What to know about COVID-19 vaccines in Santa Clara County
January 5, 2021
Robert Bustretsky, left, receives the COVID-19 vaccine from pharmacist Khanh Pham at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose on Dec. 17. (Bay Area News Group/Randy Vazquez, Pool)
Hope for turning the tide of the coronavirus pandemic has finally arrived.
People around the world are rolling up their sleeves to receive the first doses of the just-approved COVID-19 vaccines. The medicines come at a dire moment, with the epidemic raging around the county, state and country, causing record numbers of deaths.
Here are answers to some of the most common questions about the vaccines.
vaccine ahead of schedule this weekend.
Stanford Hospital offered walk-in vaccine appointments over the weekend and some affiliates thought they may be eligible to receive excess doses.
There was not actually an excess supply of vaccines, but an unconfirmed number of non-clinical staff got their shots anyway.
Some Stanford Medicine affiliates who do not work in patient-facing roles were able to get a first shot of the
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this weekend due to miscommunication about walk-in appointments, the Stanford Daily reported Tuesday.
The vaccine was supposed to be reserved for frontline
healthcare workers through next week, with non-clinical affiliates scheduled to receive the vaccine after January 8.
Some non-clinical Stanford Medicine faculty and researchers mistakenly got the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of schedule this weekend.
Stanford Hospital offered walk-in vaccine appointments over the weekend and some affiliates thought they may be eligible to receive excess doses.
There was not actually an excess supply of vaccines, but an unconfirmed number of non-clinical staff got their shots anyway.
Some Stanford Medicine affiliates who do not work in patient-facing roles were able to get a first shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this weekend due to miscommunication about walk-in appointments, the Stanford Daily reported Tuesday.
The vaccine was supposed to be reserved for frontline healthcare workers through next week, with non-clinical affiliates scheduled to receive the vaccine after January 8.
Paul Biris
A new study has found that there is a link between the severity of Covid-19 and the levels of antibodies patients carry after recovering from the virus.
The research conducted by Stanford Medicine shows that Covid-19 antibodies preferentially target a different part of the virus in mild cases than they do in severe cases. But all antibodies significantly decrease within months.
The team of researchers studied 254 people who were asymptomatic, had mild, or severe Covid-19. They were identified at the Stanford Health Care Clinic. There’s more to this story Subscribe to News24 and get access to our
Lee is an infectious disease expert at Stanford Medicine and a member on the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. She says receiving the vaccines is only step one, contacting patients, giving the shot, and reporting it all can take several more days.
“There is a little bit of data lag, I believe, that is related to the time it takes not only to administer but the time it takes to report those doses back. So I anticipate the numbers are far higher than the two million,” Lee said.
Last Wednesday, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who received his first COVID-19 vaccine shot on Tuesday alongside Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that if the U.S. government doesn’t meet its vaccine goal by the end of this month he hopes Americans, “will understand this is a logistic challenge of enormous proportion.”