Investigation: Are Bay Area vaccine sites giving out extra shots?
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FEMA employees assist walk-in vaccination appointments at an entrance to the COVID-19 mass vaccination site opened to the public at the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum Complex in Oakland, Calif. on Feb. 16, 2021. The site is expected to deliver up to 6,000 shots of COVID-19 vaccine a day.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE
While demand for the COVID-19 vaccine is surging amid scarce supply, stories are flying around about pharmacies, hospitals and mass vaccination sites passing out excess doses to people who just happen to be at the right place at the right time. There is also a lot of talk about waiting lists that vaccination sites use when they need to dispense doses at risk of expiring.
San Francisco mass vaccination site opens; it s already booked
San Francisco opened its 1st mass vaccine site on Friday. It s already booked. Allie Rasmus reports
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco s first mass-vaccination site is now open. The first of 500 people with appointments at the site received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Friday and described a sense of happiness and relief. I am feeling wonderful, this is fabulous, said San Francisco resident Jim Stephens, who signed up for one of the first appointments at the site, at 8:30 a.m. There s real hope. We ve ended a period of darkness, and we re moving into a period of light.
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How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in San Francisco.
Directly across the street, I can see a collection of tarps and poles (along with one of my own garbage cans) that were used to construct a makeshift home on the sidewalk. Beside that edifice stands a wooden cross decorated with a string of white Christmas lights and a red ribbon a memorial to the woman who built that structure and died inside it earlier this week. We don’t know and probably never will what killed her: the pandemic raging across California? A heart attack? An overdose of heroin or fentanyl?
Emergency room physician Cleavon Gilman, seen in front of the Gowan Company building in historic downtown Yuma, Ariz.
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As a combat medic deployed with the Marines in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, Cleavon Gilman saw bodies torn apart by IEDs. He heard agonizing screams, saw burned flesh and penetrating trauma. He stood in pools of blood, tending to Marines with severed spinal cords, missing limbs, and intestines bulging through gaping wounds. He emptied the pockets of the dead, collecting baby pictures and ultrasound photos, removed dog tags, and stacked bodies, sometimes two and three at a time, into refrigerated trailers. He still has PTSD, though he returned from the war 16 years ago. Even so, that experience did not prepare him for the coronavirus.