May 21, 2021
Fifteen-year-old Felipe Caceres isn’t fond of shots and needles. But when his school district in Davis opened a vaccine clinic for students his age, he quickly hopped in line.
“We don’t know everything, and there’s always a possibility you could get sick, but the goal is to be safe,” said Caceres, who is the last in his household to get a vaccine. “I’m a little nervous, I’m not that good with shots. But this is for the greater good.”
On May 10, the Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency authorization of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for adolescents ages 12 and up. Following the announcement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the California Department of Public Health gave their approvals for using the vaccine in individuals 12 and older.
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A syringe is filled with a dose of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site organized by the United Farm Workers, Kern Medical and the Kern County Latino COVID-19 Task Force on March 13, 2021 in Delano. The San Joaquin Valley is home to some of the least vaccinated counties in California.
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Celia Maldonado has made three appointments to get a COVID-19 vaccine since late March, and she’s canceled each one of them.
“I canceled an appointment just this week,” the 31-year-old second-grade dual Spanish/English language immersion teacher said. “I’ve been feeling super, super anxious about this whole vaccine thing because I feel like there’s no clear answer to my concerns. It’s sort of driving me crazy.”
Demand for Vaccine Declines as Variants Rise in this County
Because these strains are considered more contagious than the ordinary coronavirus that set off the global pandemic in early 2020. about half of the variant cases are from the B.1.1.7 strain of COVID-19.
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(TNS) - At least 50 cases of coronavirus linked to variant strains emerging around the world have surfaced in Fresno County , but the county s top doctor said he believes there are many more such infections that have not yet been detected through testing.
Dr. Rais Vohra , interim health officer for the Fresno County Department of Public Health , said Thursday that about half of the variant cases are from the B.1.1.7 strain of COVID-19, more commonly known as the U.K. variant since it was first identified last fall in the United Kingdom .
While current Tulare County COVID-19 metrics are still near record lows since the pandemic started in March 2020, there s evidence those metrics show signs of plateauing and even slightly increasing.
As of Friday, Tulare County s COVID-19 daily case rate is 3.3 per 100,000 population, and the positivity rate is 1.9%. The county scored 2.2% in the state s Healthy Place Index.
Tulare County s case rate has hovered between 3.1 and 3.3 cases per 100,000 for the past several weeks. To move from the orang tier to the even less restrictive yellow tier, the county s COVID-19 case rate must drop below 2. The county s Healthy Place Index also increased from 1.9 to 2.2%, pushing that metric from the yellow tier to the orange.
California allows vaccinations for everyone age 16 and up
Apr. 16, 2021 at 6:00 am
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AMY TAXIN and DON THOMPSON, Associated Press
As California began offering vaccinations to everyone age 16 and over Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom urged more residents to sign up for appointments and not let apprehension over inoculations get in the way of protecting themselves against the illness.
Nearly half of Californians eligible for vaccination have received at least one shot against the coronavirus, Newsom said as the country’s most populous state began vaccinating everyone, regardless of occupation or health condition.
It comes as California and other states have seen vaccine supplies rise in recent weeks, despite the recent pause of the use of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine as U.S. government health advisers evaluate whether a handful of unusual blood clots were linked to the shot.