RESOLUTION NO. _____________

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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RESOLUTION DECLARING THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF A LOCAL EMERGENCY IN SAN MATEO COUNTY RESULTING FROM INFLUENZA VACCINE SHORTAGE AND CONTINUED RATIFICATION OF THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LOCAL EMERGENCY FOR NOVEMBER 9 THROUGH NOVEMBER 23, 2004

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RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that

 

WHEREAS, nearly half of the expected U.S. influenza vaccine supply will not be available for the current influenza season; and

 

WHEREAS, the San Mateo County Health Services Agency obtains most of its influenza vaccine from the California Department of Health Services (DHS); and

 

WHEREAS, California has not purchased adult vaccine since it has ordered its vaccine from Chiron Corporation whose vaccine will not be available this year; and

 

WHEREAS, there exists a critical local public health crisis in that there is extreme peril to the health and safety of vulnerable populations including the medically fragile, the elderly and young children caused by the influenza vaccine shortage; and

 

WHEREAS, in San Mateo County persons at highest risk for complications of influenza include nearly 70,000 adults over 65 years of age, more than 16,000 children ages 6-23 months, more than 8,000 pregnant women, and the caregivers of 5,000 infants under 6 months who are too young to receive influenza vaccine; and

 

WHEREAS, in the U.S., more than 36,000 people die annually of complications related to influenza, and there are on average 180 pneumonia related deaths annually in San Mateo County; and

 

WHEREAS, the conditions of peril warrant and necessitate the proclamation of a local emergency as defined in San Mateo County Ordinance Code Section 2.172.020(d); and by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, and

 

WHEREAS, the County Health Officer has determined that a local emergency exists due to the extreme peril to the safety of persons caused by the significant risk of influenza; and

 

WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code section 101040 provides that the County Health Officer may take any preventive measure that may be necessary to protect and preserve the public health from any public health hazard during any "local emergency," as defined by Section 8558 of the Government Code, within his or her jurisdiction; and

 

WHEREAS, Section 8558 (c) of the Government Code defines local emergency as the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a county . . . caused by such conditions as epidemic . . . ; and

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 101040 "preventive measure" means abatement, correction, removal or any other protective step that may be taken against any public health hazard that is caused by a disaster and affects the public health; and

 

WHEREAS, for the reasons set forth above, the County Manager as the Director of Emergency Services for the County of San Mateo also Board of Supervisors have proclaimed the existence or threatened existence of a "local emergency" pursuant to San Mateo County Ordinance Code Section 2.172.060 (a)(1), and

 

WHEREAS, on October 14, 2004, this Board of Supervisors found that the influenza vaccine shortage and warranted and necessitated the declaration of a local emergency under section 8558 (c) of the Government Code and San Mateo County Ordinance Code Section 2.172.060;

 

WHEREAS, On October 26 this Board of Supervisors found that the influenza vaccine shortage and warranted and necessitated the declaration of a local emergency under section 8558 (c) of the Government Code and San Mateo County Ordinance Code Section 2.172.060;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, LET IT BE RESOLVED, that the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors continues to find that a local emergency exists due to the influenza vaccine shortage in the County of San Mateo and continues to so declare and continues ratification the proclamation of the local emergency by Director of Emergency Services from November 9 through November 23, 2004.

 

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