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California Starts Makeover of Vaccine Plan Amid Mounting Frustrations with Rollout

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The California Department of Public Health announced an updated COVID-19 vaccine delivery plan this week as the state faces growing criticism over a slow coronavirus vaccine rollout. But the plan, which prioritizes age over risk of infection, is receiving backlash from people with disabilities who may be immunocompromised and don’t yet meet the current age requirement. Currently, those 65 and older are eligible to be vaccinated, in addition to select groups of essential workers. Even eligible seniors, though, report long waits in the cold and trouble navigating appointment systems. Meanwhile, another coronavirus variant, different from the one originating in the U.K., is spreading across California. We'll talk about the latest coronavirus news impacting Californians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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As the coronavirus mutates quickly, medical experts are calling for stricter adherence to masking and social distancing rules and faster vaccinations.

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California announced plans last week to move to an age-based system to speed up vaccinations, which has drawn backlash from people who are immunocompromised and some essential workers frustrated over delays.

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Delays made worse this past weekend when anti-vaccine protesters managed to temporarily

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Vaccine makers are trying to adapt their formulas and doses to a rapidly mutating coronavirus,

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while state officials scrambled to speed up a rocky vaccine rollout to stop the more transmissible variants from taking hold.

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Over the weekend, a group of maskless anti-vaccine protesters

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managed to shut down a major vaccine site at Dodger Stadium in LA for nearly an hour, angering

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seniors who'd already been waiting hours to get their shots. Stanford professor, medical doctor,

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