Sacramento senior retirement community fighting to get on-site COVID-19 vaccination clinic Share Updated: 1:40 AM PST Feb 20, 2021 Share Updated: 1:40 AM PST Feb 20, 2021
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Show Transcript KCRA 3 STEPHANIE LIN REACHED OUT TO THE STATE, COUNTY, AND CITY FOR ANSWERS. STEPHANIE: 95-YEAR-OLD RITA TURNOVSKY, REFLECTING ON HAPPIER TIMES SPENT WITH FELLOW RESIDENTS AT CAREFREE SENIOR LIVING IN NORTH NATOMA RITA: I USED TO GO BINGO EVERY SUNDAY. I’D GO TO THE STORE, THE BANK. STEPHANIE: FREEDOMS, TAKEN AWAY BY COVID-19. RITA, JUST ONE OF OVER 600 SENIORS LIVING HERE, AND STRUGGLING. RITA: VERY, VERY LONELY. AND JUST KINDA WHY DO I EVEN G UP IN THE MORNING? THERE’S NOTHING TO DO. STEPHANIE: AS FOR THE LAST TIME SHE LEFT THE FACILITY. RITA: I DON’T EVEN REMEMBE AILEEN: THAT MAKES ME VERY SAD. STEPHANIE: COMMUNITY MANAGER AILEEN ENRIQUEZ SAYS IT’S NOT JUST THE RESTRICTIONS, THEY KNOW COVID CAN BE ESPECIALLY DEADLY FOR THEIR RESIDENTS. AI
COVID vaccine update: Weather delays Sutter Health doses. California nears 7 million shots
Sacramento Bee 2/19/2021 Michael McGough, The Sacramento Bee
Feb. 18 More than nine weeks into the mass vaccination campaign to combat the coronavirus pandemic, California has seen gradual but at times unsteady improvement in its rollout. And now the weather could be hampering the effort.
The California Department of Public Health on its vaccine tracker reported Thursday providers have administered 6,699,137 of the 8.7 million doses distributed to hospital systems and health offices, a daily increase of 263,953 doses. From Tuesday to Wednesday, the state reported administering about 174,000 doses.
Nearly 264,000 doses represents the largest single-day increase reported yet by CDPH.
California s COVID vaccine shipments are being delayed by winter storms pounding U.S.
Sacramento Bee 2/19/2021 Michael McGough and Tony Bizjak, The Sacramento Bee
Feb. 18 The extreme winter weather blanketing most of the United States is delaying shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine to California, but the full extent and expected duration of those delays are not yet entirely clear.
The state was set to receive around 1.1 million doses this week, and next week s 1.25 million shown in allocation data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would mark the biggest allotment to date.
But the arctic blast cold snap that continues to pummel the vast majority of the U.S. with a mix of snow, freezing rain and subfreezing temperatures is impacting multiple major distribution hubs, casting uncertainty on coronavirus vaccine supply.