On Thursday, 264,000 doses were administered the highest single-day number yet, Newsom said. The only constraint is manufactured supply, Newsom said.
Vaccines have been a sticking point for Los Angeles Unified School District and the labor union, United Teachers Los Angeles, which made it part of its effort to safely reopen schools.
WATCH | Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses vaccine doses for teachers
Newsom said California would start setting aside 10% of first COVID vaccine doeses aside for teachers and support staff to help move toward reopening schools.
In a statement, the California Teachers Associated said the governor s announcement is an important step to ensuring teacher and school staff have access to the vaccine before opening school and work sites for in-person instruction.
What is your vaccination capacity right now?
Santa Clara County: The county receives 6,000 doses daily Monday through Friday and 1,000 doses on weekends. The biggest challenge is that the County has the capacity to administer more vaccines than it is currently receiving, a spokesperson told ABC7 News.
San Francisco County: The city s new mass vaccination site at the Moscone Center will be able to dole out 10,000 shots per day. Of course that comes with a big caveat: It all depends on how many doses the site receives.
Contra Costa County: Right now we are giving 20,000 shots a week, said Dr. Chris Farnitano, Contra Costa County Health Officer. If we had more vaccines, we have the capacity to be giving 40,000 a week. We have pharmacies and private physicians standing by to ramp up our capacity even more.
That s up from 31% reported a week ago. The facts are the facts, said Mike Wasserman, who sits on the state s vaccine advisory committee. There s a large number of vaccines that have yet to be put in the arms of nursing home staff and residents.
ABC7 s analysis found more than 1.9 million doses are waiting in freezers across the state - one of the worst distribution backlogs seen across the country.
CA has now administered more vaccines than any other state getting 40% of our doses out and in the arms of our healthcare workers and most vulnerable.
Progress but we still need to do more. We continue to ramp up our efforts with the goals of speed, equity, and safety. Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) January 18, 2021
Websites down, phone lines at capacity and many elders stuck with little information about how to proceed in getting their COVID-19 vaccine - That s the frustrating reality thousands are dealing with.
Carole says her 88-year-old mother, who s in assisted living in Sonoma County, is also still waiting for her vaccine. I really want my parents to get vaccinated. I don t want them to die from COVID, she said. We have almost no vaccines left at the end of each week. The more we get, the more we ll give, said Marin County Health Officer, Dr. Matt Willis.
Willis says Marin County only gets 5,000 doses of vaccine a week, which means the county doesn t have enough supply to start vaccinating age-based patients until the middle of next week.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KGO) Santa Clara County health officials on Wednesday announced residents 75 and older can now sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine in the county. The county also responded to concerns about a vaccine sign up link inadvertently shared with people who were turned away from a vaccination site.
Viewers wrote in and asked ABC7 News whether a link to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations at Berger Auditorium in San Jose was legitimate.
The California Department of Public Health says it is legit, but it s not for the general public.
On Wednesday, Santa Clara County Public Health officials explained people have been copying the link and forwarding it via text to people both in and outside the county.