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Contra Costa County elected and health officials are set to host a virtual town hall on Friday to update the community on the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination rollout.
The Town Hall is set to take place on Facebook live from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Watch live by clicking on Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ Facebook Page, or on Youtube here.
Wicks will join Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia and Contra Costa Health Services Deputy Officer Dr. Ori Tzvieli as panelists at the town hall.
“We will discuss the latest information on the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out in Contra Costa and take your questions via Facebook,” Gioia stated in his newsletter.
Contra Costa Health Services has received roughly 1,000 vaccination requests per hour since expanding COVID-19 vaccine eligibility Thursday to all residents 65 and older, county officials said Friday. While the county and its partners expect to administer an average of
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, there are 2 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine sitting in cold storage units across the state of California.
Bay Area governments and health care providers are opening new sites to administer vaccines and ramping up the number of shots given per day, as California tries to catch up with much of the rest of the country in doling out doses amid the worst surge of the pandemic. Local officials said Friday that the vaccine rollout is cramped by limited supply and a deluge in demand from residents over the age of 65 deemed eligible by the state to get.
Bay Area officials worry about supply constraints in rush to distribute vaccines
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Donna Bernadou, a resident at the Waters Edge Lodge nursing home in Alameda, participates in a physical exercise class on Friday The retirement community isn’t scheduled to receive coronavirus vaccines until Jan. 20th.Marissa Leshnov / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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UC Berkeley University Health Services pharmacy director Efren Bose prepares a dose of the Moderna vaccine before administering it to fellow University Health Services staff at Tang Center near UC Berkeley on Thursday.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Jacqueline Ellington, a Contra Costa County health care worker, prepares to receive her first dose of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at a clinic at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill on Friday.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less