SBC Public HealthBy the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department reminds the community that flu vaccination along with COVID-19 vaccination are critical in reducing the overall impact of respiratory illnesses on the community. The updated, more protective flu vaccines and COVID-19 boosters are available broadly for those eligible. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention recommend that all people six months of age and older receive a flu vaccine every year. It is also critical for everyone ages 5 and up to receive the updated COVID-19 booster if it has been two months since their last COVID-19 vaccine dose, regardless of the type of dose received.
Respiratory infections, including Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), are on the rise in California, including here in Santa Barbara county. Persons with RSV infection typically have fever, cough, wheezing and runny nose. Infants and young children may be irritable, lethargic, feed poorly and have no fever. Persons may have RSV if they have respiratory symptoms and test negative for COVID-19 or flu. Although no vaccines are available to prevent RSV infections, antiviral treatments can be offered, especially for those at high risk for severe disease such as infants and older adults. Connect with your healthcare provider if you are experiencing symptoms and may
be at high risk.
“County Public Health is working closely with local healthcare providers to ensure prevention and treatment strategies are top of mind this fall and winter season,” shared Paige Batson, Deputy Director for Community Health. “Increases in RSV infections are being seen early this year which makes it especially critical for community members to get vaccinated against flu and COVID-19 as soon as possible.”
Flu and COVID-19 vaccination reduce the risk of disease, hospitalization and death. It is recommended to get a COVID-19 vaccine and a flu vaccine at the same time if you are eligible and the timing coincides. Even though both vaccines can be given at the same visit, people should follow the recommended schedule for either vaccine. It’s important to consider that it takes about two weeks after vaccination to develop antibodies that offer protection.
Vaccines are available from your usual health care provider as well as pharmacies. Many employers, schools, colleges, and universities also offer them. If you don't have a doctor to go to regularly, you can locate flu vaccine and COVID-19 vaccine providers in Santa Barbara County at https://www.vaccines.gov/.
For more information about local COVID-19 impacts, flu season reports, and preventing respiratory illness, visit http://sbcphd.org/.
No one finds it backwards that the UC system requires covid vaccines AND boosters but not annual flu shots, when the mortality rate for the flu his higher for that age bracket AND the flu shots are more effective at preventing a flu infection than a covid shot is at preventing a covid infection? We’re 2.5 years into this and still placing covid health concerns above all others. When can we return to rationality?
Nope. As we all have known for years, covid is much more contagious than the flu. Also, old people and people who are immunocompromised are still at risk of death from covid. Both kind of people work with and interact daily with the students. Pretty simple.
“Mortality rate”….
Anyone? Any data out there the boosters, even the “new” one, does anything to prevent transmission? Should be readily available for people to have such a staunch belief that it does. Not saying it doesn’t reduce the severity in those at risk FYI.
And, asalways, one has to remind the idiots that no vaccine has ever prevented transmission 100%.
It is nice to know, however, that the COVID mRNA vaccines have been remarkably effective in both reducing transmission and reducing severity.
2:25 – Posting nonsense from his social media propaganda feed again. Tsk tsk. It’s false:
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-britain/fact-check-meme-comparing-covid-19-and-flu-deaths-downplays-seriousness-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-idUSL1N2RB1FG
Six…..
Seven…….
Enjoy your never-ending story/dialogue, guys! 🙂
Guess it’s true, no one watches CNN anymore.
If you did you would have seen CDC Director Walensky staring the vaccines don’t prevent transmission. Here it is for you to watch her in her own words.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=swlUv2SbmT8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PLHKgZuwsHPq/
True. And if you knew anything about vaccines, you’d know that no vaccine has ever prevented transmission 100%. But they do greatly reduce transmission, and especially disease severity.
Did you read the FDA EUA Approval for the vaccines? Per the FDA Approval letter, they were approved to prevent the transmission of the disease. But Pfizer never tested for transmission.
Obviously you don’t question why Pfizer never testing for transmission is such big news? After all Wakensjy, Fauci, Biden all said you don’t get sick and you won’t spread it. Did you watch the video compilation of them all stating such in their own words?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PLHKgZuwsHPq/
How about Pfizer also stating they never did clinical trials on pregnant women. But Wakensjy, Fauci, Biden said it was safe for pregnant women.
How do they know if no clinical trials were done?
When was the last time you got a polio booster?
Right, don’t ask questions
You know the shot wears off by 6 months. So that means you’re in your 8th shot? Good for you.
LETMEGO – I know, I know, heck we ALL know……. but apparently though, VOICE just found this out and is having trouble with the concept. We have to just let him work it out on his own, while we continue to move forward.
I’m glad you acknowledge that Sac, weird how you keep trying to argue otherwise, actually not weird, par. If I said the sky was blue you’d argue that too. I must of missed your apologies for all the ill will you wished on those who were hesitant or didn’t want to get the vaccine, you know, those darn “grandma killers”. I guess we’ll just sweep that under the rug. Unfortunate you can’t acknowledge that some of your closely held beliefs over the years have been wrong, and do some self reflection about what other beliefs may not be as accurate as you think before you continue to dismiss others as “propaganda” “misinformation”, “lies” “FUD” etc.
People who refused to get vaccinated because they fell for the right wing lies and then ended up infecting and killing family and friends deserve no apology.
You just acknowledged that “we ALL know” the covid vaccine doesn’t stop transmission, and now you say the right wingers who didn’t get vaccinated ended up “infecting and killing family and friends deserve no apology”. Do you not see the inconsistencies in your flawed logic?
“we ALL know” the covid vaccine doesn’t COMPLETELY STOP transmission.
There, to clarify the words you put in my mouth.
You wrote it, not me. That’s not putting words in your mouth. And the Director of the CDC disagrees with you so there’s that too. But go on….
Only a handful of vaccines before the mRNA vaccines for COVID had efficacy approaching 90%. A 50% efficacy used to be considered excellent.
And I realize that your only purpose is to spread antivax FUD, so you’ll persist in posting falsehoods, but for others who may be new to this, it’s important to educate them so they don’t believe the dangerous nonsense you fools continually peddle.
No vaccine has ever prevented transmission 100%. But, to stop an epidemic, you apply vaccines to reduce the Rnought replication factor of the pathogen. Even a small reduction in Rnought has a tremendous impact on the progression of an epidemic, because its effect is exponential. That’s why even a 50% efficacy does wonders for public health.
It’s all been explained, ad nauseam, and you still do (and will) continue to spread your horse manure, because instead of using critical thinking, you only repeat what your tribal propaganda feeds you.
How are comment strains like yours allowed on Edhat.
I’m convinced you come from outside the community and use ad hominem.
In the same comment you personally attack someone at least 4 times and in doing so, you back up your reason with something you admit may have only had a 50% probability of being right.
Could you imagine? Lets go to the horse track. You pick a long shot horse. And when it doesn’t win? You cuss me out because “duh” it wasn’t supposed to win anyway.
VOQ – Congratulations! You can count up to a handful. That’s progress.
COVID vaccines absolutely reduced the Rnought of the pandemic, or we’d still be at huge levels of infection. But it’s not a one-time thing, as the Rnought parameter isn’t a constant, and the virus hasn’t gone away, so continued public health measures are important.
That is simply wrong and not supported by any actual data, just wishful thinking and propaganda @11:18.
Even the head of the CDC knows you are wrong: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky: “Our vaccines are working exceptionally well … but what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.” (Jan. 2022)
“can’t do anymore” – indicates they DID help slow transmission in the past, you know, back when I was upset about you right wingers lying to people to keep them from being vaxxed and then going on to kill their friends and families or themselves.
How many millions of Americans needlessly died because they listened to the vaccine lies you and your president spread 2 years ago? THOSE are the people who will not get my apology. YOU brought that up. That was the past. Things change, but the past remains.
Those “grandma killers” (as you falsely claim I called them), did so at a time when the vax DID help with transmission. See below:
“These results suggest that BNT162b2 is moderately to highly effective in reducing infectivity, via preventing infection and through reducing viral shedding.” — https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00127-7/fulltext
“This is great news – the Pfizer vaccine not only provides protection against becoming ill from SARS-CoV-2, but also helps prevent infection, reducing the potential for the virus to be passed on to others,” — https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-pfizer-vaccine-tra-idUKKBN2AQ1A7
So…. if you’re going to cry about what I said in the past. Keep it in context.
Inform yourself.
Care to elaborate?
1:17 – She thinks vaccines aren’t effective.
Got my “Flu shot” Monday at the ” SB-VA-clinic, also when I attempted to get the “Pfizer covid-19 bivalent booster vaccine” I ended up at Dr. Brewer’s (didn’t realize he was a pediatrician, until I was sitting there with the whole inside children’s playground, oops), both my prior Vacs were Janssen (J&J). Still wearing my MASK because of “other conditions”?
Per the NY State Supreme Court, who reinstated all fired unvaxxed employees and ordered backpay, says the state violated rights, acted arbitrarily and capriciously, and noted “Being vaccinated does not prevent an induvial from contracting or transmitting Covid-19”. All of you who spewed such hate towards people who didn’t clamor over the vax, who demanded they be refused healthcare, treated as second class citizens and locked in their homes, the true science deniers and propaganda believers, we may eventually forgive, but we will not forget. https://eddsa.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/public/85163_2022_George_Garvey_et_al_v_City_of_New_York_et_al_DECISION___ORDER_ON_37.pdf
“Being vaccinated does not prevent an induvial from contracting or transmitting Covid-19” – no shinola, Sherlock. No one ever said it was 100% effective. Never. Not once. Never. Stop pretending to be outraged about this common knowledge. It’s over, give it a rest. The Penalty Box is getting full of your comments. Cut Ed a break!
You keep clinging to that 100% like it might be some non-zero number below that, and you’re wrong. The NY Supreme Court didn’t say “being vaccinated does not 100% prevent” they said “being vaccinated does not prevent”. CDC Director Walensky didn’t say they can’t “prevent 100% (or 75% or 50% or 20%) of transmission” she said it can’t “prevent transmission”. Don’t try to justify you treating others as second class citizens, you and others were 100% wrong to do so, you were the science deniers and propaganda believers. By all means boost up to protect yourself but don’t try to dust bin the position you took on vax mandates and negative consequences it caused millions. We will not forget.
“We will not forget.” – Good. I hope it keeps you up at night thinking how much you praised the former administration and made excuses for its actions that killed thousands, if not millions, of Americans by outright LYING to them about the efficiency of the vaccine. NEVER forget what you supported.
SBLETS: “If you all agree that the Vax does not prevent spreading then why was it required for everyone to get the Vax?
The Vax protected an individual from serious illness.”
You answered your own question. Plus, back then, it DID help slow transmission. Countless studies have been posted confirming this.
Any “fact check” mentioned by VOQ, you can be sure, is merely a concoction of his imagination.
Well them my imagination is an accurate reflection of reality. Typical of you though, attacking the person conveying the information rather than addressing the accuracy of information itself.
Fact check: False. By the time the vaccine, based on the Alpha variant, was available other variants had already become dominant and the bit of transmission protection it did provide was lost. A few month later when Delta became dominant it was all but gone (as it relates to reducing transmission). SB Gets Along, you posed some good questions: “People lost jobs, can’t go to school, we’re prevented from seeing grandma, who was vaccinated. Why? If you knew all along that the vaccinated spread the disease then you knew the vaccinated were to blame for spreading as much as anyone.
Did vaccinated loose their jobs? Why not? They spread the disease just like the unvaxed [sic]”.