The standards upend months of careful planning by a working group of experts convened by state health officials to develop statewide eligibility rules for counties. “Gavin Newsom just sent me to the back of the line to get vaccinated.” Because of the pandemic, I no longer have access to regular medical care, and COVID-19 could kill me if I got it,” Stanford University student Ariela Algaze wrote on Twitter Tuesday. “I am 22, disabled, and immunocompromised. As a result, someone younger than 65 with a condition such as diabetes, heart disease, an organ transplant, or cancer will not be prioritized for weeks, even months. The new system emphasizes age rather than people with chronic medical conditions that make them vulnerable to severe effects of COVID-19. But state and county health officials still cannot plan more than a week ahead for how many doses they’ll be able to administer, Yolanda Richardson, secretary of the Government Operations Agency, said at the briefing.

“At this moment of scarcity, we need to make sure vaccine is not just used to get to herd immunity, but to ensure that our most vulnerable” people are protected from severe COVID-19 illness, hospitalization or even death, Ghaly said.įederal officials told the nation’s governors today that they can expect about a 16% rise in their weekly allotments over the next three weeks. About 6.2 million people in California are 65 or older. More than 2.5 million people in California have been vaccinated in the past seven weeks, and about 125,000 now are receiving doses each day, the state’s top health official, Dr. Some counties allow people 65 and older to be vaccinated, while others still restrict it to those 75 or older. Counties will “move in unison,” according to state officials, and have much less leeway than they did to set eligibility criteria.

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