Vaccines

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are removed from cold storage to be thawed for use on Dec. 15, 2020 at UC Davis Health. Photo courtesy of UC Davis Health
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Why has CA only used 35% of its vaccine doses?
Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, January 5. New strategies on the way Three weeks after doses of the coronavirus vaccine began arriving in California, only 35% of them have ended up in people’s arms — raising questions about the effectiveness of the state’s vaccination strategy at a critical phase in the pandemic. California has administered […]
By • January 5, 2021
Image of vaccine vial and sign with a slash through it. Image via iStock
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Health care workers refuse COVID vaccine
As California confronts its darkest moment yet of the pandemic, complications in the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine — which Gov. Gavin Newsom billed as the “light at the end of the tunnel” — suggest that the tunnel may be longer than previously thought. Although the Golden State was slated to receive around 2.1 million […]
By • January 4, 2021
Recapping the stories that epitomized California in 2020. Image via iStock
Politics
With 2020 hindsight: Recapping the stories that defined California life
Coronavirus, of course, detonated our every expectation of 2020. For the most fortunate, this created room for new pastimes, new priorities. For the least so, it hollowed out holes that can never be filled. Nor was COVID our only profound challenge. There were raging wildfires, again. There was an overdue reckoning with racism, again. There […]
By • December 31, 2020

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