10,000 doses of vaccine allocated to Butte County
First allocation reserved for health care workers most at risk of exposure
CHICO » Butte County has been allocated nearly 10,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from the state, with approximately 5,000 of them expected to arrive toward the end of next week. Health care workers most at risk of exposure to the virus will be prioritized in the first delivery.
The allocation includes 3,000 doses of the vaccine from Pfizer and 7,000 doses from Moderna. Butte County Public Health allocated approximately 5,000 of those doses for Enloe Medical Center, the health department said in a press release.
Only those health care workers who have been identified as the most at risk of exposure will receive the vaccine on the first allocation; it is not available to other health care workers and county residents.
This is the first allocation of “Phase 1,” with additional doses to be distributed through the following: the county receives more doses; Butte County Public Health identifies and asks more health care providers to register with the state as a vaccine provider; and, when the next phases of vaccine distribution begin.
Butte County Public Health said it anticipates
additional acute care hospitals in the county will complete the registration process in time to receive allocations in the next order. The first order includes 5,000 doses, according
to Butte County Public Health, and future orders, which will be placed weekly each Thursday, will pull from that remaining allocation under the first phase.
Healthcare providers who have not yet been contacted directly by Butte County Public Health to register with the California Department of Public Health were not identified
as recipients of the vaccine in the first distribution phase.
“BCPH continues to receive information from the federal and state government about vaccine prioritization,
allocation, requirements, and timelines and will continue to share that information with stakeholders and the public as it is received,” the release stated.