Though it's not concrete evidence of the COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness, the data shows a sharp drop in the number of employees calling in sick at Community Medical Centers since a vaccine became available. And those results are being replicated from Visalia to Sacramento to Israel. In fact, UC Davis Health...
Dollar General Will Pay Its Workers To Get a COVID-19 Vaccine
[aggregation-styles] KCRA Television Dollar General wants its employees to get COVID-19 vaccines, so it's offering to pay them to do it. The chain said Wednesday that it will give its workers a one-time payment equivalent to four hours of pay after receiving a completed vaccination. "We do not want our...
Tulare COVID Vaccine Clinic Turned Away People From San Jose, Oakland
People not eligible to sign up to receive a COVID-19 vaccine managed to find a way to do so in Tulare County. Somehow, internal registration links that were sent to specific targeted groups were then shared through social media. It's unclear if anyone actually got the shot, but Tulare County Health...
Fresno County Leaders Wants To Get 3,000 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses a Day Administered by Week’s End
Fresno County Department of Public Health leaders told the Board of Supervisors they want to deplete all their COVID-19 vaccine supply by the middle of next week. That's a shift from an earlier philosophy of holding some back for the required second doses people will eventually need. "Unless the state...
COVID Vaccine To Be Required for Los Angeles Unified School District Students Prior To Returning To Campus
[aggregation-styles] CBS-TV Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Students at all Los Angeles Unified campuses will be required to get vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to their return to in-person learning, officials said Monday. In a pre-recorded briefing cited by the Los Angeles Times, Supt. Austin Beutner said the requirement would...
Thousands of COVID Vaccine Doses Sent Back by Fresno County After ‘Data Logger Issues’
When Fresno County received it's initial allotment of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, it was clear there was a problem with at least some of the 14,800 doses received on December 22. It's now clear just how big the problem was. Over a third of them are being returned. A data logger that...
Los Angeles Begins Issuing Digital Vaccine Verification Which Could Be Used in the Future as ‘Passport’ to Gain Access to Flights and Venues
[aggregation-styles] The Daily Mail Los Angeles is launching a digital iPhone receipt for COVID-19 vaccinations, which could one day become a 'vaccine passport' that would be required for such activities as airline travel and live concerts. The plan being rolled out this week will see Los Angeles County partner with...
Stay at Home Order Likely To Be Extended, Newsom Says. Possible 1-Shot Vaccine Raises Hopes.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's regional stay at home order, originally scheduled to end December 28 in the San Joaquin Valley region, will likely continue for several more weeks. "It's very likely, based on those current trends, that we'll need to extend that stay at home order," Newsom said during a midday...
The Wealthy Scramble for COVID-19 Vaccines: ‘if I Donate $25,000 … Would That Help Me?’
[aggregation-styles] Yahoo!News They're offering tens of thousands of dollars in cash, making their personal assistants pester doctors every day, and asking whether a five-figure donation to a hospital would help them jump the line. The COVID-19 vaccine is here — and so are the wealthy people who want it first....
Online Tool Tells When You May Be Able To Get a COVID-19 Vaccine
[aggregation-styles] ABC News With the U.S Food and Drug Administration authorizing the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and likely authorization of Moderna's on the horizon, the first vaccines are being delivered to medical providers and long-term care facilities in states across the country and starting to be administered this week. But most...