![]() ![]() Nearly 64% of Californians are fully vaccinated, according to The Times’ vaccine tracker, but that figure is too low to curb an expected fifth surge of COVID-19 this winter. Officials hope demand for the vaccine - and booster shots - grows across the state this week amid the new Omicron threat. The TV station quoted Walgreens and CVS as saying they were working on replenishing stores with more shots. Matt Willis, Marin County’s health officer, told KGO-TV. The demand has increased so quickly that not all of our pharmacies have been able to keep up with that demand, in terms of just getting supplies through the regional distribution networks,” Dr. KGO-TV reported that one pharmacy in Marin County ran out of vaccine on Friday, forcing appointments to be canceled through Sunday. “Obviously, if there’s emerging information that requires us to rethink the safety messaging, we’ll be coming back both to the board and to the public.”ĭemand is so high for booster shots in Marin County that some residents are reporting difficulty getting an appointment this week from local pharmacies. “We need people to be sensible and cautious, and we’re going to pay a lot of attention to the science,” Ferrer said. While wearing masks in public, avoiding indoor crowded settings and, especially, getting vaccinated all afford some degree of protection, those tools work best when used together. Health officials have long stressed the importance of taking a layered approach to combating the coronavirus. Omicron’s impact on the COVID-19 pandemic will depend on a variety of factors that will take days to weeks for scientists to untangle. Download for iOS or Android.Science & Medicine How bad will Omicron be? Scientists won’t really know for months ![]() And, get breaking news alerts in the FOX 11 News app. Get your top stories delivered daily! Sign up for FOX 11’s Fast 5 newsletter. This Associated Press contributed to this report. And that’s outdoor seating, as confirmed and provided by the restaurant." The guests specifically required outdoor seating. ![]() "The guests and the restaurant followed all applicable state and county public health guidance. Newsom said he realized as soon as he sat down at the outdoor table that the group was larger than he had expected to celebrate the 50th birthday of Jason Kinney, a political adviser that Newsom said he has known for 20 years.įOX 11 reached out to Newsom's office and they referred us to his previous apology and will not comment on the specifics of this report.Ī spokesperson for Jason Kinney sent us the following statement: She said, "It got louder and louder and so they had some sliding glass doors that they were able to close, so then it was a closed-off room but you could still hear them with how loud they were."Īfter the woman heard his public apology she said, "I was surprised because it didn’t look like he was uncomfortable being there until the very end until people were looking at him and staring at him as he was leaving the room." It was a bit annoying since you’re spending hard-earned money to go there." "While we were there we realized there was a very loud party going on in a room 20 feet from us. ![]() He has suffered severe political backlash since it surfaced Friday that he and his wife attended the party with a dozen friends at the French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco.įOX 11 spoke to the woman who took the photos and told us: Newsom says he made ‘bad mistake’ attending pricey party in defiance of COVID-19 guidelines Newsom attended birthday dinner that didn't follow COVID-19 guidelines, regrets decision.On Monday Newsom apologized for what he called 'a bad mistake' in attending a birthday party that broke the very rules that he has been talking about to slow the spread of the coronavirus. "If I didn’t know how long they’d been there and how in with the association they were I would say the medical association should fire the president and lobbyist cause it reflects really poorly on them."įOX 11 reached out to Norman Corcoran and the CMA for comment but never heard back. Neither of them, as a matter of fact, no one at the table was wearing a mask or social-distancing despite the CMA funding an ad campaign this year urging people to wear masks.Ĭourt says, "The message is to forget the pandemic, sit as close as you can, no face-coverings, no masks, no social-distancing, this is the state’s medical association, they speak for the doctors in the state, and their chief lobbyist and the president are sitting shoulder to shoulder with the governor as though its’ any time in American history not in the time of a pandemic." ![]()
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