A pharmacist administering a COVID-19 vaccine in Santa Rosa, Calif., Wednesday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom goals to get 1 million doses of the vaccines administered earlier than the top of the week.
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A pharmacist administering a COVID-19 vaccine in Santa Rosa, Calif., Wednesday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom goals to get 1 million doses of the vaccines administered earlier than the top of the week.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced Wednesday that residents 65 and older are eligible to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine. He goals to manage a further 1 million doses by the top of the week, a California Dept. of Public Well being assertion mentioned.
As of Wednesday, California had administered about 890,000 of their 3.43 million doses of the vaccine, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention reported. The state has arrange mass-immunization websites in sports activities stadiums and fairgrounds to expedite distribution. Moreover, 36,000 dentists had been added to the pool of personnel allowed to manage the vaccines, the information launch mentioned.
We’re considerably growing efforts to get vaccines out.
A technique is thru mass distribution websites for precedence teams, one other is growing eligible teams – we’re asserting that Californians 65+ are the subsequent group eligible to obtain #COVID19 vaccines. #EndThePandemic pic.twitter.com/LU7rFPzvFd
— Workplace of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) January 13, 2021
“We’re considerably growing our efforts to get these vaccines administered, get them out of freezers and get them into folks’s arms,” Newsom mentioned in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday. “One of the vital vital issues we are able to do is enhance the variety of folks eligible to … obtain the vaccine and that is what we’re doing at this time, asserting all people 65 and over — about 6.6 million Californians — we at the moment are pulling into the tier to make out there vaccines.”
About 90% of Californians are nonetheless below Newsom’s regional stay-at-home order, which went into impact early final December. The state recorded just below 300,000 new COVID-19 circumstances and three,510 deaths within the final week. Nevertheless, these numbers appear to have leveled out in latest days.
Well being care staff and long-term care residents are nonetheless the best precedence for receiving the vaccine, the assertion mentioned, however the demand for the vaccine is outweighing the availability.
“With our hospitals crowded and ICUs full, we have to deal with vaccinating Californians who’re at highest threat of changing into hospitalized to alleviate stress on our well being care services,” mentioned Dr. Tomás Aragón, Director of the California Division of Public Well being and State Public Well being Officer. “Prioritizing people age 65 and older will scale back hospitalizations and save lives.”
Florida and Georgia are additionally on the quick checklist of states which have lowered the age to 65. The CDC initially advisable 75 and up.
