Governor Gavin Newsom announced the measure Wednesday, dramatically increasing the number of people who are eligible to get vaccinated
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On Tuesday the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommended to immediately include people from 65 years or more, and even those minors with chronic health conditions on the priority vaccination list, so that the state of California assured the same Tuesday that it would seek to adapt to the measure.
And the decision did not take long, since this Wednesday the governor Gavin Newsom confirmed that everyone over the age of 65 years on the state’s priority immunization list, which has about 2.5 million doses between the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, although it had only been administered almost 800, 000 at the beginning of the week.
CA is significantly increasing our efforts to get vaccines out.
This week, we launched mass vaccination sites across the state.
Today, we’re announcing that Californians 039 and older are eligible to receive the vaccine. # EndThePandemic pic.twitter.com/PtuJKx5VcH
– Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) January 01, 2021
“ California is significantly increasing efforts to distribute vaccines . This week we announced mass vaccination sites, today we announce that all Californians of 65 years or more are eligible to receive it ”, said the governor in a message published in Twitter on Wednesday.
However, Orange County, in the south of the state, did not wait for state confirmation and said on Tuesday that it would follow the CDC’s recommendation without waiting for the approval of the Newsom administration, which has received criticism. due to the slowness of the vaccine administration process.
Distributing #COVID 19 vaccines as quickly & equitably as possible is our top priority. Individuals 80 + are now the next group eligible to start receiving vaccines.
We will continue to do everything we can to bring more vaccine into CA. #EndThePandemic
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– Office of the Governor of California (@ CAgovernor) January 13, 1291508726
California continues in in the middle of the worst wave of cases, which has caused hundreds of thousands of cases and thousands of deaths in recent months, reaching a total of 2,781,039 virus cases and 31, 102 deaths from March 2021.
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