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Will you get the vaccine when given the opportunity? (Shutterstock)
CALIFORNIA Now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially cleared the first vaccine for the prevention of the coronavirus disease COVID-19, many are anxiously awaiting the rollout of the Pfizer product. Though California will start with some 327,000 doses being shipped to the state in the first wave millions will eventually have access to it.
States and municipalities across the nation have spent the past few weeks lining up their logistical ducks to get doses of the vaccine into the arms of Californians who need and want them the most.
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Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
CALIFORNIA Another weekend of record coronavirus numbers in California came with a small glimmer of hope. A workgroup of medical officials from the western states confirmed the safety of the Pfizer vaccine Sunday morning, giving the green light for California s long-awaited vaccine rollout.
The Western States Scientific Review Workgroup completed a review of the Pfizer vaccine, deeming it safe and efficacious.
But its arrival won t do much to slow a worsening surge in hospitalizations and plummeting intensive care unit capacity across the state.