California Coronavirus Updates: California Pauses Johnson & Johnson Vaccinations
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
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California state officials have directed counties and other providers to pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine while federal agencies look into a possible but rare blood clotting side effect.
According to the Associated Press, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the pause would neither affect plans to start inoculating all eligible adults on Thursday nor will it affect the state’s broad reopening plans set for mid-June.
Newsom and other high-profile California officials publicly received shots of the J&J vaccines in an attempt to demonstrate its safety. California was already expecting fewer J&J doses because of production issues.
Waiting and hoping: COVID-19 vaccine chasers seek out leftover doses in Sacramento By Benjy Egel, The Sacramento Bee
Published: February 28, 2021, 6:00pm
Share: LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 22: People wait in the standby line to receive a COVID-19 vaccination at Kedren Community Health Center on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. People younger than 65 are getting the COVID-19 vaccine. They are getting a vaccine by waiting on standby. When people do not show up for their appointment, rather than let the vaccine go to waste, the health center is administering on a first come first serve. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Tami Mueller of Sacramento waits in line to add her name to a vaccine waitlist at the Urgent Care Now in Arden-Arcade, California on Friday, February 19, 2021. Mueller has been unable to get a vaccine through her medical provider, so she is hoping, along with more than two dozen others in line, to get a same-day call to fill in for a COVID vaccine when a scheduled appointment cancels or is a no-show. (Jason Pierce/The Sacramento Bee/TNS)
Waiting and hoping: COVID-19 vaccine chasers seek out leftover doses in Sacramento
Benjy Egel, The Sacramento Bee, (TNS)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. About a dozen people lingered outside Sacramento State’s University Union around 3 p.m. Tuesday, waiting not for Starbucks or a student government meeting but for a chance at Covid-19 immunity.
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