Answering questions about COVID-19 vaccine, doctors confident that it is safe
The Pew Research Center conducted a survey and found that 40 percent of Americans are unwilling to take the covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them. 23ABCâs Kristin Vartan spoke with healthcare experts to address the misconceptions surrounding the vaccine.
Posted at 11:08 AM, Dec 16, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-16 14:08:59-05
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) â With anything new comes uncertainty. With uncertainty, can also be coupled misinformation. And as some Americans have expressed concern for safety from the quick turnaround of the vaccine, healthcare professionals locally have weighed spoke with 23ABC to set the record straight.
The question was bound to come up at some point: What happens when an employer tells its workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine but some don t want to?
Bottom line, an employer can make vaccinations a condition of employment, workplace specialists say. But it s not always that simple â it has to be job-related, for example, and local employers say they intend to proceed cautiously.
Federal authorities say no less than three-quarters of the population will have to be vaccinated before the pandemic can be brought fully under control. Given how divisive the pandemic has already been, how thoughtfully employers approach the matter could prove critical.
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As the first 327,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine begin arriving in California, most San Joaquin Valley hospitals expect their initial shipments within the next few days.
Some hospitals, however, have already begun receiving them. In a video posted to Twitter, employees of Valley Children’s Hospital applauded next to a freezer set to negative 78 degrees Celsius, the temperature colder than Antarctica’s annual average that’s needed to store the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech. The Madera County hospital was one of the first to receive the 17,000 doses in this first batch slated for the Valley.
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UPDATE: Public Health waiting on vaccines, expected to dole out to local hospitals
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Posted at 2:08 PM, Dec 14, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-14 19:04:00-05
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) â Kern County Public Health said it is still waiting on shipments of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine but when they arrive, there is already a schedule to begin distributing those vaccines to local hospitals.
Public Health said that the vaccines will be distributed to hospitals in the following doses:
Adventist Health Bakersfield â 1045 doses
Adventist Health Delano â 305 doses
Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley â 240 doses
Bakersfield Heart Hospital â 275 doses
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital â 1040 doses
Good Samaritan Hospital â 140 doses