While thousands of people browse websites in Santa Clara County every day looking for a coveted meeting with the COVID vaccine, it was a shocking revelation that in just five days, no more than 4,000 people showed up to be confirmed to be shoot.
About 10% of vaccine appointments made at county-run locations are not shows, and because of that, at the Santa Clara County fair on Saturday, there were about 300 additional vaccines that have already been thawed and are due to expire the next day.
Dozens of Santa Clara County employees rushed to the San Jose fair on Saturday after receiving phone calls and emails that they could receive a COVID vaccine at the last minute.
Several open vaccination sites at the Santa Clara County Exhibition Center have led to last-minute vaccinations for those sitting nearby. Reported by Ian Cull.
County Public Defender Brett Hammond was shot dead.
“I’m excited,” he said. “My mother lives ten minutes away and I haven’t been able to hug her in a year. So I can meet my family again, but I don’t think they should reach the warning at 4pm on Saturday that there are extra doses. I think public defenders should get it because they have such a high exposure. ”
The county said that due to the increase in the number of people who do not show up for their appointments for the COVID vaccine, it had additional doses, so it contacted the public and asked county workers to come and receive a vaccine so as not to waste it.
On Monday, NBC Bay Area found out how big the issue of non-appearance is on county-run sites, including Levi’s Stadium.
Between February 8-12, 4,517 people did not attend the meetings.
The county said it doesn’t know why there aren’t so many shows. One possibility is that people could make several meetings for fear that one might be canceled.
The last-minute vaccine remnants from the fair meant that some county employees who were not actually eligible received a vaccine.
The director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Dr. David Magnus, said the county needs to plan better to ensure that vaccines are distributed fairly.
“With a waiting list available and a plan to alleviate the problem, so that there are no good doses and little time left to deal with it,” said Magnus.
The good news is that the county said no vaccines were wasted, despite the large number of absences.