Monday, Feb. 22. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond.
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Last spring, Gov. Gavin Newsom told Californians we couldn’t return to the 2019 version of normal
“until we have herd immunity.” At the time, we were just beginning to settle into our first stay-at-home order, making face masks out of T-shirts and still getting used to eyeballing six feet of distance.
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A Russian medical worker administers a shot of Russia s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to Galina Shilova in a local rural medical post in the village of Ikhala in Russia s Karelia region, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Nurse manager Sue McGrady receives the Pfizer vaccine at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Vaccination Hub in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (Toby Zerna/Pool Photo via AP)
People wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus arrive at a train station in Bengaluru, India, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
A Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccines shipment is offloaded from an Emirates Airlines Boing 777 that arrived from Brussels at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, early Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Australia: Australia started its COVID-19 vaccination program on Monday. Other countries in the Asia-Pacific region that have dealt relatively well with the pandemic either only recently started vaccinating or are about to, including Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Singapore.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Sunday in a show of confidence in the product. Australia is prioritizing building public confidence in COVID-19 vaccines ahead of speed of delivery.
Catherine Bennett, an epidemiologist at Australia’s Deakin University, said countries that do not face a virus crisis benefit from taking their time and learning from countries that have taken emergency inoculation measures such as the United States.
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