. LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) As California increases COVID-19 vaccinations, supply issues are becoming a critical problem, and some counties say they are rapidly running out. County officials say they have most of the resources large vaccine centers and personnel to run them but lack the doses they need. “Our ability to protect even more L.A. County residents in the coming weeks and months is entirely dependent and constrained by the amount of vaccine we receive each week, and often, we do not know from one week to the next how many doses will be allocated to L.A. County,” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a news conference Wednesday.
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Knowing it’s your turn to get vaccinated is one challenge. Making an appointment to get the shot is yet another, according to several San Diegans.
Elizabeth Kostas is one of them. Kostas, a dental hygienist living in Carmel Valley, says it took her 10 tries to schedule an appointment at a mass COVID-19 vaccination site near Petco Park. Each time she saw an open slot, she raced to fill in her information only to be told that there were no longer available spots, forcing her to start again.
“If I got ill and I hadn’t acquired that appointment, how am I going to feel? That’s a horrible feeling,” said Kostas, who added that she had the same issue when attempting to make an appointment through her health care provider, Scripps. “I don’t mean to sound alarmist or emotional, but it’s a matter of life and death.”