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New poll finds troubling pockets of vaccine hesitancy By KTVU staff article Maximo Michua, 74, holds his sleeve as Kathryne Acuna (R), Director of Ambulatory Clinical Services at Kaiser Permanente, administers his Covid-19 vaccine on the opening day of a large-scale Covid-19 vaccination site at a parking structure at Cal Pol Expand SAN FRANCISCO - A new poll by Bay Area Council conducted earlier this month finds hesitancy in some communities when it comes to getting the COVID vaccine.  The p...

Thats up 14.7% from the previous weeks tally of 44,130 COVID-19 doses administered. As of March 9, 13.18% of people living in Stearns County are fully vaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers someone fully vaccinated two weeks after theyve been given a single-dose shot (Johnson & Johnson) or a second shot (either Pfizer or Moderna). Gov. Tim Walz announced Tuesday, March 9 that Minnesota is expanding eligibility for the coronavirus vaccine after reaching its goal of ...

Moscone Center opens - again - for high-volume vaccinations Moscone Center opens again on Thursday for vaccinations. Elissa Harrington reports SAN FRANCISCO - San Franciscos Moscone Center is set to begin administering COVID-19 vaccines again on Thursday after putting the program on pause because of lack of supply. This is a big deal in the city’s efforts to vaccinate because the Moscone Center is a high-volume site, capable of administering 7,000 to 10,000 doses a day.  The center origina...

SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly a year into a life-altering pandemic, many Americans are fed up with wearing masks, desperate for a return to normalcy and numb to the relentless stream of grim numbers, such as the 500,000 COVID-19 deaths the USA surpassed Monday. Health care workers don’t want to hear any of that. They have been working endless hours amid constant death and suffering, forsaking time off and exposing themselves to the disease, leaving them exhausted and with no real indication of wh...

Laura Ungar and Samantha Young Kaiser Health News California mom Megan Bacigalupi has had enough. She wants her kindergartner and second-grader back in their Oakland classrooms. But the coronavirus is spreading too quickly to open schools in Alameda County, based on current state standards. And the local teachers union hasn’t agreed to go back – even after teachers have been vaccinated. So she expects her kids will be logging on to school from home for a while. “The impediments to openin...

L.A. County faces severe limits in 1st dose of COVID-19 vaccines amid shortages Luke Money, Rong-Gong Lin II, Colleen Shalby © Provided by The LA Times Katharyne Acuna administers the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Maximo Michua at a new vaccine center at Cal Poly Pomona on Friday. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) The chance to get the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine will be at a premium in Los Angeles County next week as a continuing supply crunch and...

Hawaiis governor is asking residents to limit Super Bowl parties. President Bidens relief bill cleared a key procedural step. Latest COVID-19 news.