As part of Sonoma County’s efforts to expand and streamline testing options for residents, the County is partnering with a private company, Curative, to operate the County’s pop-up testing sites beginning Monday, December 28, 2020.

The County of Sonoma received its first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this morning. Two boxes of the vaccine, containing a total of 1,950 doses, arrived at the County’s Public Health Lab on Chanate Road shortly before 9 a.m. today. Three other boxes were taken directly to local hospitals. In all, the County received 4,875 doses.

After careful review of 15 applications, the County of Sonoma Department of Health Services has approved one local school – Presentation School in Sonoma – to move forward with its waiver request to reopen for in-person instruction.

The County of Sonoma has awarded $2.37 million to local nonprofits for Sonoma County residents whose ability to pay rent has been impacted by COVID-19, as well as to low-income landlords who have lost income as a result of COVID-19.

The Sonoma County Department of Health Services’ Latinx Health Work Group has selected the nonprofit group On The Move to develop and implement a large-scale outreach and education campaign in response to the adverse and disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 within the local Latinx and indigenous communities.