Local Health Officials to Present COVID-19 Update to City Council Monday

City officials were scheduled to present an update on the city’s efforts to curb the coronavirus on Monday.

Dr. Lori Morgan, president and CEO of Huntington Hospital, will attend the event along with the city’s health director Dr. Ying-Ying Goh. Both are expected to speak.

Numbers at the hospital continue to surge.

As of Sunday afternoon, the hospital is treating more COVID-19 patients than ever before. Currently there are 111 patients battling the virus in the hospital and 21 in the Intensive Care Unit.

On Sunday, 78 new cases of the virus in Pasadena were confirmed with no additional deaths. To date, the city has reported 4,807 cases and 139 fatalities. 

Vaccines were shipped out this past weekend from Pfizer with 1,950 doses scheduled to go directly to Huntington Hospital. The Centers for Disease Control will be allocating doses to CVS and Walgreens which will be responsible for sending teams into the city’s assisted living facilities. 

After the distribution of vaccines to health care workers, skilled nursing facilities and long-term care staff and residents is completed, priority will then move to “essential workers” and then to people at highest risk of severe illness from the virus, such as seniors or those with underlying health conditions.

The City Council’s meeting, still online due to COVID-19 restrictions, begins at 2 p.m. Members of the community may access the meeting through www.pasadenamedia.org and through www.cityofpasadena.net/commissions/agendas.