California Vaccine Rollout Beset by Stockpile Shortage, Logistical Challenges

Publisher: Courthouse News Service

After receiving her first dose of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine Friday at a distribution site nestled between palm trees of a Los Angeles park, health care worker Ana Giron finally brushed away some of the stress and anxiety she’s carried since the start of the pandemic. Giron, who works at a dental clinic in Pasadena, waited 20 minutes for the first of two required doses, but she’s waited months to take this step towards immunization for a virus that has killed nearly 360,000 Americans to date.