Fresno County health officials are expecting a big shipment of vaccines next week, and now they're looking for more providers to help give and store the shots.
Fresno County restaurant, grocery store employees can get COVID vaccine starting next week
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Essential workers are moving from the checkout line to the front of the vaccine line.
More farm and food workers, including grocery store employees, will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine starting next week.
For Shannon Houston of Tower Health Foods, she says the news is a huge relief.
Throughout the pandemic, Houston says they stayed busy providing health to the community in the form of vitamins and nourishment.
Now, she says her own health can be a priority so she can return to helping others.
Fresno County health officials are in what they call 'serious talks' at the federal and state level to get a mass vaccination site, and have identified the Save Mart Center as an area of interest due to its large parking lot.
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California is seeing a statewide struggle to meet COVID-19vaccine demands as shortages hamstring local distribution efforts, according to reports.
A number of counties, including Los Angeles County, have seen shipments of vaccines shrink over the past few weeks. Some people have had their appointments for the first shot canceled as a result of supply issues, according to the L.A. Times. The supply of vaccine, we acknowledge that’s going to be our rate-limiting step, Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s health and human services secretary, said Tuesday. We always hope for more, we continue to work with the federal administration to push for more, but that will be one of our biggest challenges.
Fresno County health officials seeing overwhelming demand for COVID vaccine
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) People hoping to get an initial dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will have to wait as Fresno County health officials are seeing an overwhelming demand, but little supply. We ve had to pause first dose clinics for now because of the lack of COVID vaccines coming into Fresno County, says Fresno County Public Health Division Manager Joe Prado.
Prado says based on the supply they have at this point, they ll be focusing on second dose appointments. In the next two weeks, we re doing second dose clinics at the fairgrounds, and the Sierra Pacific Ortho Site as well, he said. There s not a lot of additional first dose clinics we can do at this time.