Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/tag/covid-19/)
A new site in Anaheim will proceed as planned despite supply delay concerns. Shelters continue to see Coronavirus outbreaks.
County officials are looking into why their Coronavirus vaccine app Othena didn’t notify some people of appointment delays.
Restrictions on youth and adult recreational sports could soon roll back if OC’s positivity rates keep going down.
A record 40 people died “without fixed abode” in January in OC, again nearly twice as many as died last year prior to Covid-19. Meanwhile while the County continues to dither about how to respond to its homelessness crisis, tempted to try being cruel once again. A Hispanic Center in Santa Ana, shuttered because of the Covid-19 crisis, is being pressured to help expel the homeless persons who have taken refuge in its parking lot. And in Fullerton, following the sun-setting of the County’s only safe parking program, the city is now looking to clamp down on RVs.
OC’s mass Coronavirus vaccination site at Disneyland will temporarily close, due to severe weather across the U.S. delaying local deliveries of vaccine supplies.
White people are getting vaccinated at far greater numbers than nonwhite populations statewide. That gap is apparently wider in Orange County.
County officials have yet to say anything about a vaccination site they’re sponsoring in Santa Ana, one of the cities most affected by Covid 19 infections and deaths.
Those seeking to have their voices heard at public meetings in both cities are now being limited to speaking in person.
Santa Ana officials are facing questions over how they allowed an outdoor flea market with apparently large crowds to happen downtown this past weekend — in a predominantly Latino city that’s been especially ravaged by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Huntington Beach Union High School District has decided to force teachers to in-person instruction despite extremely high Covid-19 risks. Hundreds of students have already organized a strike and plan to protest at the upcoming board meeting on February 9th.