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DPH details North Bay wildfire response and hepatitis A prevention efforts
Summary
DPH briefed the commission on mutual-aid deployments to Sonoma and Napa, hospital and nursing-home evacuations that brought over 100 nursing-home patients to San Francisco, and an ongoing hepatitis A vaccination campaign that has administered more than 4,000 doses so far.
Director Garcia and the department’s public health emergency team updated the commission on the North Bay wildfires and the department’s parallel hepatitis A prevention activation.
Dr. Naveena Bridal (public health emergency preparedness and response) said the fires prompted evacuations at multiple hospitals, including Sutter, Santa Rosa and Kaiser facilities, and that both hospital and nursing-home evacuations were a major regional effort. “We had over a 100 patients from nursing homes come to San Francisco as part of the evacuation efforts,” she said, describing deployments of…
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