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Romero during a NorthBay Healthcare vaccination event in Green Valley, Tuesday.
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FAIRFIELD — NorthBay Healthcare officials administered 1,170 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine over a three-day clinic that started Saturday. NorthBay used the conference center in Green Valley for the clinic for Primary Care patients who were 65 or older. “We are contacting our patients through the NorthBay portal, email and text messages. For those who don’t have an email or cellphone, we are calling directly,” Aimee Brewer, president of the NorthBay Healthcare Group, said. “We understand the 75-plus population is less likely to use electronic channels – email and text messaging – so we are making phone calls to the older patients to schedule them as well.” The work is anything but over. “It will take some time to complete the two-dose process for those in the 65-and-older group,” said Damaris Valera, assistant vice president of Primary Care. “We have thousands of patients over 65 and are working as quickly
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FAIRFIELD — Solano County Public Health officials will discuss the Covid-19 vaccine rollout and distribution plan in a virtual town hall meeting set for 3:30 p.m. Friday. Supervisor Erin Hannigan will be the moderator. Ted Selby, Health Services administrator, Dr. Christine Wu, deputy health officer and communicable disease chief and Jose Caballero, senior health education specialist, will be the speakers. The topics will include who will be eligible, the order of disas we safely can to schedule and administer the vaccine.” NorthBay also has been involved in vaccinating health care workers and first responders. Over a four-week period, 5,054 doses have been delivered, including 1,743 to NorthBay
tribution, locations and how much vaccine is available to the county. They also will discuss the effectiveness of the vaccine as well as health and safety considerations. The county also will let people know how they can stay informed during the rollout. The meeting will be accessible on the Public Health Facebook page, www.Facebook.com/SolanoCountyPH. Participants will be allowed to ask questions. For those unable to watch the meeting live, the content will continue to be available on the Solano County Public Health Facebook page. For more information, call 784-8988. employees – about two-thirds of the workforce. Another 919 firefighters, police officers, emergency medical responders, home health workers, dentists, private physicians and staff at dialysis centers See Clinic, Page A8
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FAIRFIELD — Solano County averaged 288 new cases over the four days since its last update Friday – a total of 1,152 – taking the overall count Tuesday to 25,806. The extended weekend’s daily average is lower than the daily numbers reported late last week, when the cases climbed by 363 from Thursday to Friday.
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration will look like no other thanks to a once-in-a-century pandemic, security fears triggered by the worst raid on the U.S. Capitol since 1814 and a boycott by the sitting U.S. president. There won’t be the usual 200,000 special guests watching on packed grandstands at the Capitol, with hundreds of thousands more flag-waving Americans filling the National Mall to bear witness. Rather, 12-foot fences topped with razor wire encircle a Capitol grounds being guarded by 25,000 National Guard troops in preparation for a potential second attack. The National Mall is largely off-limits to vehicles and pedestrians, and 200,000 American flags have been planted in memory of the nearly 400,000 Americans who have died from the
novel coronavirus. Huge swaths of downtown Washington have been barricaded and are restricted to residents only. Only about 1,000 members of Congress, governors and their guests – all tested for Covid-19 in the days before being admitted – will be physically present to watch Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris take the oath of office on the West Front of the Capitol. Some elected leaders grappling with the rampaging spread of Covid back home, like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, will not attend. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., stressed that the smaller crowd is result of the pandemic, not the Jan. 6 attack. “This was always going to be small. Now with the insurrection . . . it is necessitated by security to have more security. But it hasn’t changed the nature of the swearing‑in.
The county Public Health Division reported one additional death attributed at least in part to Covid-19 to take the total to 106, and Fairfield – with 298 new Matyas cases – eclipsed the 7,000-case mark at 7,211. “If this is real, we are off the peak,” Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said about the lower daily average in
a phone interview. He said he will have a better idea at the end of the week, but there is still a waiting period before weekend cases start to show up. “I just don’t want to overread what we are seeing,” Matyas said. The new death was a man in his 80s who was getting hospice-level care at home.
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The intensive care unit capacity Tuesday was at 24%, and the seven-day positivity testing rate was at 21.3%. Both are improvements over the Friday report. Hospitalizations were reported at 155. There were 165 hospitalized Friday. Active cases were at 2,105, down more than 700 from Friday when they were at 2,818. All indicators, Matyas See Cases, Page A8
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at The Queen theater, Nov. 5, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware.
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WASHINGTON — Joe Biden will propose a broad immigration overhaul on his first day as president, including a shortened pathway to U.S. citizenship for undocumented migrants – a complete reversal from Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions and crackdowns, but one that faces major roadblocks in Congress. The new president’s legislation would allow the roughly 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. to gain citizenship within eight years instead of 13, according to a Biden tran-
sition official. Unlike past reform measures, it does not include an explicit trade-off of enhanced border security. The proposal would grant work permits for the spouses and children of people with temporary visas. But it would not expand the number of high-skilled foreign workers admitted on H-1B visas, which are widely used in the U.S. technology industry but sometimes criticized by labor groups. With the plan, Biden seeks to deliver on a major campaign promise to Latino voters and
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