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It was shortly after 6 a.m. Monday in California when the first shot resumed nationwide.
There was a vaccine.
“I think healing is coming,” said Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in Queens, NY, whose officials said she was the first person in the country to be vaccinated against Covid-19 outside the trial. “I hope this is the beginning of the end of a very painful time in our history.”
Days later, Governor Gavin Newsum and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garsti watched health care workers at Kaiser Permanent Los Angeles Medical Center push on the sleeves of their scrubs to get some first shots of California.
The governor and the mayor made small talk and posed for the camera. The masked workers applauded as the shots were administered.
[Track coronavirus cases and hospitalizations with The Times’s map.]
Intensive care nurse, 32, Helen Cordova, was the first – both at Sunset Boulevard’s major hospital and in the state, according to In the governor’s office.
“I feel great,” she said, wearing a mask and blue scrubs in a short video she posted on Twitter. “I’m excited, I’m optimistic.”
The launch of a massive, high-demand logistics venture involving FedEx trucks, ultracold storage and sensitive time – when the epidemic was one day an undisputed turn – was relieved by California leaders on Monday with a vigilance appeal.
“We keep that horror and we keep that hope together,” Mr. Garcetti said. “When we celebrate, don’t give up.”
The virus has been drowning in hospitals since spring, despite millions of Californians living under some strict rules enforced by the state.
[Read about restrictions in place now.]
As of Monday, intensive care units in the San Joaquin Quinn Valley were still full, and intensive care capacity in the vast Southern California area had dropped to 2.7 percent.
Still, the wheels are in motion.
As Hilda Solis, a Los Angeles County supervisor who also spoke at the hospital Monday, told her: “This is a clear vision of the tragedy.”
Here’s what else you need to know about the California vaccine rollout:
How many doses did California get, and where are they going?
Speaking outside a Los Angeles hospital on Monday afternoon, Mr. Newsme said about 33,000 doses of the vaccine had arrived in California and were distributed to locations around the state. (He added a serious observation that is the number of new virus cases reported on Monday.)
He said the initial allocation of about 327,000 doses of phaser vaccine in the state was coming up in the remaining days. They will be separated by regions across the state. (You can see how many doses are set to go in each area here.)
As the governor has repeatedly noted, it will go to a small portion of California’s approximately 2.4 million health care workers who will need two shots in a few weeks.
The governor’s late Monday afternoon Said on Twitter That he had just received word from Pfizer that 393,000 doses would be shipped to California next week.
By the end of the month, the state estimates it will receive about 2.1 million doses in the new year and, more.
[Look up how many vaccine doses are set to go to each state.]
How is the state prioritizing who will be vaccinated?
In most areas of the country, frontline health care workers will be the first priority, followed by people living in long-term care facilities.
Then things get a little less specific; The state has unveiled its vaccine rollout plan, in which experts will help develop a distribution plan as more doses become available.
It is clear that essential workers, then the elderly or those with health risks, will be ahead, before the rest of the general public. But there are millions of essential workers, and already, the Los Angeles Times recently reported, companies are rushing to inoculate their workers.
Mr Newsme said teachers would be “a priority.”
Mr Solis also insisted on Monday, as Mr News has said, that health equity would be the top of the mind.
What happened to California’s independent vaccine review?
If you need a quick refresher, in October the governor announced that the state would conduct an independent review of its own, federally approved coronavirus vaccines, as leaders across the country are concerned that the federal vaccine approval process will be politicized. Then, a week later, the governors of Washington, Oregon, and Nevada said they would join the California effort.
Thus was born the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup, which on Sunday confirmed the federal review process that led Pfizer to vaccinate.
When Mr. News announced the review, he said the group would not delay the delivery of the vaccine. And this week, the state considered the panel’s work consistent with the federal government.
How is the vaccine being sent? Where do you get your vaccine if you are not an essential worker or part of a high-risk group? What are the side effects?
My colleagues have answered more of those questions in this comprehensive section and here.
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Here’s what else to learn today
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Joseph R. Biden Jr. received 306 votes yesterday, formally formalizing his victory in the presidential election. And California 55 votes Officially pushed them to the 270-vote threshold. [The New York Times]
Also: Can Congress reverse the results of the Electoral College? Probably not. [The New York Times]
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Following his French laundry faux pass, Mr. News unveiled a new ethics policy, Stopping any paid campaign or political adviser from acting as a lobbyist. But it’s not clear how the policy applies to a lobbyist-like person whose birthday party Mr. Newsma attended a Napa Valley restaurant. [The Sacramento Bee]
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“It can happen to anyone.” Artist F.K.A. Twigs sued actor Shia La Lauf In Los Angeles, citing constant abusive relationships. [The New York Times]
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If you missed it, code-breakers Just broke a zodiac killer cipher. [The San Francisco Chronicle]
And finally
Cliff House, the San Francisco food institution that has been open for more than 150 years in any form, will close permanently at the end of the month. The current owners of the rest restaurant rent say the epidemic has not helped matters, but the move was ultimately the result of a long-running dispute with the National Park Service, which sees the building at sea.
Dan and Marie Huntallas have run the restaurant since 1973, and restored it years later, according to a statement sent by the restaurant according to history.
The couple is adorned with hand-painted valences, silver leaf and hand-pressed copper ceilings, Bradbury and Bradbury wall ingots, antique decorations and historic historical photographs that create a beautiful, comfortable setting that takes visitors to a typical U.S. Document
Now, many of the memories collected over the years will be auctioned off, “lost forever,” the statement said.
My colleague Jim Wilson visited Cliff House on Monday and captured these images.
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