How a grassroots Bay Area vaccine clinic managed to get people vaccinated despite the faltering rollout
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Dr. Joseph Aita administers a COVID-19 vaccination to Carlos Tiburcio, a worker with Renteria Vineyards.Brittany Hosea-Small/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Patients wait to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations at the St. Helena Foundation community clinic at Napa Valley College.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Marianne Scerri (center), a volunteer nurse practitioner who came out of retirement to help distribute vaccinations, talks with Maria Auxilio Irucuta, a worker with Renteria Vineyards, before giving her a COVID-19 vaccination at the St. Helena Foundation clinic.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Bay Area ramps up mass vaccination sites
Bay Area ramps up mass vaccination sites
Clinics around the Bay Area are matching whatever COVID-19 vaccine they receive with those who need it the most. KTVU s Debora Villalon checked out vaccination sites in Napa and San Francisco.
NAPA, Calif. - Mass vaccinations are gaining traction, as multiple Bay Area communities step up their shots.
From Antioch to Mountain View, San Francisco to St. Helena, providers are ready and raring to go, as long as unreliable supplies hold out. It s a giant jigsaw puzzle every day, said Glen Newhart, President and CEO of the St. Helena Hospital Foundation.
Most of St. Helenaâs first responders and teachers have chosen to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.
About 80% of the St. Helena Fire Department and 60% of the St. Helena Police Department had received at least their first dose of the vaccine as of Tuesday, according to Fire Chief John Sorensen and Police Chief Chris Hartley.
Most St. Helena Unified School District personnel will receive their vaccines on Friday afternoon at the St. Helena Hospital Foundationâs invitation-only vaccine clinic at the Napa Valley College Upper Valley Campus.
About 50 school employees were vaccinated last Friday after Superintendent Marylou Wilson was notified the clinic had some doses left over toward the end of the day.
Two Bay Area community clinics cut through red tape to speed vaccines for seniors
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Dr. Rebecca Parish speaks to Les Morgan as he arrives at the Stanley Middle School parking lot drive-through vaccination clinic to get a shot.Nina Riggio / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Don and Carol Franklin, 75 and 73, wait 30 minutes during post-vaccination observation alongside their dog, Ace, at the Stanley Middle School parking lot in Lafayette.Nina Riggio / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Dr. Rebecca Parish received the approvals necessary to begin a drive-through vaccination center at Stanley Middle School parking lot in Lafayette.Nina Riggio / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less