California Governor Gavin Newsom holds a vial of the new vaccine for the Chinese communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia) at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles on Dec. 14, 2020.
California on Monday (Jan. 18) became the first state in the nation to have more than 3 million confirmed cases of the Chinese communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia).
According to Johns Hopkins University, California, which reported 2 million cases on Dec. 24, 2020, surpassed the 3 million mark less than a month later, setting another grim milestone. California’s number of infections reached 1 million on Nov. 11 after 292 days since the first confirmed case was found on Jan. 25 of last year, and went on to surpass 2 million 44 days later.
The data show that California leads other large states in the number of cases, with Texas now having more than 2 million confirmed cases and Florida more than 1.5 million.
California is vaccinating more people than any other state, and we’re taking 40 percent of the doses and distributing them to health care workers and the most vulnerable people,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. (On vaccination) progress – we still need to do more. We continue to increase our efforts to achieve the goals of speed, equity and safety.”
This coincides with comments he made in early January when he decried California’s immunization rates as “not good enough.”
As of Jan. 17, providers reported administering 1.39 million doses of vaccine statewide (1,393,224) and delivering 3.22 million doses (3,226,775), the state said. But to date, California has vaccinated fewer than 2,500 of every 100,000 residents, a rate well below the national average, according to federal data. In contrast, Texas was the first state in the nation to vaccinate 1 million residents and continues to lead the way in vaccine administration.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Pfizer and Moderna have distributed about 31.2 million doses of the vaccine in the U.S., but fewer than 12.3 million doses have been administered as of Jan. 15, 2021. U.S. health officials last year projected that 20 million Americans could be expected to be vaccinated by the end of 2020, but that number ended up being below 4 million.
California has pinned much of its hope on a mass vaccination campaign to reduce the number of confirmed diagnoses, but has still encountered bottlenecks in the actual rollout. On Sunday, Erica S. Pan, the state’s epidemiologist, urged the discontinuation of a batch of Moderna vaccine, largely because of severe allergic reactions in vaccine recipients that required medical treatment.
Pan said fewer than 10 people needed medical attention within 24 hours, all of whom were vaccinated in the same community, and no other similar clusters of medical visits have been identified. Pan did not say how many cases there were or where they occurred.
According to KTGV-TV, six health care workers in San Diego, California, suffered allergic reactions after receiving vaccines at a vaccination center on Jan. 14. The center has now switched to other vaccines.
Moderna later issued a statement saying the company “does not know if similar adverse events have occurred at other vaccination centers that may have received the same batch of vaccine.”
The CDC said that people may experience side effects for a few days after vaccination, including fever, chills, headache, swelling or fatigue, which are normal and are signs that “the body is building up protection.
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