SCC STILL HASN'T REPORTED THAT IT GOT THE SECOND SET OF VACCINE, MUCH LESS A THIRD! Not on their web site, not on Twitter, not on Facebook, nothing in the Mercury News. No update on vaccinations given.
Is it declining to get vaccine because it can't figure out how to give shots?
California has finally joined the program where CVS and Walgreens will give shots to LTCF. Three weeks or more too late, and still a month out for them to vaccinate who was supposed to be group 1A. (Yet the Governor wants his 4 kids back in school by mid-February.)
The CDC reports that California has given only 20% (294K) of the 1.476M doses that have been shipped, or about 25% of the doses received before this week. I recall OWS indicated vaccines had to be used in 3 weeks before they had to be shipped back.. I've since seen contradictory info since, so maybe that is wrong.
EDIT: Pfizer indicates up to 35 days (30 in shipping container, 5 in refrigerator after that) storage without a super freezer.
My understanding is that California received 327K Pfizer doses about Dec. 14 (3 weeks would be Jan 4), 233K Pfizer + 622K Moderna during the pre-Christmas week, so that would be a total of 1.182M. If that's accurate, that would mean 294K have been shipped this week.
If that 3 weeks is correct, I HOPE there will be a lot of shots given over the next 5 days!!! If you are associated with an organization (County health office or medical organization) that has the vaccine, make it happen. It is going to reflect really poorly on you if you have to ship life saving medicine back.
Is it declining to get vaccine because it can't figure out how to give shots?
California has finally joined the program where CVS and Walgreens will give shots to LTCF. Three weeks or more too late, and still a month out for them to vaccinate who was supposed to be group 1A. (Yet the Governor wants his 4 kids back in school by mid-February.)
The CDC reports that California has given only 20% (294K) of the 1.476M doses that have been shipped, or about 25% of the doses received before this week. I recall OWS indicated vaccines had to be used in 3 weeks before they had to be shipped back.. I've since seen contradictory info since, so maybe that is wrong.
EDIT: Pfizer indicates up to 35 days (30 in shipping container, 5 in refrigerator after that) storage without a super freezer.
My understanding is that California received 327K Pfizer doses about Dec. 14 (3 weeks would be Jan 4), 233K Pfizer + 622K Moderna during the pre-Christmas week, so that would be a total of 1.182M. If that's accurate, that would mean 294K have been shipped this week.
If that 3 weeks is correct, I HOPE there will be a lot of shots given over the next 5 days!!! If you are associated with an organization (County health office or medical organization) that has the vaccine, make it happen. It is going to reflect really poorly on you if you have to ship life saving medicine back.