BOH Final Minutes of March 24, 2021 with edit

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MINUTES - Draft ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH March 24, 2021 • At the Governor's Briefing on yesterday, he announced that we've plateaued. • Small spikes in cases causes include — o Some people that are fully vaccinated are not wearing their masks. o Students are returning from Spring break. • CDC announced new guidance around fully vaccinated people on March 8m o Fully vaccinated people can visit other fully vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or social distancing. o Fully vaccinated people can visit with unvaccinated people from a single household that are at low risk for severe COVID disease indoors without wearing a mask or social distancing and can refrain from quarantine and testing following an exposure if they remain asymptomatic. o You are considered fully vaccinated 2 weeks after your 2nd dose or after the Johnson & Johnson vaccination. • Ms. Stewart reiterated to still wear your masks, social distancing and wash your hands • In OC, 30.6% (45,383 people) of the population have received their 1st dose; while, 20.8% (30,810 people) have received their 2nd dose/fully vaccinated. • Our Health & Human Services Consulting group has helped our efforts in being intentional and removing barriers to help those historically underserved populations get vaccinated by working with community partners and churches. The OC OPT provides transportation. There is also a mobile clinic unit that goes out and vaccinates those populations that are homebound and/or unsheltered. Some data around equity and those historically underserved populations that were vaccinated: o Source of data — NC DHHS. They're data includes all of the providers in OC. ■ 0.3% American Indian, 6.7% Asian, 8.7 Black/African-American, 77% White, 6.1% Hispanic, 5.6% Other o Source of data —OCHD. This data only includes the clinics/PODs the OCHD facilitated and the vaccines administered by the OCHD. ■ 0.42% American Indian (0.7% of OC pop.), 4.28% Asian (8.5% of OC pop.), 18.56% (12.4% of OC pop.), 68.84% White (78% of OC pop.), 10.2% Hispanic (9% of OC pop.), 6.93% (9% of OC pop.) • County Alert System o As of March 18th, there is only 1 red tier county in the state. There are 82 counties in yellow (including Orange County) and 17 in the orange tier. • Friday at 5pm, the Governor's Executive Order 204 takes effect. o Mask mandate remains the same for indoor and in public settings. o Some businesses capacities will increase. ■ Lower risks (e.g. retail shopping, childcare camps, outdoor playgrounds, museums) will go to full capacity. ■ Medium risks (e.g. gyms, pools, amusement parks, wineries) will increase to full capacity outside while maintain social distancing rules. Their indoor capacity will increase to 75%. ■ Higher risks (e.g. conference spaces, bars, gaming, movie theaters, sports arenas)will increase to 50%. o Mass gathering limits also increase. ■ 25 to 50 people indoor ■ 50 to 100 people outdoors. o Restrictions on late night sale of alcohol will be lifted. C. Media Items S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda &Abstracts\2021 Agenda &Abstracts/ March Page 5