COVID-19 vaccines aplenty but some Californians struggle to get one Share Updated: 12:56 PM PDT Apr 28, 2021 By Janie Har Share Updated: 12:56 PM PDT Apr 28, 2021
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Show Transcript FIRST. THIS IS KCRA 3 NEWS AT 4:00. TEO: GOOD MORNING. IT’S WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28TH. I’M TEO TORRES. DEIRDRE: AND I’M DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK. HERE’S A LOOK AT OUR BIG STORIES TODAY. TEO: FOUR MORE COUNTIES HAVE MOVED TO THE LESS RESTRICTIVE ORANGE OR YELLOW TIERS. HOWEVER, SACRAMENTO, SAN JOAQUIN, STANISLAUS PLACER AND SOLANO COUNTIES REMAIN IN THE RED TIER. THESE COUNTIES HAVE CASE RATES THAT ARE ABOUT TWICE AS HIGH AS THE STATE AVERAGE. THERE ARE 13 COUNTIES STILL IN THE RED, AND MORE THAN HALF OF THEM ARE IN OUR AREA. DEIRDRE: AN INCREASE IN DEATHS OVER THE PAST YEAR, FUELED BY THE PANDEMIC, HAS SPED-UP A SACRAMENTO COUNTY CEMETERY’S PLANS FOR A NEW FUNERAL CENTER. CALVARY CEMETERY IN CITRUS HEIGHTS WILL BREAK GROUND ON THE CENTER THIS MORNIN
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Hearing of excess vaccine and unfilled appointments frustrates Dr. Aaron Roland, a family physician who has been lobbying for doses to inoculate his patients, many of whom are low-income, immigrants or elderly.
The San Francisco Bay Area doctor has more than 200 patients who have inquired when he will offer inoculations against the coronavirus. One patient, who is 67, said he walked into a Safeway supermarket because signs said doses were available.
“But they said, ‘Oh no, they’re not really available. You just have to go online, just sign up online.’ It’s not something he does very easily,” said Dr. Roland, whose practice is in Burlingame, south of San Francisco.
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Accompanied by wife, Mariana Jimenez, left, Weldin Lemus, center, receives the Johnson & Johnson s COVID-19 vaccine from registered nurse Anne-Marie Zamora at a Cedars-Sinai sponsored pop-up vaccine clinic at the Watts-Willowbrook Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. California, swimming in vaccine, is in a far different place than it was just weeks ago when simply scoring an appointment was cause for celebration. Today, Los Angeles, San Diego and other populous counties are advertising that anyone can walk in for a shot and the state is texting reminders that plenty of appointments are available. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)