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Readers who shared with The Times back in May 2020 their vision of a post-pandemic California update their letters to account for everything that's happened since then. ....
Readers who shared with The Times back in May 2020 their vision of a post-pandemic California update their letters to account for everything that's happened since then. ....
Print Nearly every phase of California’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been met with a mixture of enthusiasm and angst. But few groups have been as eager or as concerned as the latest to wrestle with the availability of vaccines: parents. The state on Thursday expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines to adolescents from the ages of 12 to 15. In Los Angeles and many other counties, people in that age group must be accompanied by or receive consent from a parent or guardian to receive their shot. Some parents are jumping at the chance to protect their kids from COVID-19, and from its rare but worrisome counterpart, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C. Downtown L.A. resident Ginny Brideau has already secured an appointment for her 12-year-old daughter, Iolani, to be vaccinated at Ralphs on Monday. ....
How COVID vaccination rates look county-by-county across the United States Updated 8:43 AM; By Andrew Selsky, Hannah Fingerhut and Christopher Weber | The Associated Press So few people came for COVID-19 vaccinations in one county in North Carolina that hospitals there now allow anyone 16 or older to get a shot, regardless of where they live. Get a shot, get a free doughnut, the governor said. Alabama, which has the nation’s lowest vaccination rate and a county where only 7% of residents are fully vaccinated, launched a campaign to convince people the shots are safe. Doctors and pastors joined the effort. On the national level, the Biden administration this week launched a “We Can Do This” campaign to encourage holdouts to get vaccinated against the virus that has claimed over 550,000 lives in the U.S. ....
Vaccine Reluctance Is Waning, But Still Significant, New Poll Finds The Associated Press So few people came for COVID-19 vaccinations in one county in North Carolina that hospitals there now allow anyone 16 or older to get a shot, regardless of where they live. Get a shot, get a free doughnut, the governor said. Alabama, which has the nation s lowest vaccination rate and a county where only 7% of residents are fully vaccinated, launched a campaign to convince people the shots are safe. Doctors and pastors joined the effort. On the national level, the Biden administration this week launched a We Can Do This campaign to encourage holdouts to get vaccinated against the virus that has claimed over 550,000 lives in the U.S. ....