By Pepper Fisher
PORT ANGELES – The Covid-19 briefing that would have occurred last Friday was moved to this morning because of the holiday. The latest numbers as of midnight put Clallam County at 728 total cases, with 2 patients moved to the hospital over the weekend. One of those is in ICU.
Our rate per 100K in the last 2 weeks is 134, and percentage of positivity is 3.9, a number that Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry Unthank says is still moving in the right direction.
As for the vaccines, Dr. Unthank says we got another 2500 doses in the last week, which she says should be enough to vaccinate all of our health care providers and high risk first responders in the coming days. She says the Health Dept. will start distributing the vaccine to all area clinics this week to vaccinate their staff members and patients in the 1A group.
Dr. Unthank says it’s still unclear exactly who will be next in line in the 1B group, but she expects state officials to announce that soon, and for those folks to begin receiving vaccination in mid-January.
She says no one in the general public is getting the shot anywhere in the state of Washington at this time.