03/01/2021
Many health professionals and others eager to assist the local response to the pandemic have volunteered directly with local health care organizations that include the West County Health Centers.
“Within the first two weeks, we had over 300 volunteers sign up,” said Dr. Rain Moore, chief medical officer of the nonprofit, Guerneville-based health agency.
“Our volunteers have been essential to the whole thing, every step,” said Moore, who oversaw a vaccination clinic Saturday at Guerneville School, and the day before was among the West County Health Centers staffers and volunteers who administered vaccines to 495 people at Analy High School in Sebastopol.
Volunteers with West County Health Centers are greeting and registering the people to be vaccinated, administering shots, monitoring those who were vaccinated for adverse reactions, even visiting homebound seniors to vaccinate them.
“One hundred percent,” said Moore. “We could not do it without them.”
Hundreds of medical, nonmedical volunteers have helped with Sonoma County’s COVID-19 response.
