Gov. Gavin Newsom will end the COVID state of emergency on Feb. 28, despite warning of a potential winter surge.
On the day Santa Clara County’s public health director pleaded for people to get the latest COVID booster, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that on Feb. 28, he would end the state of emergency that’s been in place since the pandemic began nearly three years ago.
Hours before Newsom’s announcement, Santa Clara County Public Health Director Sara Cody stood at the county fairgrounds where a cavernous hall set up to inject the omicron-specific boosters was nearly empty, and implored people to get the jabs before the holidays. In Santa Clara County alone, only 12% of eligible people have received the updated booster since it was first offered in early September to fight the highly transmissible omicron variants which have managed to infect some people who have had their shots. In comparison, 69% of eligible people got the first booster.
“What we’ve seen so far is a very slow and sluggish uptake of these boosters,” Cody said. “My sense is that the greatest barrier to getting boosted is fatigue – that people are fatigued from managing the pandemic.” She countered recent concerns, expressed by the Florida surgeon general, about possible heart problems among young men who take the booster.
The Bay Area is doing much better than the state — only 5.3% of residents have gotten the new jabs so far. And the counties that have been most reluctant to embrace COVID restrictions, including in the Central Valley and the far northern reaches of the state, lag far behind, the data show.
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