Vaccination efforts against COVID-19 in the county now include the opening of a site at the Tubman Chávez Community Center. Starting today, the site will offer vaccines against COVID-19 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. every Friday and Saturday.
The Tubman Chávez Community Center site is one of more than a dozen sites operated by the county and its partners. All county clinics vaccinate people Phase 1A and people aged 65 or over in phase 1B and prior appointment required.
A new one interactive map shows all county vaccination sites that offer appointments. The map can be accessed via vaccinationsuperstationsd.com website. People 75 years of age or older who do not have access to a computer or the Internet can call 2-1-1 for help scheduling an appointment.
“We are making an ongoing effort to expand vaccination sites across the county, especially in communities that have been hard hit by COVID-19,” said Wilma J. Wooten, MD, MPH, county public health officer. “When it’s your turn to get vaccinated, take advantage of this free service, because the vaccine is the best tool we have to end this pandemic.”
A new vaccination site will be put online on the San Marcos campus of California State University on Sunday, January 31st. The new pedestrian site will vaccinate people, by appointment, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, and appointments for that location will be available tomorrow afternoon.
County, UC San Diego, looking for health volunteers
County and UC San Diego Health are looking for doctors, nurses and other medical professionals who are COVID-19 vaccinators at the Petco Park Vaccination Super Station. The site offers appointments between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm seven days a week and the greatest need for volunteers is between 12:30 pm and 8:00 pm on weekdays.
Volunteers are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Those interested in volunteering can get more information or sign up here.
Status metrics:
- The adjusted case rate calculated by the state of San Diego County is currently 49.6 cases per 100,000 residents and the region is at the Purple or Tier 1 level.
- The test positivity percentage is 12.6%, placing the county at level 1 or purple level.
- The county health equity metric, which analyzes test positivity for areas with the lowest health conditions, is 16.7% and is at the purple level or level 1. This metric does not moves counties to more restrictive levels, but is required to move to less restrictive levels.
- The California Department of Public Health evaluates counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, February 2nd.
Community configuration outbreaks:
- 11 community outbreaks were confirmed on January 28: three in business settings, two in TK-12 school settings, one in a community-based organization, one in a daycare / preschool / daycare, one in a distribution warehouse, one in a government environment, one in a health environment and one in a retail environment.
- In the last seven days (January 22-28), 59 outbreaks of the community were confirmed.
- The number of community outbreaks remains above the trigger of seven or more in seven days.
- An outbreak of community environment is defined as three or more cases of COVID-19 in one environment and in people from different households during the last 14 days.
Tests:
- On January 28, 28,595 tests were reported in the county and the percentage of new positive cases was 6%.
- The average percentage of 14-day positive cases is 9.0%. The target is less than 8.0%.
- The daily average of 7-day tests is 21,407.
- People at higher risk for COVID-19 with or without symptoms should be tested. People with any symptoms should get tested. Health care workers and essential workers should also be tested, as well as people who have had close contact with a positive case or live in communities that are being severely affected. Those who have recently returned from the trip are also urged to take tests.
Cases:
- On January 28, 1,670 cases were reported in the county. The total for the region is now 234,640.
- 9,785 or 4.2% of all cases required hospitalization.
- 1,401 or 0.6% of all cases and 14.3% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.
Deaths:
- 37 new deaths were recorded for COVID-19 on 28 January. The total for the region is 2,571.
- Between December 29 and January 27, 18 women and 19 men died.
- Of the 37 deaths reported today, 19 people who died were 80 or older, 10 people were 70, five were 60, two were 50 and one was 40.
- 36 had underlying medical conditions and one did not.
More information:
The most detailed data summaries can be found at The county coronavirus-sd.com website they are updated around 5pm daily.