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State Activates MyTurn Vaccine Clearinghouse Website Friday, January 22, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
National Guard members and medical personnel administer COVID vaccines to health care workers at a drive-through distribution site at Cal Expo in Sacramento on Jan. 21, 2021.
Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
Facing criticism for its chaotic COVID-19 vaccine rollout, California has quietly launched a long-promised statewide website to help residents learn when they are eligible to receive the vaccine and schedule appointments.
Called MyTurn (myturn.ca.gov), the online registry has not yet been widely promoted and still is a work in progress. Gov. Gavin Newsom was expected to formally unveil the registry this week.
Hospitals Seek Relaxed Rules For Nursing, Patient Discharge Monday, January 11, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Registered nurse Merri Lynn Anderson tends to a patient in a COVID-19 unit at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Jan. 7, 2021.
Photo by Jae C. Hong, AP Photo
Facing the largest “surge on top of a surge” of patients since the start of the pandemic, California hospitals today begged state officials for more relief from the “red tape” they say is hampering patient care.
“We find we are standing on a beach and watching a tsunami approach,” said Carmela Coyle, president and CEO of the California Hospital Association, an industry group. “Yet we are still having to deal with regulations that … that in times of crisis need to be set aside. We need additional flexibility so (hospitals) can focus on patient care and not on paperwork.”
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Getting the coronavirus vaccines into the arms of as many Californians as possible has become a race against time as COVID-19 cases continue to spiral upward and a more infectious variant of the virus takes root.
Many questions remain unanswered about how the next and much larger wave of Californians will be vaccinated, even as doctors and other health providers in the first priority group are complaining to state officials that they still can t get access to the vaccines.
At a vaccine community advisory committee meeting on Wednesday, state epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan announced an ambitious immunization goal, acknowledging widespread criticism that the state has moved too slowly to vaccinate its first priority group of frontline health care workers and nursing home residents.