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San Diego County residents 65 and older can now get vaccinated against COVID-19 — provided their health care provider has the doses.
But with vaccine demand far exceeding supply, that’s likely to be an issue.
As it is, the county has struggled to vaccinate the nursing home residents and health care workers who fall into the state’s highest-priority vaccination tier. There are 620,000 people in this group, and only around 80,000 have been inoculated, though county officials say this may be an underestimate.
On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that Californians 65 and older are now eligible for vaccination — one day after the federal government urged states to expand eligibility. Older adults are especially vulnerable to the coronavirus. About 15 percent of San Diego County residents age 80 and older who’ve gotten COVID-19 have died — more than one in seven.