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
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Print As roughly 4,000 Americans die each day from COVID-19, public health and medical experts are aghast that the vaccines that could save them remain beyond reach due to multiple governmental failures involving planning, coordination and public communication.
“Many people are eager to get the vaccine, and they want to know when and where they are going to get it,” said Dr. Eric Toner, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “For the most part, people at the local level don’t know, and people at the state level are still trying to figure it out.”
Calls to doctor offices and pharmacies about vaccines yield no answers, leaving people frustrated and anxious. Emails from doctors’ offices lack specifics. County public health websites may offer the best information, and people in some places can use them to sign up for vaccinations.