Ian Hoffman, Humboldt County health officer, addressed the community about this, as well as what he knows about certain variants of the virus that have been identified, one of which has been found here in Humboldt.
COVID response in Humboldt County, this weekend.
a large lot of Moderna vaccine which was 330,000 doses in the state of California.
And some had already gone into arms here in Humboldt County.
This also will affect some - many second doses of Moderna for people who got their first dose.
We know very little about this variant?
And we know that one person here in Humboldt County had that sequencing come back in a random.
We recognize that not every primary care doctor in Humboldt County.
From the North Coast News: With a lot of the Moderna vaccine sitting on the shelf for the.for another dose of the Moderna vaccine?
in Humboldt County that will not get their second dose on time.
As I mentioned, there were many of those who were scheduled for second doses - 1,900 of them of?the 4,100 were second doses?
From the Redwood News: With the County pausing.the lot of Moderna vaccines made up as much as 90-percent of the doses the County has on hand?
Second doses.
of them were second doses, slated to be second doses and 2,200 were slated to be first doses.
We had been instructed to use as many as 50% of our second doses as first doses?
From the Lost Coast Outpost: Have public health officials identified.delays for local residents waiting to receive their second doses.
will that affect the efficacy of the vaccine?
It will absolutely delay second doses and.that should not change the efficacy of the vaccine at all.
From the Times-Standard: Has Public Health effectively halted vaccine administration.So, we are using every available dose this week in Humboldt County?From the Times-Standard: When are the next batch of vaccines expected to be received.Some of those are Moderna, we don’t know.
We’re also getting second doses of Pfizer today,.
From the Times-Standard: Did the state or CDC provide a timeline explaining when?From the Times-Standard: Can you reiterate how?or maybe they have a doctor outside of Humboldt County
From the Times-Standard: How is the virus spreading in the community right nowa new variant of COVID-19 has been identified in Humboldt County
this for the community, and how long has Humboldt Public Health known about its prevalence here
We do not know the significance of this variant
and we do not know of any other highly contagious variants that have been found in Humboldt County
From the Two Rivers Tribune: With Humboldt County at the highest level of the Blueprint forSo we don’t know of any impact on vaccine efficacy, we have not heard thatthere is an effect on the efficacy of the vaccine
From Reporter Daniel Mintz: The CDPH has announced that the L452R variant, which has caused severalWhat kind of information has county public health been given on this variant
And the one found in Humboldt County was from November and was only one
From the Redheaded Blackbelt: In regard to the variant from the UK (which is found in SouthernFrom the Redheaded Blackbelt: What do you know about the Covid-19 variant that hasbeen detected in Humboldt County, as far as symptomatology as well as transmissibility
So the new variant we know very little aboutFrom the Times-Standard:Can you provide some statistics about the L452R variant in Humboldt County:
From the Times-Standard: Can you talk about how the L452R variant might impact vaccine efficacyand whether the vaccine protects against the variant
We have no evidence at this time that any variants are affecting vaccine efficacy