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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>FYI.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Nancy Urquilla<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> State Council on Developmental Disabilities [<a href="mailto:scdd@scdd-ca.ccsend.com">mailto:scdd@scdd-ca.ccsend.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>State Council on Developmental Disabilities<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 12, 2021 2:49 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Success! People with Disabilities are a Vaccine Priority<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:.75pt'><span style='font-size:1.0pt'><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/msv5/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from http://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?ca=a3b5108d-f8b4-4af9-86bd-4a412235bb07&a=1121577816299&c=2d2593f0-8fe4-11ea-b548-d4ae529a8786&ch=2d7f21cc-8fe4-11ea-b548-d4ae529a8786" /><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#BFBFBF;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 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style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001HpQ7-zi_BMHUA6vLz9RROeI5tFApv85XFe8nkgHLTDGPN3JTx8GJnbpRnkDHMk6WDgzqa5oyKXzO2QuKiW0WyI5M6RtLrV6w0qy8gI8tDxDuWYaB46a8i28YfU22XjQtR_wy4KCvw5I=&c=3lyC62UEDPzWmslZPsN6oBLleVRvswJ1Xr5RQceYo5dOca6tcA_UWw==&ch=nbslmBDr6LIwmTAmwRF09x3qtCGLPyS9ze-TC1o6XflM7BmCUveNEQ=="><span style='color:blue;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=225 height=146 style='width:2.3437in;height:1.5208in' id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/be05f332501/dfce8e16-a402-4301-aa67-6ad943d52d04.jpg" alt="California State Council on Developmental Disabilities Logo"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='background:white;padding:0in 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;background:#002060;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'>Success! People with Disabilities are a Vaccine Priority</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Your voice has been heard! Thank you to all the fierce self-advocates, family advocates, and community members who urged making people with developmental and other disabilities a vaccine priority. Thanks to your effort, the California Department of Public Health announced this today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Beginning March 15, healthcare providers may use their clinical judgement to vaccinate individuals age 16-64 who are deemed to be at the very highest risk for morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 as a direct result of one or more of the following severe health conditions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Cancer, </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>current with debilitated or immunocompromised state <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Chronic kidney disease, </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>stage 4 or above <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Chronic pulmonary disease, </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>oxygen dependent <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Down syndrome</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>lmmunocompromised state 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style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Heart conditions, </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies (excludes hypertension) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Severe obesity </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>(Body Mass Index 2 is greater or equal to 40 kg/m2) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:30.0pt;text-indent:-12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Type <i>2 </i>diabetes mellitus </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>with hemoglobin Al c level greater than 7.5% <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>OR</span></i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></i><span 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