On Thursday Santa Clara County surpassed 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, nearly one year to the day health officials discovered the first known infection in a resident — a traveler just returned from Wuhan, China.
“Every one of those people, it's not a number,” Marty Fenstersheib, the county’s vaccine and testing officer, said at a Friday press briefing. "It could be your parent, your brother, your sister, your mother, your father.”
He added: “We should all do all that we can to keep from seeing additional cases and deaths in our community.”
The county has also seen 1,372 COVID-related deaths.
Fenstersheib acknowledged the county is not on track to reach its goal of vaccinating all residents who are eligible by the end of summer.
“That's still a goal,” he said. “We're confident and hopeful that we'll get enough vaccine, but we’ll basically need twice the amount of vaccine that we have. If we don't get the vaccine, it's going to take us longer and people are going to have to wait longer.”
A quarter of Santa Clara County residents age 75 and older have received at least one vaccine dose, according to the county.