In-Depth: Informal caregivers now eligible for vaccine
Family caregivers can get vaccinated
People who care for elderly friends and relatives can now get the COVID-19 vaccine.
and last updated 2021-02-15 14:58:45-05
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Millions more Californians are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, and many don t know they can get it.
On February 2, the California Health Alert Network sent out new guidelines, clarifying that Informal Caregivers should be given priority access to the vaccine.
According to the letter, an Informal Caregiver is an unpaid family member or other person who regularly aids and supervises the daily care of an elderly or disabled person, but need not live in the same house.
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With the prick of a needle, an elderly Chula Vista man was vaccinated against COVID-19 on Dec. 21, drawing cheers and applause from a room filled with health care workers.
Carlos Alegre had just become one of the first San Diegans to receive a vaccine that fights the novel coronavirus, raising people’s hope that the county, and the country, will emerge from the pandemic, perhaps by mid-to-late summer.
For the record:
4:02 PM, Jan. 12, 2021The original version of this article said that the CDC estimates 55 to 82 percent of the public will need immunity to the coronavirus to halt the pandemic’s spread. Those figures were actually reported by non-CDC researchers in a journal published the CDC.