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Healthy people under 50 who are not essential workers likely won’t get vaccinated until this summer. Counties are currently vaccinating health providers, farmworkers, teachers, law enforcement personnel and people over age 65.

Print Before the pandemic, 16-year-old Joshua Espinoza was able to visit his family every weekend. But for the last year, time with his mother, father and brother has been limited to quick sessions at his group home to reduce the chances of coronavirus infection. As of Monday, the 11th grader with severe autism is among an estimated 4.4 million statewide with high-risk medical conditions and disabilities who will join the state’s vaccine priority list, significantly increasing his odds of rec...

Gov. Gavin Newsom says his administration has been planning for a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign for months. Why have things gone so wrong -- for him and his fellow Californians?

Healthy people under 50 who are not essential workers likely won’t get vaccinated until this summer. Counties are currently vaccinating health providers, farmworkers, teachers, law enforcement personnel and people over age 65.

Despite Months to Prep, Why California Lags on COVID Vaccination No one ever said that distributing a vaccine to tens of millions of Californians spread out across 58 counties in the middle of a pandemic would be easy. But Gov. Gavin Newsom came pretty close last October. At a press conference on the 19th, the governor assured the public that California has “long been in the vaccination business.” That projection of confidence came just three days after the CEO of the pharmaceutical giant P...

Jeff Smith, executive officer for Santa Clara County, is one of those critics. “For the past year, the entire approach that the governor has taken to the pandemic has been disorganized and petulant,” said Smith, who disagrees that county governments are sitting on unused vaccine. “Whenever he feels like he’s getting bad press, he does something. And the things that he does are not wise things and they’re not driven by scientific decisions,” said Smith. A vaccine rollout that is unpr...

While California started vaccinating health care workers and other high-risk residents in December, there are still a lot of questions about who will get vaccinated when. Heres what we know so far, and what we dont.

COVID vaccine distribution in the Bay Area: Heres what you need to know FacebookTwitterEmail Respiratory care practitioner Raul Aguilar receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Monday.Jae C. Hong / Associated Press Editors note: This story is no longer being updated. Please go to this vaccine FAQ for the latest information. The U.S. coronavirus vaccine rollout has been much slower than anticipated, with only 4 million doses di...

Californias Community Vaccine Advisory Committee is preparing to outline who will receive COVID-19 vaccine doses in the next phase of distribution and how to make sure they are administered equitably.

Published: Sunday, 27 December 2020 13:17 There were 50,141 newly recorded confirmed cases of COVID-19 in California on Dec. 26, as reported by the California Department of Public Health on Dec. 27. Due to a service interruption in Los Angeles, the confirmed case numbers reported on Dec. 27 from Los Angeles County reflect cases reported over the previous two days. On Dec. 26, 336 patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were in Ventura County hospitals, and 20 people with suspected COVID-19 ...