Los Angeles limits new vaccinations amid tight supplies
Santa Clara County and the
The Pentagon, meanwhile, announced troops will start arriving in a little over a week to run a new site at
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āWeāre just struggling with the supply, the limited supply, and feeling an obligation to make sure that people who have had a first dose are able to get their second dose,ā Dr.
The countyās five so-called mega-pods are among more than 360 vaccination sites countywide, including ones run by the city of
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Napa County Supervisor
āWeāre getting a lot of the questions from community members asking, āis my second dose in jeopardy?ā And right now, we donāt have an answer," Pedroza said. "Thereās a lot of frustration, thereās a lot of emotion because thereās been a lot of mixed messages.ā
āNobody likes to hear they halted first doses, but I think itās infuriating to skip the second doses,ā he said. āIf we donāt get significantly more doses of vaccine then weāre in bigger trouble than bickering over who gets the second dose.ā
Some 4.2 million shots have been administered in
They hope to soon be better able to track the inoculations as the state's MyTurn online reservation site becomes widely used and as the state turns to insurance giant
The state's worst coronavirus surge continues to abate as new virus cases fall sharply. The daily average now is about 14,500 cases, down almost 50% from two weeks ago.
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Deaths also are starting to fall but remain exceptionally high. Another 558 were announced Friday and in the last week almost 3,500 have died.
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Santa Clara County, which has about 2 million residents and is the most populous in
It's the latest of what has become a long list of mass vaccination centers that include
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With so many vaccination locations coming online so quickly,
āThese are really fluid numbers," Ng said in an email.
He offered the hope that one day California will be awash in so many doses that administering them ā instead of acquiring them ā will be the problem.
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