EDC COVID-19 VACCINE WEBSITE
New! (3/2/21) SECOND DOSE ONLY CLINICS AT SOUTH LAKE TAHOE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICE
If you received your first dose at the SLT Public Health office, please click these links to sign up for your second dose:
Monday PM, 3/8/21
https://www.calvax.org/reg/2233916064
Monday all day, 3/15/21
https://www.calvax.org/reg/3971640072
Monday PM, 3/15/21
https://www.calvax.org/reg/6073129396
Thursday all day, 3/18/21
https://www.calvax.org/reg/2634773109
Friday all day, 3/19/21
https://www.calvax.org/reg/9238401677
Monday all day, 3/22/21
https://www.calvax.org/reg/6369370721
New! (3/2/21) LIMITED VACANCIES AT PLACERVILLE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICE & RED HAWK CASINO FOR SENIORS ONLY
Placerville Public Health clinic Wed, March 3, 2021, sign up here: https://www.calvax.org/reg/9510216603
Red Hawk Casino clinic Thursday, March 4, 2021, sign up here: https://www.calvax.org/reg/0913362790
Red Hawk Casino clinic Thursday, March 11, 2021, sign up here: https://www.calvax.org/reg/3618929070
**IMPORTANT REMINDERS for all Participants**
- Participants are seen by appointment only. Attached are instructions on how participants can sign up for their appointments.
- Fill out the COVID-19 Immunization Consent Form prior to your appointment COVID Vaccine Informed Consent (Fillable).pdf
- Bring their Drive License/ID, medical and prescription insurance card to the appointment
- Bring proof of eligibility
- Wear short sleeve shirt if possible
- Do NOT attend clinic if you are feeling unwell or experiencing COVID symptoms
The following statement can be attributed to Carla Hass, Communications Director for El Dorado County, in regard to moving to the less restrictive COVID-19 Red tier:
“We’re very happy about the news that El Dorado County will move from the most restrictive Purple tier where we’ve been since November, to the Red tier, which literally opens the door to more services and activities for our residents.
“This move means we regain some sense of normalcy in our lives and brings a level of relief to our small businesses that have borne the brunt of the pandemic. So many of our residents have suffered enormous economic loss due to the shutdown associated with high levels of positive COVID-19 cases and deaths. This change in status gives them a long-awaited economic boost.
“Starting tomorrow, indoor dining is allowed at 25% capacity, gyms can open at 10% capacity, retailers can open at 50% capacity, and movie theaters can reopen at 25% capacity, among other things.
“That said, this is not the time to relax the behaviors that have gotten us to this point. Even with the tens of thousands or residents who have already been vaccinated, it’s imperative that we continue to take the actions to further protect our residents and visitors. These actions – wearing a mask, keeping physical distance from those outside your household and not gathering with large groups of people – will ultimately be the very things that will get us to the next level of normalcy.
“To put a finer point on that issue, we didn’t make this move based on our daily case rate. We were able to make the move to the Red tier based on meeting the County’s overall test positivity rate and that positivity rate in our socioeconomically disadvantaged census tracts each for two consecutive weeks.
“Our case rate remains in the most restrictive Purple tier, so there is more work to be done. But this is very welcome news for our residents and business owners alike.”
El Dorado County now has a 24-hour hotline for reporting short term rental issues.
The hotline from Host Compliance is: (530) 206-7649.
Article from the Tahoe Daily Tribune.
A South Lake Tahoe resident experienced something in the backcountry that not many live through.
On February 12, the start of Presidents Day weekend, Kyle Johnston experienced one of nature’s paramount winter intensities, an avalanche that not only swept him roughly 200 yards from where he fell off a 100 foot cliff, but also buried him for five minutes.
The experience has left him with absolute appreciation and gratitude.
“I don’t feel as bad as doctors say I should,” Johnston said. “I am doing well with all things considered — It feels nice to be home and out of the hospital.”
Johnston grew up skiing in Michigan where he lived with his family. He eventually moved to South Lake Tahoe with his cousin, Josh Daiek in 2004.
Daiek was skiing with Johnston the day of the avalanche.
The two were in the backcountry near Blue Lakes. They kept heading south and ended up a bit south of “The Nipple” where the avalanche was triggered.
The two had done a handful of runs and while the snow was good, they noticed some indicators that could involve too many risks so they decided to change plans to a safer area.
Daiek dropped in first, and then Johnston. After a few turns, they were faced with a mandatory cliff section and both were planning to ski through when the hillside slab crumbled.
“The whole hillside gave away,” Johnston said.
Johnston navigated out of the slide, but it forced him to head toward cliffs and rocks.
In a split second decision to avoid the area, he went off a blind cliff with several rocks below him.
“I do recall the thought of ‘oh no, this is really big,’” he said. “Thankfully I remember everything until I hit the ground and lost consciousness.”
The snow from the avalanche continued over the cliff that Johnston had just went off.
The avalanche dragged Johnston about 200 yards from where he landed.
“It’s all kind of a blur,” he said. “The next thing I remember was my cousin digging me out.”
After the avalanche, the only thing sticking out of the snow was Johnson’s hand, and Daiek was able to see it among avalanche debris.
Johnston said he remembers feeling liquid in his lungs and hearing his cousin on the phone with emergency services.
“It was so surreal, I don’t even know how to put it into words,” he said. “In some aspects, it doesn’t even seem real.”
Within 15 minutes, the Care Flight helicopter arrived and landed.
“It was an intense feeling of relief,” he said. “I am really fortunate that the helicopter was able to land in that type of typography.”
Medics made their way through avalanche debris and got him into the helicopter where he was flown straight to the intensive care unit at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno.
Johnston spent 11 days in the hospital and had two surgeries. He suffered from a punctured right lung and bruising on both, a concussion, broken spinal segments C7, T1,T2, T3, and several ribs.
He also has a small brain bleed, which the neurosurgeon said wasn’t of huge concern. Fortunately Johnston was wearing a helmet. Johnston was released from the hospital on February 23.
Johnston’s girlfriend set up a GoFundMe page to help with the stacking bills.
However, Johnston didn’t want the link included and wanted instead to express his gratitude for the community.
“It could have ended my time on this earth, it seems like a distant dream. I am thankful I am alive and thankful for my cousin, family, careflight and everyone involved. Words can’t express my gratitude for my cousin saving my life, my girlfriend being by my side and my community,” he said. “It is pretty emotional and it brought me to tears to think about how many people have reached out to me in this town both those I know and those who I don’t know. I want to make sure this town knows how thankful I am for everything. It’s been moving to have the support of this town. I am looking forward to getting back out there.”
Steve Reyaud, forecaster at Sierra Avalanche Center, said that this specific avalanche was part of the Presidents Day weekend storm and wind slab that formed the recent storm that hit the area.
“It wasn’t a large storm but the snow did not bond well with the existing slab,” he said.
This specific avalanche cycle lasted for about four days and within those days, there were 40 different avalanches reported to SAC.
“It was an interesting avalanche event,” he said.
While forecasters at SAC usually investigate most of the reported avalanches, they were unable to investigate this one due to time and it’s remote location.
While there have been several deadly avalanches in Colorado and Utah this year, the entire western United States has had a similar snowpack this winter with early snow in November and a dry spell following, with the exception of Canada and Alaska.
“In general, we’ve had the same layering,” he said.
However, in places like Wyoming, those dangerous layers are still active whereas in the Sierra, those layers have consolidated.
Reynaud recommends avoidance or skiing at a lower angle terrain during those times and highly encourages anyone going into the backcountry to get avalanche specific education.
“Avalanches are very dynamic and snowpack is ever changing,” he said.
 Update on COVID-19 in El Dorado County for Friday, March 5, 2021.
-- 3 cases (9,204)
0 in Pollock Pines/Camino/Kyburz; 2 in EDH; (-1) in Diamond Springs/El Dorado; 0 in North County; (-2) in Greater Placerville; 4 in Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue; 0 in South County; 0 in Lake Tahoe region; (0) awaiting address confirmation
(total awaiting address confirmation is 101)
-- 3 age 0-17, 3 age 18-49, 0 age 50-64, (-3) age 65+
(0) date of birth unknown (total date of birth unknown is 12)
-- (658) additional negative test results
-- 19 assumed recoveries (8,825)
-- 4 hospitalizations/3 ICU
-- no additional deaths (100)
With respect to the tier assignment measures:
- Adjusted case rate: 7.9
- Positivity rate: 3.9%
- Health equity quartile positivity rate: 5.0%
A Collared Gray Wolf, named OR-93, has traveled farther south into California than any other documented collared wolf. OR-93 departed his pack southeast of Mt. Hood and made his long trek down into California and eventually ended up in Mono County. In 2017, a 2-year-old female gray wolf made her way down to the Tahoe area, making it the first time a gray wolf was seen around the area. Thanks to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, these wolves are being monitored using GPS collars.
 Photo Credit: Austin Smith of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
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