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Covid-19 vaccine eligibility in Monterey county has expanded this week to those all county residents 65 years-old and older who have not already been vaccinated....regardless of the zip code in which they live. Other residents who are eligible are those that work in food and agriculture, childcare and education, and emergency services.
A vaccination clinic for farmworkers is slated to be held this Saturday. People with the Grower-Shipper Association Of Central California, and Clinica De Salud Del Valle De Salinas, hope to inoculate 3-thousand farm workers this time. These vaccinations are available to farm workers of any age who live and work in Monterey county..... and it will be held at the Salinas Rodeo Grounds. Walk-ins will not be accepted.
Officials are hoping to be able to vaccinate about 5 thousand people each week after this weekend.
Santa Cruz County says it now meets the COVID-19 metrics for the “red tier” of the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. That means the county could move up into the less-restrictive tier next week.
Officials say that if the county maintains or improves its metrics on March 9, it will move to the red tier next Wednesday, March 10.
The Santa Cruz Police Department is asking for the public's help to identify people who recently attended a protest without masks. Police said there was a planned protest on Sunday and released a video of the event.
Police said they chose not to confront the protesters for mask order violations to avoid creating a potentially dangerous situation but are now working with businesses, identifying participants, and "seeking prosecution."
Police said that about 20 people at the protest did not wear masks. Police say it was illegal to gather without masks or physical distancing. Officers identified many of the people in the protest and wrote case reports. If enough evidence is shown, those people could be summoned to court.
The death of a convicted killer known as the "I-5 Strangler" is being investigated as a homicide,
Investigators said 81-year old Roger Kibbe was found unresponsive in his cell at Mule Creek State Prison around 12:40 a.m. Sunday. A corrections officer was doing an inmate count when the officer noticed Kibbe's cellmate, 40-year-old Jason Budrow, standing near Kibbe, who was lying on the floor.
Medical staff took Kibbe to the prison’s health care facility, where resuscitation measures were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead.
Kibbe was sentenced to state prison in 2009 from San Joaquin County to serve life without the possibility of parole for two counts of first-degree murder.