Orange County’s private business owners will continue to have the option to demand proof of coronavirus vaccination from people for entry. Nevertheless, as per Regina Chinsio-Kwong, Deputy Health Officer for the Orange County Health Care Agency, the county is not likely to make it mandatory for businesses.
From August 10 to August 11, 2021, there were 34 more coronavirus-related hospitalization cases in the US county. Overall, the aforesaid agency reported that 495 individuals are hospitalized here. Kwong stated that 96 of them are in the ICU, followed by 9 pediatric coronavirus cases.
As for Kwong, most of the coronavirus disease-related hospitalizations in the nation is producing concern for people without full vaccination. For your information, by full vaccination, we are referring to people with one or more dosages of the coronavirus vaccine. Janssen vaccine from Johnson & Johnson requires people to take only a dosage, whereas Pfizer or Moderna’s vaccine requires one more dose to be effective. Kwong stated that about 90% of those patients are not vaccinated.
With coronavirus cases rising in OC, presenting the vaccination proof as an entry requirement for business locations has turned into a hot topic. At the same time, Los Angeles City Council voted for adopting policies to support the vaccine verification process. The process would require people to prove that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to get into business locations such as restaurants and gymnasiums.
The California Department of Public Health has issued mandates to public sector employees, including healthcare workers and city employees. Outside the said mandates, Kwong does not expect Orange County to be in need of requiring businesses to look for the information for their patrons to access their locations. In a recent press conference, Kwong stated that private businesses would have that option, even as some locations are required to demand proof such as congregate living and healthcare facilities as well as schools.
There is still a slight increase in the coronavirus disease-related hospitalization count around the United States of America. This was on the cards because when the US’s COVID-19 case rates increased earlier, there were delays in hospitalization processes.
Kwong regards the rise in hospitalizations as a troubling situation, since it reduces space for people who require care for conditions other than coronavirus-related issues.
Katrina Foley of the Orange County Board of Supervisors hosted the above-mentioned news conference after the organization stopped addressing Orange County’s coronavirus-related situation. For your information, the Board has stopped releasing updates on COVID-19 as well.
There was no mention of the decision to stop the updates in public. Nevertheless, the decision came weeks following rhetoric against the vaccination from numerous public speakers as well as conspiracy theories about COVID-19 in many meetings with the supervisory board.
On August 10, 2021, it approved a whopping $8 million as part of a new Vaccine Equity Engagement Program. This program is aimed at specific areas in the United States of America that have the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates. The above-mentioned approval will make a group of volunteers encourage people to be vaccinated. As for the volunteers, the potential financial benefit is that they will get $20 per hour for the said action. There are still many people in the households of the United States of America without full vaccination.
