State of California Changes the Vaccine Distribution Program
The Dept. of Public Health announces three major changes. First, the state is taking the authority for distribution away from the counties. There will be a statewide program for distribution only. Second, the state is turning the distribution program over to Blue Shield. Third, the state started with a Phase and Tier system, that focused on certain high exposure populations to get vaccines first. Health care, first responders; and older persons were prioritized. Then it has focused on food and agriculture workers. We had hoped that essential workers such as construction would be in the next set of Tiers. Unfortunately, the state has decided that from here, they will prioritize by age, with descending tiers from the current 65 and older group. That will put many younger construction workers in a later group to receive vaccines.
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