Bay Briefing: This is a big day
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Dr. Brian Thompson waits to receive the vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.Jae C. Hong/Associated Press
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Tuesday, Dec. 15, and a classic film about San Francisco is getting a big honor. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
‘The hope of this vaccine will not crush this curve’
Five Los Angeles health care workers were the first people in California to be immunized with the newly approved vaccine developed by Pfizer and the German company BioNTech on Monday.
San Francisco was one of four counties to receive the earliest shipments on Monday, with 2,000 doses arriving at San Francisco General Hospital. Immunizations there were expected to begin on Tuesday. Gov. Gavin Newsom said that 24 more locations would get shipments Tuesday and another five on Wednesday.
History made Monday as California frontline workers receive COVID-19 vaccine
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Of the 2.9 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine making their way across the country more than 325,000 are headed to California.
The first shots are already being given in some parts of the state. After nearly 10 months, there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel.
Health care workers in California have now started receiving the vaccine, which is administered in two doses, three weeks apart.
Counties across the Valley are now anxiously waiting for their doses to arrive in the coming days.
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Another set of scientists, this one more than five-dozen deep, is sounding the alarm over Snake River salmon and steelhead, saying if the imperiled fish are to be saved the four lower Snake River dams must go.
On Monday, 68 fisheries researchers from the Pacific Northwest released a letter penned to the regionâs congressional delegation, governors and fisheries policymakers methodically making the case for breaching the dams.
âThis scientific recommendation wasnât taken lightly. This is relying on a review of a large preponderance of information that a bunch of us analyzed over and over again over the years,â said Howard Schaller, a retired fisheries research biologist who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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