Mix-Up Causes Sonora Woman To Get Different COVID Vaccines
An 89-year-old woman in Tuolumne County received both vaccines, but a mix-up at a vaccination site in Sonora landed Joan Lawton with one Pfizer shot and one Moderna shot.
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An 89-year-old woman in Tuolumne County received both vaccines, but a mix-up at a vaccination site in Sonora landed Joan Lawton with one Pfizer shot and one Moderna shot.
Securing a vaccination card doesn't necessarily mean your Covid-19 vaccine status is in your medical records.
Saturday helped a weekend push for vaccine equity as different clinics target demographics often underserved and try to close the equity gap seen statewide.
The decline in demand for vaccines is forcing Greater Sacramento-area counties to change their vaccination approach. Some are now taking the shot to the community instead.
"For me it didn't matter if I knew them or not. It was giving someone a chance at a healthy and full life."
Just a few months ago, California was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Hospitals across the state were drowning in patients, and ambulances were idling outside with people struggling to breathe, waiting for beds to open.
Hundreds of Oak Ridge High School students in El Dorado Hills were told to stay home due to an uptick in positive COVID-19 cases that may be months old.
Instead of putting opioid users in jail, a proposal moving through the California Legislature would give them a place to inject drugs under supervision to ensure they don't die from accidental overdoses.
As the nation reacts to the conviction of Derek Chauvin, a new study from a group of U.S. researchers shows the significant negative toll police killings of Black Americans has on the mental health of other Black Americans.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has completed its inspection of the Baltimore-based Johnson & Johnson vaccine maker Emergent BioSolutions Tuesday and "cited a number of observations concerning whether the facility's processes met our requirements and standards."
"If you get the vaccine, it's like helping one another," 16-year-old Brisa Chavez said.
UC Davis says they have identified another first-known local case of a third COVID-19 variant.
Democrats in the California Senate said Wednesday they want to spend the state's projected multibillion-dollar budget surplus on things such as making college debt-free for students, paying for the health care of some older, low-income adults living in the country illegally and partnering with first-time homebuyers in the state's expensive market.
California has now opened up COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to every adult and anyone over 16.
The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been shelved due to reported side effects.
