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Blue Shield stops overseeing California vaccine program
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We’re back! Kind of!
For the first time in months, Los Angeles County residents can eat inside a restaurant, take an indoor yoga class and catch a film in an actual movie theater.
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This modest progress is made possible by the county’s advancement
from the purple tier, the strictest category in the state’s four-level coronavirus road map, to the
more lenient red tier.
And L.A. County is not the only one moving a step closer to pre-pandemic life. A dozen other counties Orange, San Bernardino, Contra Costa, Sonoma, Placer, Mendocino, San Benito, Tuolumne, Siskiyou, Amador, Colusa and Mono also officially
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California counties that have refused to sign on to the state’s new COVID-19 vaccine program run by Blue Shield of California are expected to instead reach a separate agreement with the state to end a stalemate that threatened to slow delivery of shots.
Blue Shield President Paul Markovich said Friday that counties were concerned about signing the vaccine distribution contract with a private company, which had been a requirement for all vaccine providers that wanted to continue receiving doses in California under the new program. A spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health confirmed the change.
“They’re much more comfortable with an agreement with the state, which is fine by us as long as there’s agreement that they will participate in the performance management system that allows us to deliver on the performance in our contract,” Markovich said in a call with reporters Friday. “It should be just fine.”
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