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California Phase 1A, 1B & 1C vaccination guidelines
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I chased down the 2.5M people for the 1A group that were quoted above (Slide 24 of CVAC mtg #4, Dec 23)

The number comes from 2.5M healthcare workers minus 0.4M not at risk plus 0.4M residents in LTCF.

This number indicates that  2.5/39.5 = 6.3% of the CA population are health care workers.
This stands in stark contrast to Florida where there are about 500K healthcare workers for 21.5M people, or 2.3%.



In my opinion, California's Community Vaccine Advisory Committee got its head stuck in the Critical Infrastructure vise.  The slides for meeting #3 (Dec 9) when they were setting up phase 1A never mention older people or LTCFs as members of 1A.  Their numbers were not considered.
Age was only mentioned in relation to essential workers.

If you go back to CVAC  Meeting #2 (Nov 30), you will see in slide 16 and 17 that the CVAC was not going to include LTCF residents unless the CDC ACIP committee included it.  In this meeting, the estimates were 2.4M healthcare workers minus 0.4M at no risk, and 0.4M LTCF residents.

Meeting 3 indicates  2.5M Healthcare Workers (slide 31).
GACH Healthcare Workers 733,857  (General Acute Care Hospital)
Healthcare Workers 1,338,750
MCE Healthcare Workers 477,873  (Multi County Entity -  Kaiser, Sutter Health, etc.)
Total 2,550,480


Immediately after meeting #3, announcements were made that dentists were considered to be part of phase 1A.  "Dentist" does not appear in the slides for the meeting, nor do the 2.5M healthcare workers seem to include the 36,000 dentists.

California didn't provide any organized mechanism for vaccinating LTCF until a December 28 announcement of California joining a federal program for CVS & Walgreens to provide vaccinations to 856 nursing homes.  At that time, it was estimated that it would take 3-4 weeks to complete.

The CDPH database of Licensed Healthcare Facilities indicates 2577 Long Term Care facilities (1209 Skilled Nursing Facilities, 1104 Intermediate Care Facilities (mostly < 20 beds; one 1450 beds).

That database does not include all places that provide assisted living facilities.  As an example, Sunrise in Palo Alto is not listed, but it is listed in SCC's list of LTCFs.
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RE: California Phase 1A, 1B & 1C vaccination guidelines - by M_T - 01-11-2021, 06:57 AM

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