California public health officials announced expanded eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine as the state reported nearly 10,000 new cases and 433 new deaths Saturday, according to public health officials.
In the first weeks of the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history, Dr. Julie Vaishampayan has had a battlefront view of a daunting logistical operation. Her charge is to see that potentially lifesaving COVID-19 shots make it into the arms of 550,000 residents. And like her dozens of counterparts across the state, she is improvising as she goes.
Jan. 14 With coronavirus infections and hospitalizations starting to show some early signs of a plateau in California, and a massive change to the COVID-19 vaccination timeline, health leaders are hopeful the winter surge will be the last major one of the pandemic. But that surge is ongoing, and the plateau is a high one. The California Department of Public Health has reported an average of .