Expansion falls short of state guidelines
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CVS pharmacists give the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to Channing House residents at the retirement community on Dec. 28, 2020. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
All Santa Clara County residents age 75 and older are eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine effective immediately, vastly expanding the number of people eligible for immunization against the virus, county officials announced in a press conference Wednesday.
County Counsel James Williams said the county now has enough doses to extend eligibility beyond the previously narrow restrictions, which only permitted front-line health care workers and residents and staff of long-term care facilities to receive the vaccine. To date, an estimated 52,000 doses have already been administered, 31,000 of which were done by the county health system.