Emergency Preparedness and Response:
January 6, 2021 |
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This Year, Resolve to be Ready
Consider a new year's resolution to be ready for any disaster that might come your way this year. Here are some ideas: - Make an emergency plan: choose a safe place to meet, learn evacuation routes, and establish an out-of-town contact.
- Take a current photo of you and your pet together in case you get separated during a disaster.
- Get to know your neighbor and invite them to be a part of your emergency plan.
- Snap photos of important documents and save them in a secure place or online.
- Set up group text lists so you can communicate with friends and family during emergencies.
- Take a class in CPR and first aid.
- Keep and update emergency supplies; remember to include cash.
- Have back-up power sources available to charge devices in case of a power outage.
- Snap pictures of your property for insurance purposes.
- Check your insurance for coverage on disasters like floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
- Sign up for alerts and warnings. Download the FEMA app to get real-time alerts, safety tips, and locate open shelters.
- Save for a rainy day! Start and grow your emergency fund.
- Financially prepare for the New Year. Find out how with the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit.
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Orange County Health Department
COVID-19 Vaccine Plan
Status of vaccine plan in Orange County
- We are in Phase 1a and many community members are inquiring about scheduling their vaccine. The Orange County Health department will contact you directly when we are ready to schedule. Please be patient.
- Only institutions and individuals in the 1a Phase are being enrolled at this time.
- Individuals in Phases 1b and later do not yet have a link to sign up, nor do we yet have a timeline for when this would occur.
- Please continue to check the OCHD website for when this link will become available: www.orangecountync.gov We will distribute it through media channels and to our community partners, too.
Learn more about the vaccination plan in Orange County:
www.orangecountync.gov/getyourshot
Watch a question and answer session with Quintana Stewart, recorded December 21 with Orange County Government staff:
https://youtu.be/lX3quLY5iZs |
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COVID-19 Vaccine FAQ:If I've already had COVID-19 and recovered, do I still need to get vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine? CDC says:COVID-19 vaccination should be offered to you regardless of whether you already had COVID-19 infection. However, anyone infected with COVID-19 should wait to get vaccinated until after their illness has resolved and after they have met the criteria to stop isolating from others. It is uncommon to be infected again with the virus that causes COVID-19 in the first 90 days after you get infected. That means people with a recent infection may wait to get vaccinated until the end of that 90-day period if they want to. |
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By N. Jamiyla Chisholm Published Nov. 17, 2020 Color LinesAs the nation is experiencing a dangerous and deadly third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black, Indigenous and Latinx people are being hospitalized at a rate four times that of white people, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Specifically, the surveillance summary, which tracks novel coronavirus cases across the country, confirmed an increase in cases since September and a spike in deaths during the first three weeks of October. Between March 1 and November 7, more than 70,000 hospitalization cases were reported and when broken down by race, researchers found: “The age-adjusted hospitalization rate for Hispanic or Latino persons was approximately 4.2 times that of non-Hispanic white persons. Age-adjusted hospitalization rates for non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native persons and non-Hispanic Black persons were approximately 4.1 and 3.9 times those of non-Hispanic White persons, respectively.” “We’ve learned a lot about how to treat this disease as well as more about how to prevent it with wearing masks and social distancing,” Lisa Cooper, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, told ABC17 News about the new data. “The problem is that for people who still are having challenges with access to health care, it doesn’t mean things are getting better for them.” Cooper also stressed that communities of color “are often uninsured or distrust the health care system. They have higher rates of conditions like hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and obesity, which can lead to more severe reactions to Covid-19.”
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These findings fall in line with past reports that have found that the crisis has disproportionately impacted Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities. In April, Colorlines reported that Black and Latinx California residents under age 65 were dying more often than their white and Asian American counterparts, according to a new Los Angeles Times analysis. The CDC published a report in August which confirmed “disproportionate COVID-19 impact in American Indian/Alaska Native populations.” That same report notes that it provides Indian Country with more than $200 million to address the disparity.
To view the most recent COVIDView report, click here. |
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North Carolina COVID-19 Cases
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) reports 582,348 COVID-19 cases, 7,076 deaths, and 3,893 hospitalizations as of January 6, 2021. 109,799 people have been vaccinated, and 461 have completed their series as of January 5, 2021.
There are currently 5,359 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 66 deaths in Orange County as of January 6, 2021. 4,629 people have been vaccinated, and 27 have completed their vaccine series, as of January 5, 2021.
For more information regarding live updates (NCDHHS updates the site every day around noon), please visit the NCDHHS website.
Orange County Health Department also has a COVID-19 dashboard webpage, with information on COVID-19 data in the county. The dashboard will be updated every Tuesday and Thursday.
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COVID-19 Community Resources
For more information on COVID-19 community resources in the county, please visit our webpage. Resources on specific topic areas, such as food access, education, housing, and others, are all accessible on our website, or at the links below. |
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