“I anticipate that we will be overwhelmed in that first week, but hope that it will quiet down a bit after that. But even with a very significant increase in the supply of vaccine, we’re estimating that it will still take a couple months,” said Los Angeles County Chief Science Officer Dr.
Paul Simon on Friday.Simon was speaking about this week’s massive expansion — on Thursday — of vaccine eligibility to all adults over 50 years old.
Previously the approved group included only essential workers and those over 16 with co-morbidities.The expansion comes at the order of Governor Gavin Newsom, who on Thursday announced that the eligibility for those 50+ would begin April 1.
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