Each two doses of covid vaccine that are held in storage today represent potentially taking a life tomorrow and causing a family grief and suffering. Simple math right? Hold back two doses of vaccine from use, you potentially kill one person.
Would it surprise you to learn that Santa Barbara County has several thousand doses of vaccine available to use that is not being released? Simply call your nearest hospital or nearest Sav-On or Vons pharmacy and ask how many doses of vaccine they have, and let the truth speak for itself. Do the math in terms of lives.
The Independent participated on Friday January 15 at a press conference where the Santa Barbara County Health Department, bending to public pressure, decided to expand eligibility beyond the health-care workers that have been already vaccinated for at least a month to those 75+ but only beginning five days later on January 20. That represents five days of delayed immunity, five days of unnecessary extra death, five days of unnecessarily depriving proper health care to county residents.