Trials Phase 1-3 ○>30,000 enrolled ○89Clinical Sites ○32US states ○Racial/Ethnic Distribution ■20% Hispanic ■10% African American ■4% Asian ■3% all others ○64% age 45 and older (39% 45-64, 25% > 65) Can mRNA vaccines give us COVID-19 and can they change our DNA? ●No ●mRNA vaccines do not use the live virus that causes COVID-19. They CANNOT give someone COVID -19. ●mRNA vaccines DO NOT affect or interact with our DNA Side Effects ●These mRNA vaccines are expected to produce side effects after vaccination ●Common Side effects (worse following 2nd dose): ●fever ●headache ●muscle aches ●No significant safety concerns were identified in the clinical trials. ●At least 8 weeks of safety data were gathered in the trials.It is unusual for side effects to appear more than 8 weeks after vaccination. ●Employers should recognize that minor side effects are expected-but this is a good thing as it may indicate that body is responding and creating it’s antibodies! Supervisors should consider stagger-vaccination to avoid having a whole department call out sick secondary to vaccination infections. ○Source: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/vacc-specific/covid-19/clinical-considerations.html COVID and the Flu ●CDC Flu -estimates that the burden of illness during the 2019–2020 season was moderate with an estimated 38 million people sick with flu, 18 million visits to a health care provider for flu, 400,000 hospitalizations for flu, and 22,000 flu deaths. ●CDC Covid -To date 22.5 million cases and over 375,000 deaths Questions?