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As of Monday, intensive care units in the San Joaquin Valley were still full, and intensive care capacity in the vast Southern California region had dipped to 2.7 percent.
Nevertheless, the wheels are in motion.
As Hilda Solis, a Los Angeles County supervisor who also spoke at the hospital on Monday, put it: The offramp is in plain view.
Heres what else you may want to know about Californias vaccine rollout:
How many doses did California get, and where are they going?
Mr. Newsom, who spoke outside the Los Angeles hospital early Monday afternoon, said that some 33,000 doses of the vaccine arrived in California and had been distributed to sites around the state. (He added the grim observation that that was roughly the number of new virus cases reported on Monday.)
The remainder of the states initial allotment of about 327,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were on their way in coming days, he said. Theyll be divvied up by regions across the state. (You can see how many doses are set to go to each region here.)
As the governor has repeatedly noted, those will go to a small fraction of Californias roughly 2.4 million health care workers, who will need two shots a few weeks apart.
Late Monday afternoon, the governor said on Twitter that he had just gotten word from Pfizer that 393,000 doses would be sent to California next week.
By the end of the month, the state estimates that it will have gotten about 2.1 million doses and, of course, more in the new year.read more
How Many Vaccine Doses Does California Get?
