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New poll finds troubling pockets of vaccine hesitancy By KTVU staff article Maximo Michua, 74, holds his sleeve as Kathryne Acuna (R), Director of Ambulatory Clinical Services at Kaiser Permanente, administers his Covid-19 vaccine on the opening day of a large-scale Covid-19 vaccination site at a parking structure at Cal Pol Expand SAN FRANCISCO - A new poll by Bay Area Council conducted earlier this month finds hesitancy in some communities when it comes to getting the COVID vaccine.  The poll was conducted between March 10-16. Of the 57% who said they haven’t been vaccinated, 21% said ...

That's up 14.7% from the previous week's tally of 44,130 COVID-19 doses administered. As of March 9, 13.18% of people living in Stearns County are fully vaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers someone fully vaccinated two weeks after they've been given a single-dose shot (Johnson & Johnson) or a second shot (either Pfizer or Moderna). Gov. Tim Walz announced Tuesday, March 9 that Minnesota is expanding eligibility for the coronavirus vaccine after reaching its goal of inoculating at least 70% of people 65 and older. The state will expand eligibility to the next tw...

Moscone Center opens - again - for high-volume vaccinations Moscone Center opens again on Thursday for vaccinations. Elissa Harrington reports SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Moscone Center is set to begin administering COVID-19 vaccines again on Thursday after putting the program on pause because of lack of supply. This is a big deal in the city’s efforts to vaccinate because the Moscone Center is a high-volume site, capable of administering 7,000 to 10,000 doses a day.  The center originally opened as a vaccine clinic on Feb. 5.  It was forced to temporarily shut down twice because of...

SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly a year into a life-altering pandemic, many Americans are fed up with wearing masks, desperate for a return to normalcy and numb to the relentless stream of grim numbers, such as the 500,000 COVID-19 deaths the USA surpassed Monday. Health care workers don’t want to hear any of that. They have been working endless hours amid constant death and suffering, forsaking time off and exposing themselves to the disease, leaving them exhausted and with no real indication of when the pandemic will relent. “There’s definitely some tangible fatigue on the health care worker...

Laura Ungar and Samantha Young Kaiser Health News California mom Megan Bacigalupi has had enough. She wants her kindergartner and second-grader back in their Oakland classrooms. But the coronavirus is spreading too quickly to open schools in Alameda County, based on current state standards. And the local teachers union hasn’t agreed to go back – even after teachers have been vaccinated. So she expects her kids will be logging on to school from home for a while. “The impediments to opening are just too great,” said Bacigalupi, who is lobbying California lawmakers to establish firm, st...