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Sharp HealthCare caregivers celebrated after Carlos Alegre, a long-term care patient, received the Pfizer vaccine in Chula Vista, on Dec. 21.Credit.Mario Tama/Getty Images
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After what felt like an almost lightless holiday season and start to the new year, California officials in recent days have pointed to signs that the stateâs overwhelming coronavirus surge is at last subsiding â or at least not getting worse.
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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.
White House COVID testing czar says ALL Americans will get the vaccine by June and is confident the super-infectious UK strain is no more dangerous
White House coronavirus testing czar Admiral Brett Giroir says he s confident all Americans will be inoculated by late June We still expect that any American who wants a vaccine can be vaccinated by June. That’s really very exciting, he said on Fox News Sunday
He added that the vaccine is effective against the new mutant strain that emerged in the United Kingdom
He said the US will reach the end of the pandemic when 70 to 80 percent of the population has either been vaccinated or previously infected