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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains a \u003ca href=\"#correction\">correction\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873099/como-declarar-sus-impuestos-si-recibio-beneficios-por-desempleo-que-saber-y-donde-encontrar-ayuda\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#help\">Where to find free or low-cost tax help resources online\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The 2021 IRS deadline for filing your taxes has been pushed to May 17 to give people more time to get organized in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with this extra time, your situation is likely to be even more complicated if you’ve been unemployed during the course of the pandemic — since you have to pay taxes on federal unemployment if you earned above a certain amount in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new IRS tax filing deadline now less than a month away, here's what you need to know about filing your taxes if you've claimed unemployment benefits this year — and where you can find free or low-cost tax help, even after many such support services closed up shop on the original IRS deadline of April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>I Received Unemployment Benefits in 2020. How Are They Taxed?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike many other states, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/income-types/unemployment.html\">Californians do not have to pay state income tax on unemployment benefits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc418\">Unemployment benefits \u003cem>are\u003c/em> subject to federal taxes\u003c/a>, but the American Rescue Plan created \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/new-exclusion-of-up-to-10200-of-unemployment-compensation\">new thresholds for what’s taxable\u003c/a> in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your modified adjusted gross income (AGI) is less than $150,000, for singles or married people filing separately, you don’t have to pay taxes on the first $10,200 of 2020 unemployment benefits you earned. For married people filing jointly, if each spouse received unemployment, this exemption applies to the first $10,200 worth of benefits for both individuals. If your modified AGI is $150,000 or more, this exemption does not apply to you. And the threshold stays the same for all statuses — it will not double to $300, 000 if you are married and filing a joint return, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you file a Form 1040-NR (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1040-nr\">U.S. Non Resident Alien Income Tax Return\u003c/a>), the IRS says your spouse isn’t eligible for the tax break on the first $10,200 worth of benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Employment Development Department (EDD), \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/Get_Tax_Information_(Form_1099G).htm\">Pandemic Additional Compensation\u003c/a> — that extra $600 federal benefit bump people got from March until late July, and the extra $300 federal benefit bump people started getting in late December — is taxable and must be included in your gross income. However, don’t confuse this money with one-off stimulus checks from the U.S. government (most recently $1,400), which are not taxable. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867087\">Read more about pandemic federal benefits if you're claiming unemployment in California.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Kind of Unemployment Documentation Do I Need For Filing My Taxes?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you received unemployment benefits in 2020, EDD should have already sent you \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/1099G-info-sheet.pdf\">your 1099G form\u003c/a>, which is a record of the total taxable income EDD has issued to you in a calendar year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t gotten this form for some reason, you can print one or request a paper copy through your \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/Unemployment/UI_Online.htm\">UI Online\u003c/a> account on EDD’s website.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=\"news_11862122\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD recommends that if your 1099G form shows a $0 amount, you should call 1-866-401-2849 (Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.) \u003ca href=\"https://askedd.edd.ca.gov/AskEDD/s/topicdetail?cat=Form_1099G&catN=Form_1099G&scat=Form%201099G&scatN=Form_1099G&ttitle=I%20don%E2%80%99t%20agree%20with%20the%20amount%20on%20my%20Form%201099G.&topicid=ka0t0000000Li5ZAAS&parentSubCat=false\">You can also report form problems online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What If I Didn’t Collect Unemployment Benefits in 2020, but I Still Received a Form 1099G?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/fraud-info-sheet.pdf\">EDD has already confirmed it’s paid out more than $10 billion in fraudulent claims\u003c/a>, there will certainly be tax forms going out to people whose identities have been used to file fake claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get a form documenting funds you never received, EDD says to call 1-866-401-2849, but “I would encourage people to use the online tool versus trying to call,” said Amy Spivey, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://tax.uchastings.edu/litc/\">UC Hastings Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://askedd.edd.ca.gov/AskEDD/s/topic?parentSubCat=false&scatN=Form_1099G&scatL=Form+1099G&category=Form_1099G&cat=Form_1099G\">report fraud on your 1099G form\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://askedd.edd.ca.gov/AskEDD/s/\">EDD's site\u003c/a>. Just follow the topic boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870636\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11870636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the EDD websi\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/edd-screenshot-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of EDD's website, showing various options for questioning issues with your 1099G form. \u003ccite>(EDD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you feel there is an error on your 1099G form and can’t get an amended one from EDD before filing time, make sure you \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> report that income when you file your taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Spivey, if there’s a mismatch between the earnings on your return and a 1099G the IRS has for you in its system, you’ll likely get a notice flagging underreported income. \"And then at that point, you could respond directly to the IRS as well,\" advised Spivey. The downside of that, she said, is that if you're eligible for a refund, it could delay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Do Withholdings Work With Unemployment Income?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"You aren’t required to take any tax withholdings from your unemployment,\" said Spivey — but you could have opted in to a flat 10% withholding previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spivey said most people she’s seen through her work \u003cem>haven’t\u003c/em> had withholdings on their unemployment benefits. \"I had expected that this was going to be a big problem for the 2020 tax filing season,\" said Spivey, \"but ultimately, I don’t think it’s been much of an issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She attributed that to the exemption thresholds put in through the American Rescue Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Should I Just Submit for an Extension on Filing My Taxes?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Spivey said she anticipates \"a significant number of people that will not do [their taxes] this year, and then get charged penalties and interest.\" Sometimes people then experience a \"snowball effect,\" she said. \"They don't do one year and then it causes anxiety, and then they just don't do them for a couple of years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spivey strongly encouraged people to file their taxes to avoid getting sucked into this cycle. If you need more time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/extension-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return\">submitting for an extension via a Form 4868\u003c/a> will buy you until Oct. 15 to file your tax return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're anticipating needing help to file, remember that filing after the official deadline will mean that many of the free and low-cost options for tax prep that \u003cem>would\u003c/em> have been available before that date are no longer available. And speaking of tax help ...\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>Where Can I Find Free or Low-Cost Help Filing My Taxes, and When Will It Be Available?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Spivey said one of the main questions she’s getting lately is: \"Who can still help me?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because a chunk of the free and low-cost support services close up shop on April 15, despite the deadline extension to May 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is year-round tax help through groups like \u003ca href=\"https://tax-aid.org/\">Tax-Aid\u003c/a>. 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Let us know\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Looking for kids’ vaccine appointments? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894546/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11-near-me\">Read our guide to finding a COVID vaccine appointment for a child age 5-11.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Eligible people can now get a booster shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890031/where-can-i-get-a-pfizer-covid-booster-shot-near-me-heres-whos-eligible\">See our separate guide to who can get a Pfizer booster and how to find a booster near you\u003c/a>, or keep reading for how to get your first shots of a COVID vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immunocompromised people who already got two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine can now get a third shot to boost their protection from COVID-19. 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Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Everyone in California ages 16 and older is now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, no matter where they live or work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html\">Immunocompromised people with certain conditions\u003c/a> who already got two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine can now also get a third shot to boost their protection from COVID-19. \u003ca href=\"#where\">Read more about getting a third dose if you qualify. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your COVID-19 vaccine will be free. You do not need health insurance to be vaccinated. You also will not be asked for proof of citizenship or about your immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that if you’re making an appointment for someone who’s under 18, make sure the vaccine offered is the Pfizer vaccine. This vaccine was previously available for young people ages 16+, and has now been expanded to ages 12-15, who will be able to get their shot in California starting May 13. Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873290/covid-vaccines-for-ages-12-15-in-california-find-an-appointment-near-you\">making a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appointment for those aged 12-15,\u003c/a> and get more information about \u003ca href=\"#which\">which vaccines are being offered right now.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890031/where-can-i-get-a-pfizer-covid-booster-shot-near-me-heres-whos-eligible\">Looking for information on Pfizer booster shots instead? Get our guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Additionally, when using \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> to find a vaccine appointment, people 12 to 17 will need a parent or legal guardian to make the booking, since My Turn asks you to “certify that I am at least 18 years of age, or the parent or legal guardian of the minor patient.” [aside postID=\"news_11867754\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SKIP STRAIGHT TO:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#where\">How can I make a COVID-19 vaccine appointment near me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#residency\">\u003cstrong>Do I have to get vaccinated in my own county?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#county\">Find your county’s sign-up links.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"where\">\u003c/a>I’m Immunocompromised. How Can I Get My Third Dose?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847685\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1-1020x589.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1-1536x886.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer checks for COVID-19 test appointments from motorists arriving at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Oct. 8, 2020. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immunocompromised people who already got two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine can now get a third shot to boost their protection from COVID-19. Right now, only a very small group of people with compromised immune systems qualify for the third dose, and people with other conditions like diabetes or heart disease are not currently included. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html\">Read the CDC’s list clarifying exactly who is eligible\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is you, where can you get your extra shot? You can now \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">make an appointment for a third shot through the state’s My Turn site\u003c/a>, by hitting the “additional appointments” button.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine\">CVS\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp#guidlines\">Walgreens\u003c/a> have begun offering a third dose to eligible immunocompromised people. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine\">Make an appointment through CVS\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp#guidlines\">make an appointment through Walgreens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area counties are rolling out these third shots for those who qualify. \u003ca href=\"#county\">Check your county’s vaccine webpage.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please note: Currently only the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines are authorized for an additional dose. This means that if you originally got the J&J shot, you still aren’t eligible even if you qualify as immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR has reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/14/1027597108/6-things-to-know-if-youre-immunocompromised-and-considering-a-3rd-shot\">the FDA says that there wasn’t enough data available to extend the authorization for an additional dose for the J&J shots\u003c/a>. The FDA and the CDC said that they are “actively engaged” to determine the best course of action for recipients of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and expect to know more “very shortly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"where\">\u003c/a>Where Can I Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Marrs (R) gives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot to Kassandra Martinez, an EVS attendant and lead, at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler / AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11856204\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main-1020x675.jpg\"]Don’t assume you’ll be proactively contacted about getting your COVID-19 vaccine. Now that everyone is eligible for a vaccine, you should do the following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Immunocompromised people who qualify for a third dose may not be able to use all of the avenues below yet to schedule that extra dose. \u003ca href=\"#where\">Read more about specifically getting a third dose if you qualify.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890031/where-can-i-get-a-pfizer-covid-booster-shot-near-me-heres-whos-eligible\">Looking for information on Pfizer booster shots instead? Get our guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Find a COVID-19 Vaccine Through My Turn\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> is the state’s tool that allows Californians to schedule vaccination appointments, as supplies allow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My Turn will ask you for your information, and then for a ZIP code or location you’d like to search for vaccine appointments around. You can give your home location, or you can also input other locations to see what sites are available farther from your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you find and schedule appointments for a vaccination site through My Turn, the California Department of Public Health says that you won’t necessarily need to be a resident or a worker in that particular county where the vaccination site is based. So don’t worry if My Turn is suggesting appointments a different county other than the one you live or work in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please note that many of the mass vaccination sites you may have been familiar with offering vaccines earlier in the year — like San Francisco’s Moscone Center and the Oakland Coliseum — are now closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re trying to find an appointment at a certain location and can’t see it in the search results, try searching on My Turn for that site’s \u003cem>exact\u003c/em> ZIP code, rather than your own. Remember that if you’re not seeing a specific site in the search results, it might just be because of low supply or lack of available appointments. You’ll also be shown a lot of pharmacy results: Keep scrolling through them to make sure you’re not missing clinic results hidden among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11859829\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/qSg2h-span-style-text-align-center-display-block-vaccine-doses-administered-by-county-span-1.png\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn is available in the following languages\u003c/a>, which you can select in the first drop-down menu: English, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Armenian, Japanese, Khmer, Punjabi, Russian and Farsi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My Turn will ask you to provide a cellphone number and an email address. The state says this is so you can use two-factor authentication to doubly confirm your identity and make your appointment, and to prevent bots automatically scooping up available appointments online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have an email address or a cellphone number, or have questions, you can call the California COVID-19 Hotline at 833-422-4255 (Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-5 p.m PT) and sign up over the phone. Both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking operators are available. Callers needing information in other languages will be connected to translation service that offers 254 other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been given a special code through a local community organization for scheduling a COVID-19 vaccination, be sure to input it in the “Access Code” (formerly called an “Accessibility Code”) section on My Turn. \u003ca href=\"#codes\">Find more information about vaccine access codes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sign up for notifications and check if you’re currently able to make an appointment \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">through My Turn.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Find a COVID-19 Vaccine Through Your County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#county\">Visit your county’s public health website \u003c/a>to learn how your county is vaccinating its residents. It’s also likely that you can get vaccinated by the county you work in, if it’s different to your county of residence. The availability of vaccination appointments will be based on the doses that the state has supplied your county with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make sure your county reaches out to you about appointment availability, sign up for your their notifications if they’re offering them. \u003ca href=\"#county\">Find your Bay Area county in our list.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Find a COVID-19 Vaccine Through Your Health Care Provider\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have health insurance, check with your provider to see if they can offer you your COVID-19 vaccine. If you don’t have health insurance but get medical care through a city/county-run provider, you can check with that location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well as trying to talk with your health care provider directly, check the website for your provider to see if they’re offering the ability to make appointments, and sign up for their vaccine notifications if they’re offering them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Find a COVID-19 Vaccine Through a Local Pharmacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several pharmacy chains are offering online appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine, and some also offer walk-in vaccines with no appointment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine?icid=cvs-home-hero1-banner-1-link2-coronavirus-vaccine\">CVS COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.riteaid.com/pharmacy/covid-qualifier?utm_source=state&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Covid19&utm_content=Covid19scheduler_CA_2_12_21\">Rite Aid COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mhealthappointments.com/covidappt\">Safeway (Albertsons) COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/findcare/vaccination/covid-19?ban=covid_vaccine_landing_schedule\">Walgreens COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a> (or call 1-800-WALGREENS, 1-800-925-4733)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://book-costcopharmacy.appointment-plus.com/d0bm29vq/?e_id=5515#/\">Costco’s COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The volunteer-run site \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinateca.com/\">VaccinateCA\u003c/a> shows pharmacies near you that are offering vaccinations. You can also see these pharmacies using \u003ca href=\"https://vaccinefinder.org/\">VaccineFinder\u003c/a>, a tool run by Boston Children’s Hospital in partnership with the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.northerncalifornia.va.gov/services/covid-19-vaccines.asp\">VA Northern California Health Care System\u003c/a> says it’s offering COVID-19 vaccines to all enrolled veterans of all ages, and also their registered caregivers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.northerncalifornia.va.gov/services/covid-19-vaccines.asp\">Find out more about getting vaccinated as a veteran through VA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SKIP STRAIGHT TO:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"#residency\">Do I have to get vaccinated in my own county?\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#county\">Find your county’s sign-up links and eligibility rules\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"jj\">\u003c/a>What Do I Need to Know About the Johnson and Johnson Vaccine Pause?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Home base primary care Pharmacist Erin Emonds filling syringes with the Johnson & Johnson Janssen vaccine\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CDC and the FDA say the pause will allow them to investigate these reactions more. They also say it will help health care providers be ready to spot this rare blood clotting event and treat it appropriately. \u003ccite>(Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 23, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-science-business-europe-coronavirus-vaccine-839bf6a7c857b25df04078402b4d7b8a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter\">U.S. health officials lifted an 11-day pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccinations\u003c/a> following a recommendation by an expert panel. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the benefits of the single-dose COVID-19 shot outweigh a rare risk of blood clots. This means use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is allowed again in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of an “abundance of caution” the Food and Drug Administration originally recommended a pause on the use of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine in the U.S. on April 13 after a very rare type of blood clot showed up in six women within about two weeks of receiving the vaccination. This news came just as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">California was about to open up COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to all people ages 16 and older\u003c/a>. If you have questions, here’s what you need to know about exactly why this happened:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: How Small Are the Risks With the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: More than 6.8 million people in the U.S. have received the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine, so these are very, very small risks statistically. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that all six cases occurred among women between the ages of 18 and 48, and symptoms occurred six to 13 days after vaccination. Among the six women, one case was fatal and one patient is in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Johnson & Johnson vaccine was not “recalled,” “banned” or “canceled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered\">The relative risk is really, really low for these severe blood clots\u003c/a>,” said Dr. Catherine Blish, infectious disease specialist at Stanford Medicine. “So we’ve had the six cases out of almost seven million vaccines delivered, which is about one in a million. And while this has been hugely controversial, the birth control pills are associated with about one in 1,000 to [one in 100] rate of blood clots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: If the Johnson & Johnson Risks Are So Small, Why Did the CDC and FDA Recommend the Pause?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: The CDC and the FDA said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973731/johnson-johnson-vaccine-and-blood-clots-what-you-need-to-know\">the pause would allow them to investigate these reactions more\u003c/a>. They also said it would help health care providers be ready to spot this rare blood clotting event and treat it appropriately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To repeat: More than 6.8 million people in the U.S. have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The blood clots that prompted the pause showed up in six women. But because of the rare nature of these types of clots, health officials emphasize that they should not be treated the way other clots often are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly, Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, said doctors should avoid using heparin, a standard blood-thinning treatment, because in these clots it “can cause tremendous harm, or the outcome can be fatal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for specialized treatment is one reason the CDC and the FDA saw an urgent need to get the word out about this rare combination of side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical experts say this kind of pause happens a lot and is “totally normal” and reasonable in order to investigate these extremely rare cases. Regulators don’t know whether the six cases are related to the vaccine, and they need to do a deep dive into the individual patients to determine what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: I Got the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine. Do I Need to Look Out for Problems?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: If you got your Johnson & Johnson vaccine shot less than three weeks ago, you should look out for severe headache, abdominal pain, leg pain or shortness of breath. If you experience any of these symptoms, seek treatment with your health provider, an urgent care clinic or a hospital emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, the number of people affected is very, very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you got your shot more than three weeks ago, and you have experienced none of these symptoms, you likely do not need to worry about your J&J vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: How Does the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Affect the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: A joint statement by the Bay Area’s county health officers on April 24 recommends that the region’s health providers should resume administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine “to prevent community spread and severe illness and death from COVID-19.” This means you’ll see the J&J vaccine being offered at appointments around the Bay Area once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Getting Your Vaccine Through a Health System Like Kaiser Permanente\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1113\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut-800x464.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut-1020x591.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut-1536x890.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Registered nurse Emily Enos loads the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe ahead of distribution to seniors above the age of 65 who are experiencing homelessness at the Los Angeles Mission, in the Skid Row area of Downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2021, as the fight against the coronavirus pandemic continues. \u003ccite>(Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health are administering vaccines in the Bay Area with supplies issued directly from the state rather than the county. You might hear these organizations referred to as multicounty entities (or MCEs), i.e. health systems that serve multiple counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente says it will administer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible people “regardless of their health plan membership.” To schedule an appointment through Kaiser Permanente as a non-member, you’ll need to obtain a medical record number (also referred to as an MRN) first via phone to be able to then go online, use the number and make your appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its site, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Kaiser Permanente \u003c/a>has a \u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/covid-19/not-a-kaiser-permanente-member\">step-by-step process\u003c/a> for non-members wishing to get their COVID-19 vaccine through Kaiser. It says non-members can also call them at (866) 454-8855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Health says if you’re not currently a Sutter patient and wish to become one to make an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine once you become eligible, you can \u003ca href=\"https://mho.sutterhealth.org/registration/mho-enroll.html\">visit the Sutter Health sign-up page\u003c/a> and enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"health\">\u003c/a>I Have a Health Condition or a Disability. What About My COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A health care worker holds a dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March, the state opened COVID-19 vaccinations up to people ages 16 to 64 who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine-high-risk-factsheet.aspx\">certain disabilities or health conditions that put them at “the very highest risk” from the coronavirus\u003c/a>, ahead of the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that everyone ages 16 and over is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in California, this eligibility is no longer a factor — but there may still be specific vaccination opportunities within your community that focus on accessibility for disabled Californians seeking the vaccine.[aside postID=\"science_1972824\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immunocompromised people who already got two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine can now get a third shot to boost their protection from COVID-19. Right now, only a very small group of people with compromised immune systems qualifies for the third dose, and people with other conditions like diabetes or heart disease are not currently included. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html\">Read the CDC’s list clarifying exactly who is eligible\u003c/a> and get information about \u003ca href=\"#where\">how immunocompromised people can make an appointment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read \u003ca href=\"https://lighthouse-sf.org/mc-events/lighthouse-hq-covid-19-vaccination-site-4/?mc_id=10396\">more information about the vaccination clinic previously run by \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://lighthouse-sf.org/mc-events/lighthouse-hq-covid-19-vaccination-site-4/?mc_id=10396\">LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://lighthouse-sf.org/mc-events/lighthouse-hq-covid-19-vaccination-site-4/?mc_id=10396\">, \u003c/a>and about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868661/faced-with-inaccessible-systems-sfs-lighthouse-launches-vaccine-pop-up-for-disability-community\">inaccessibility of vaccination systems faced by many disabled Californians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"residency\">\u003c/a>Do I Have to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine in My County?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main.jpg\" alt=\"Nurse in PPE administers vaccine\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main-1536x1016.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nurse Bethlehem Gurmu (L) receives a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from public health nurse Kathy Luu as staff members are vaccinated at the Ararat Nursing Facility in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 7, 2021. Residents and staff at long-term care facilities are on the CDC’s highest priority list for vaccinations. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proving that you live or work in a particular place is most likely to be relevant if you’re getting your vaccine through the county system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area counties get their vaccine supplies from the state, and a county’s public health department will distribute them from there. As a general rule, because of limited vaccine supply, counties are limiting those vaccine appointments to people who either live or work in that county. So if you get your vaccine appointment through the county in which you live or work, be sure to take note of whether there’s residency or employment verification required, and bring it to your appointment if so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you live and work in two different counties? Bay Area counties are vaccinating people who live \u003cem>or\u003c/em> work in that county, which means you could live in, say, Contra Costa County but commute to work in Alameda County, and still get vaccinated by Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11861381\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/vaccine2-1020x720.png\"]When you find and schedule appointments for a vaccination site through the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> tool, however, you \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> need to be a resident or a worker in that particular county where the vaccination site is based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll see an “IMPORTANT NOTE” on My Turn once you get to the appointment scheduling stage, which warns you that because some clinics offered to you might be outside your county of residence, you should check that county’s “official government website to make sure you are eligible to be vaccinated in that County, otherwise your appointment could be cancelled.” Although it’s still a good idea to check a county’s rules, a California Department of Public Health spokesperson says this note is more to reflect “the minority of clinics” that restrict vaccination to county residents. So you shouldn’t worry too much about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health systems like Kaiser Permanente get their vaccine supplies direct from the state, and because they’re not a part of the county system, they can also schedule patients for an appointment in a county even if they don’t live or work in that county.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"county\">\u003c/a>How Is My County Vaccinating Its Residents and Workers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860590\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut-1536x1145.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How is your county vaccinating people right now? (Pictured: Lake Merritt in Oakland) \u003ccite>(miteemaus5/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remember, all California counties are now vaccinating all residents and workers ages 16 and older. Not all counties may be offering third doses to eligible immunocompromised people yet through county sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/vaccines\">Alameda County’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://primarybio.queue-it.net/?c=primarybio&e=alcovaxsignup&ver=v3-ruby-3.6.1&cver=36&man=Alameda%20Queue%20Action&t=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.primarybio.com%2Fr%2Falco-vax-signup\">vaccine sign-up form\u003c/a>. (If in Berkeley, see below as well.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call the Alameda County Community Vaccination POD hotline: 510-208-4VAX (4829)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City of Berkeley COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/covid19-vaccine/\">the city of Berkeley’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CABERKE/signup/22371\">vaccine interest list\u003c/a>. (The city of Berkeley has its own public health department, but also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/covid19-vaccine/#signup\">recommends residents\u003c/a> sign up for Alameda County’s notifications.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11872056/contra-costa-is-offering-vaccines-no-matter-where-you-live\">Contra Costa County is now vaccinating anyone\u003c/a> regardless of where they live, even if that’s outside the county. \u003ca href=\"https://covidvaccine.cchealth.org/COVIDVaccine/\">Make an appointment through Contra Costa Health Services\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call Contra Costa Health Services: 1-833-829-2626\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marin County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.marinhhs.org/vaccine\">Marin County’s vaccination webpage \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.marinhhs.org/vaccine/status\">vaccination options page\u003c/a> (includes links to making appointments) and \u003ca href=\"https://marincountyhc.jotform.com/210187732830049\">vaccine interest form.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Marin residents without internet access can call 833-641-1988 (Marin says that people eligible to get help from this call center are ages 65 or older, living with disabilities and ages 18 or older, in need of home care or personal assistance, need language interpretation (including ASL), have limited or no internet access or need help arranging transportation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/3096/COVID-19-Vaccines\">Napa County’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/501be721c77f4d44b00d9c3811637811\">vaccine interest sign-up form\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call the Napa County Public Information Call Center at 707-253-4540\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City and County of San Francisco COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/covid-19-vaccine-san-francisco\"> San Francisco’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call the San Francisco call center designed to help people who are 65 and older and those with disabilities who are unable to easily access the internet or schedule an appointment through their provider: 628-652-2700.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/covid-19-vaccination\">San Mateo County’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Nfb6DU2gzEin422hrwiD-S6Nu8Fm05tAlD6PWRPnVIxUOUo0N0NUM1VDRUtVMDlBMlZBNFFBOFVNVyQlQCN0PWcu&wdLOR=c539C3515-F3DE-944B-88F3-A8F48EC76AB3\">vaccine notification sign up\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/COVID19-vaccine-information-for-public.aspx\">Santa Clara County’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a>, which has links to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/COVID19-vaccine-information-for-public.aspx#myturn\">vaccine sign-up pages \u003c/a>and phone numbers for various local medical providers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.sccgov.org/covid-19-vaccine-information?mc_cid=0b56edc069&mc_eid=f792944b9a\">Santa Clara has also offered drop-in vaccinations\u003c/a> at multiple locations around the county.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/covid_19_vaccines.asp\">Solano County’s vaccination webpage \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=rCB_XvHlg0-MO85EuEhkITmQkAJBpD5Ap6ySli1u7o1UMlBMV0VWMzdDOEJNVkc2U1VSTVpIWk1JMC4u\">vaccine interest form\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solano County provides \u003ca href=\"https://solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/covid_19_vaccines.asp\">a provider-by-provider list of phone numbers\u003c/a> to call about COVID-19 vaccines\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/novel-coronavirus/vaccine-information/\">Sonoma County’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/novel-coronavirus/vaccine-information/vaccine-distribution/\">Sonoma eligibility guidelines\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/novel-coronavirus/vaccine-information/how-should-i-expect-to-get-my-vaccine/\"> Sonoma provider locations\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sonoma County provides \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/novel-coronavirus/vaccine-information/clinics/\">a provider-by-provider list of phone numbers\u003c/a> to call about COVID-19 vaccines\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Haven’t found the answer to your question? Ask KQED directly.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"which\">\u003c/a>Which Vaccine Should I Get?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1802\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-1536x1081.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-2048x1441.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-1920x1351.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dose of the new one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at a vaccination event March 11, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 vaccines being offered at vaccination sites in California at present are made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson/Janssen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 23, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-science-business-europe-coronavirus-vaccine-839bf6a7c857b25df04078402b4d7b8a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter\">U.S. health officials lifted an 11-day pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccinations\u003c/a> following a recommendation by an expert panel. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the benefits of the single-dose COVID-19 shot outweigh a rare risk of blood clots. This means use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is allowed again in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No similar issues have been reported for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. A similar issue has occurred in Europe with the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is not authorized in the U.S. Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca use a different type of vaccine system than Pfizer and Moderna. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question1\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Read more about the effectiveness of the vaccines. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that if you’re making an appointment for someone who’s under 18, make sure the vaccine offered is the Pfizer vaccine. This vaccine was previously available for young people ages 16+, and has now been expanded to ages 12-15, who will be able to get their shot in California starting May 13. Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873290/covid-vaccines-for-ages-12-15-in-california-find-an-appointment-near-you\">making a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appointment for those aged 12-15,\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As eligibility expands, more and more appointments will hopefully be clearly labeled at the booking stage with their vaccine type so that you can be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">The CDC says that you should “get any COVID-19 vaccine that is available when you are eligible,”\u003c/a> and that you shouldn’t wait for one specific type over another. All currently authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, says the CDC, and they don’t recommend one vaccine over another. So basically: Take the shot you’re offered at the appointment you’re able to get. Even if you try to “pick” one, you’ll probably find that difficult to do, given low supply and that appointments often aren’t offered by vaccine type.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11864473\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you aren’t medically able to get a certain brand of COVID-19 vaccine because of specific allergies you have to its ingredients, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/specific-groups/allergies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/specific-groups/allergies.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">the CDC recommends that you talk to your doctor about getting a different type of COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question3\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Side effects\u003c/a> — like pain or swelling at the injection site, or headaches, fatigue and chills — after getting a COVID-19 vaccination are normal. They’re your immune system telling you the vaccine is working and that your body is creating antibodies. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Read more from the CDC about potential side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">How Do Second Doses of the Vaccine Work?\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868708\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868708\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman getting COVID vaccine dose shot in the arm\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut-800x561.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut-1020x715.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut-1536x1077.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccination. LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired is now providing weekly pop-up vaccination clinics at their San Francisco headquarters. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you get the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, you’ll need a second dose three weeks (21 days) later. If you get the Moderna vaccine, you’ll need a second dose one month (28 days) later. You don’t need a second dose of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get your second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines as close to that recommended interval as you can. However, if your second dose is rescheduled or delayed due to supply, don’t panic. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">The CDC says your second dose may be given up to six weeks (42 days) after the first dose\u003c/a>, if necessary — but that you shouldn’t get the second dose \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">earlier \u003c/i>than the recommended interval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">getting\u003c/i> your second shot? If you weren’t invited to schedule your second shot when you scheduled your first one, make sure you find out at your first appointment how you should schedule that second dose. Some sites will give you the sign-up information on the spot, and others will follow up with you afterward (for example, by email) to arrange your second dose. Try not to leave your first appointment without getting that information. If you’re unsure how to schedule your second dose after you leave, contact the site or organization who gave you your first dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">You are \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">not\u003c/i> immediately protected from the coronavirus after your first vaccination shot\u003c/a>. It takes your body time to build up the necessary antibodies that offer protection against getting sick from COVID-19. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">The CDC says that you’ll be considered “fully protected”\u003c/a> two weeks after your second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Read more about your immunity after getting the vaccine, \u003c/a>and find out more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864473\">what you can (and can’t) do after you’re fully vaccinated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"volunteer\">\u003c/a>Can I Volunteer to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/022821_UFWvaccine_AI_03-e1615233334285.jpg\" alt=\"farmworker gets vaccine shot\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauricio Chavez of Hollister gets a COVID-19 vaccine at Monterey Mushrooms in Morgan Hill on Feb. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Ana Ibarra/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> has a volunteer sign-up portal called \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">My Turn Volunteer, \u003c/a>where you can \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">sign up\u003c/a> for medical and non-medical “general support” shifts at California vaccination sites throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/volunteer-California-vaccine-MyTurnVolunteer-16009060.php\">As reported by SFGate\u003c/a>, working four hours or more as a volunteer through My Turn Volunteer will make you eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine with approval from the clinic administrator. Visit the \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">My Turn Volunteer site \u003c/a>for more information, and visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859540/covid-19-vaccines-how-to-volunteer-to-help-distribution\">our vaccine volunteering guide\u003c/a> for more potential volunteer opportunities, both in-person and remote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose resident Cornelia Arzaga, 76, prepares to receive her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Levi’s Stadium on Feb. 9, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"codes\">\u003c/a>What Are Vaccine Access Codes?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853870\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11853870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap_20365852620782-8aa52cd82f660661d05766e5d9a4cf76084e738a-scaled-e1609950454499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By the end of the day, more people received an injection on Monday than have been vaccinated since the start of the vaccine program on Dec. 18, Judson Howe, president of Adventist Health said. \u003ccite>(Elise Amendola/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been given a special code through a local community organization for scheduling a COVID-19 vaccination, be sure to input it in the “Access Code” (formerly “Accessibility Code”) section on \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a>. The California Department of Public Health says your code can make “appointments at targeted clinics available.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These access codes are part of the state’s drive to make sure underserved groups in California get vaccinated. For example, per a CDPH spokesperson, a particular code “could be used by a community-based organization to make appointments for the 65+ population in impacted communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means the codes are intended to make appointments available \u003cem>only\u003c/em> for those people they’re designed to reach. There were, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/vaccine-access-codes-California-Marin-Los-Angeles-15973557.php\">reports of Bay Area codes intended for eligible people in Black and Latino communities\u003c/a> being circulated among and misused by people living outside those areas. As a result, the California Department of Public Health has now changed the way these codes work, and now \u003cem>only\u003c/em> the individual who was provided with the code will be able to complete the appointment scheduling process online, to prevent misuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a code but it wasn’t directly provided to you by a community group or a health care provider — or you don’t know which groups it’s intended to serve — by using it, you are taking appointment availability away from the person it was meant for. (And if that person has already made an appointment using that code, the state now says you won’t even be able to schedule an appointment with it anyway.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ask\">\u003c/a>Ask Your Question: What Else Do You Want to Know?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"7478\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/7478.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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SKIP STRAIGHT TO:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894546/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11-near-me\">How can I make an COVID vaccine appointment for a child age 5-11?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#where\">How can I make a 12+ COVID vaccine appointment near me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890031/where-can-i-get-a-pfizer-covid-booster-shot-near-me-heres-whos-eligible\">Where can I get a Pfizer booster shot?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#where\">If I’m immunocompromised, how can I get my third dose?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#jj\">What do I need to know about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#which\">Which vaccine should I get? \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#county\">Find your county’s vaccine sign-up links.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Where can you get a COVID-19 vaccine now that everyone in California age 16 and older is eligible? Which county are you allowed to make an appointment in? Who’s eligible for a third dose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for everything you need to know about finding a COVID-19 vaccine near you in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"#ask\">Spotted something you believe needs updating? Let us know\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Looking for kids’ vaccine appointments? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894546/pfizer-covid-vaccine-kids-5-11-near-me\">Read our guide to finding a COVID vaccine appointment for a child age 5-11.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Eligible people can now get a booster shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890031/where-can-i-get-a-pfizer-covid-booster-shot-near-me-heres-whos-eligible\">See our separate guide to who can get a Pfizer booster and how to find a booster near you\u003c/a>, or keep reading for how to get your first shots of a COVID vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immunocompromised people who already got two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine can now get a third shot to boost their protection from COVID-19. Right now, only a very small group of people with compromised immune systems qualifies for the third dose, and people with other conditions like diabetes or heart disease are not currently included. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html\">Read the CDC’s list clarifying exactly who is eligible\u003c/a> and get information about \u003ca href=\"#where\">how immunocompromised people can make an appointment. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, in April \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870973/cdc-vaccine-committee-votes-to-recommend-jj-vaccine-use-again\">U.S. health officials lifted an 11-day pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccinations\u003c/a> following a recommendation by an expert panel. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the benefits of the single-dose COVID-19 shot outweigh a rare risk of blood clots. This means use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is allowed again. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered\">Read more about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause in context\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973731/johnson-johnson-vaccine-and-blood-clots-what-you-need-to-know\">find more FAQs on the CDC and FDA’s original decision\u003c/a>, and read more below about \u003ca href=\"#jj\">the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Ask your question: What do you want to know about getting the COVID-19 vaccine in the Bay Area?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"eligible\">\u003c/a>Am I Eligible for the COVID-19 Vaccine Now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856452\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1230679655.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1230679655.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1230679655-800x440.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1230679655-1020x561.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1230679655-160x88.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man receives the COVID-19 vaccine in the parking lot of The Forum in Inglewood, California. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SKIP STRAIGHT TO:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#where\">How can I make a COVID-19 vaccine appointment near me?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#residency\">\u003cstrong>Do I have to get vaccinated in my own county?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#county\">Find your county’s sign-up links.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"where\">\u003c/a>I’m Immunocompromised. How Can I Get My Third Dose?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847685\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1-1020x589.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/GettyImages-1228963631_1920x-1-1536x886.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer checks for COVID-19 test appointments from motorists arriving at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Oct. 8, 2020. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Immunocompromised people who already got two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine can now get a third shot to boost their protection from COVID-19. Right now, only a very small group of people with compromised immune systems qualify for the third dose, and people with other conditions like diabetes or heart disease are not currently included. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html\">Read the CDC’s list clarifying exactly who is eligible\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this is you, where can you get your extra shot? You can now \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">make an appointment for a third shot through the state’s My Turn site\u003c/a>, by hitting the “additional appointments” button.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine\">CVS\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp#guidlines\">Walgreens\u003c/a> have begun offering a third dose to eligible immunocompromised people. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine\">Make an appointment through CVS\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/topic/promotion/covid-vaccine.jsp#guidlines\">make an appointment through Walgreens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area counties are rolling out these third shots for those who qualify. \u003ca href=\"#county\">Check your county’s vaccine webpage.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please note: Currently only the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines are authorized for an additional dose. This means that if you originally got the J&J shot, you still aren’t eligible even if you qualify as immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR has reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/14/1027597108/6-things-to-know-if-youre-immunocompromised-and-considering-a-3rd-shot\">the FDA says that there wasn’t enough data available to extend the authorization for an additional dose for the J&J shots\u003c/a>. The FDA and the CDC said that they are “actively engaged” to determine the best course of action for recipients of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and expect to know more “very shortly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"where\">\u003c/a>Where Can I Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/RS46602_GettyImages-1230147824-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Marrs (R) gives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot to Kassandra Martinez, an EVS attendant and lead, at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler / AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Don’t assume you’ll be proactively contacted about getting your COVID-19 vaccine. Now that everyone is eligible for a vaccine, you should do the following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Immunocompromised people who qualify for a third dose may not be able to use all of the avenues below yet to schedule that extra dose. \u003ca href=\"#where\">Read more about specifically getting a third dose if you qualify.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890031/where-can-i-get-a-pfizer-covid-booster-shot-near-me-heres-whos-eligible\">Looking for information on Pfizer booster shots instead? Get our guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Find a COVID-19 Vaccine Through My Turn\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> is the state’s tool that allows Californians to schedule vaccination appointments, as supplies allow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My Turn will ask you for your information, and then for a ZIP code or location you’d like to search for vaccine appointments around. You can give your home location, or you can also input other locations to see what sites are available farther from your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you find and schedule appointments for a vaccination site through My Turn, the California Department of Public Health says that you won’t necessarily need to be a resident or a worker in that particular county where the vaccination site is based. So don’t worry if My Turn is suggesting appointments a different county other than the one you live or work in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please note that many of the mass vaccination sites you may have been familiar with offering vaccines earlier in the year — like San Francisco’s Moscone Center and the Oakland Coliseum — are now closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re trying to find an appointment at a certain location and can’t see it in the search results, try searching on My Turn for that site’s \u003cem>exact\u003c/em> ZIP code, rather than your own. Remember that if you’re not seeing a specific site in the search results, it might just be because of low supply or lack of available appointments. You’ll also be shown a lot of pharmacy results: Keep scrolling through them to make sure you’re not missing clinic results hidden among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn is available in the following languages\u003c/a>, which you can select in the first drop-down menu: English, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Armenian, Japanese, Khmer, Punjabi, Russian and Farsi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My Turn will ask you to provide a cellphone number and an email address. The state says this is so you can use two-factor authentication to doubly confirm your identity and make your appointment, and to prevent bots automatically scooping up available appointments online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have an email address or a cellphone number, or have questions, you can call the California COVID-19 Hotline at 833-422-4255 (Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-5 p.m PT) and sign up over the phone. Both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking operators are available. Callers needing information in other languages will be connected to translation service that offers 254 other languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been given a special code through a local community organization for scheduling a COVID-19 vaccination, be sure to input it in the “Access Code” (formerly called an “Accessibility Code”) section on My Turn. \u003ca href=\"#codes\">Find more information about vaccine access codes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sign up for notifications and check if you’re currently able to make an appointment \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">through My Turn.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Find a COVID-19 Vaccine Through Your County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#county\">Visit your county’s public health website \u003c/a>to learn how your county is vaccinating its residents. It’s also likely that you can get vaccinated by the county you work in, if it’s different to your county of residence. The availability of vaccination appointments will be based on the doses that the state has supplied your county with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make sure your county reaches out to you about appointment availability, sign up for your their notifications if they’re offering them. \u003ca href=\"#county\">Find your Bay Area county in our list.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Find a COVID-19 Vaccine Through Your Health Care Provider\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have health insurance, check with your provider to see if they can offer you your COVID-19 vaccine. If you don’t have health insurance but get medical care through a city/county-run provider, you can check with that location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well as trying to talk with your health care provider directly, check the website for your provider to see if they’re offering the ability to make appointments, and sign up for their vaccine notifications if they’re offering them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Find a COVID-19 Vaccine Through a Local Pharmacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several pharmacy chains are offering online appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine, and some also offer walk-in vaccines with no appointment:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cvs.com/immunizations/covid-19-vaccine?icid=cvs-home-hero1-banner-1-link2-coronavirus-vaccine\">CVS COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.riteaid.com/pharmacy/covid-qualifier?utm_source=state&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=Covid19&utm_content=Covid19scheduler_CA_2_12_21\">Rite Aid COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mhealthappointments.com/covidappt\">Safeway (Albertsons) COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.walgreens.com/findcare/vaccination/covid-19?ban=covid_vaccine_landing_schedule\">Walgreens COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a> (or call 1-800-WALGREENS, 1-800-925-4733)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://book-costcopharmacy.appointment-plus.com/d0bm29vq/?e_id=5515#/\">Costco’s COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The volunteer-run site \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinateca.com/\">VaccinateCA\u003c/a> shows pharmacies near you that are offering vaccinations. You can also see these pharmacies using \u003ca href=\"https://vaccinefinder.org/\">VaccineFinder\u003c/a>, a tool run by Boston Children’s Hospital in partnership with the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.northerncalifornia.va.gov/services/covid-19-vaccines.asp\">VA Northern California Health Care System\u003c/a> says it’s offering COVID-19 vaccines to all enrolled veterans of all ages, and also their registered caregivers. \u003ca href=\"https://www.northerncalifornia.va.gov/services/covid-19-vaccines.asp\">Find out more about getting vaccinated as a veteran through VA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SKIP STRAIGHT TO:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"#residency\">Do I have to get vaccinated in my own county?\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#county\">Find your county’s sign-up links and eligibility rules\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"jj\">\u003c/a>What Do I Need to Know About the Johnson and Johnson Vaccine Pause?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Home base primary care Pharmacist Erin Emonds filling syringes with the Johnson & Johnson Janssen vaccine\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48519_GettyImages-1231516409-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CDC and the FDA say the pause will allow them to investigate these reactions more. They also say it will help health care providers be ready to spot this rare blood clotting event and treat it appropriately. \u003ccite>(Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On April 23, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-science-business-europe-coronavirus-vaccine-839bf6a7c857b25df04078402b4d7b8a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter\">U.S. health officials lifted an 11-day pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccinations\u003c/a> following a recommendation by an expert panel. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the benefits of the single-dose COVID-19 shot outweigh a rare risk of blood clots. This means use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is allowed again in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of an “abundance of caution” the Food and Drug Administration originally recommended a pause on the use of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine in the U.S. on April 13 after a very rare type of blood clot showed up in six women within about two weeks of receiving the vaccination. This news came just as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">California was about to open up COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to all people ages 16 and older\u003c/a>. If you have questions, here’s what you need to know about exactly why this happened:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: How Small Are the Risks With the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: More than 6.8 million people in the U.S. have received the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine, so these are very, very small risks statistically. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that all six cases occurred among women between the ages of 18 and 48, and symptoms occurred six to 13 days after vaccination. Among the six women, one case was fatal and one patient is in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Johnson & Johnson vaccine was not “recalled,” “banned” or “canceled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered\">The relative risk is really, really low for these severe blood clots\u003c/a>,” said Dr. Catherine Blish, infectious disease specialist at Stanford Medicine. “So we’ve had the six cases out of almost seven million vaccines delivered, which is about one in a million. And while this has been hugely controversial, the birth control pills are associated with about one in 1,000 to [one in 100] rate of blood clots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: If the Johnson & Johnson Risks Are So Small, Why Did the CDC and FDA Recommend the Pause?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: The CDC and the FDA said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973731/johnson-johnson-vaccine-and-blood-clots-what-you-need-to-know\">the pause would allow them to investigate these reactions more\u003c/a>. They also said it would help health care providers be ready to spot this rare blood clotting event and treat it appropriately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To repeat: More than 6.8 million people in the U.S. have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The blood clots that prompted the pause showed up in six women. But because of the rare nature of these types of clots, health officials emphasize that they should not be treated the way other clots often are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most importantly, Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, said doctors should avoid using heparin, a standard blood-thinning treatment, because in these clots it “can cause tremendous harm, or the outcome can be fatal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for specialized treatment is one reason the CDC and the FDA saw an urgent need to get the word out about this rare combination of side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical experts say this kind of pause happens a lot and is “totally normal” and reasonable in order to investigate these extremely rare cases. Regulators don’t know whether the six cases are related to the vaccine, and they need to do a deep dive into the individual patients to determine what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: I Got the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine. Do I Need to Look Out for Problems?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: If you got your Johnson & Johnson vaccine shot less than three weeks ago, you should look out for severe headache, abdominal pain, leg pain or shortness of breath. If you experience any of these symptoms, seek treatment with your health provider, an urgent care clinic or a hospital emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, the number of people affected is very, very small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you got your shot more than three weeks ago, and you have experienced none of these symptoms, you likely do not need to worry about your J&J vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: How Does the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Affect the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A: A joint statement by the Bay Area’s county health officers on April 24 recommends that the region’s health providers should resume administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine “to prevent community spread and severe illness and death from COVID-19.” This means you’ll see the J&J vaccine being offered at appointments around the Bay Area once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Getting Your Vaccine Through a Health System Like Kaiser Permanente\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1113\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut-800x464.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut-1020x591.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47197_GettyImages-1231086748-qut-1536x890.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Registered nurse Emily Enos loads the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe ahead of distribution to seniors above the age of 65 who are experiencing homelessness at the Los Angeles Mission, in the Skid Row area of Downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2021, as the fight against the coronavirus pandemic continues. \u003ccite>(Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health are administering vaccines in the Bay Area with supplies issued directly from the state rather than the county. You might hear these organizations referred to as multicounty entities (or MCEs), i.e. health systems that serve multiple counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente says it will administer the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible people “regardless of their health plan membership.” To schedule an appointment through Kaiser Permanente as a non-member, you’ll need to obtain a medical record number (also referred to as an MRN) first via phone to be able to then go online, use the number and make your appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its site, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Kaiser Permanente \u003c/a>has a \u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/covid-19/not-a-kaiser-permanente-member\">step-by-step process\u003c/a> for non-members wishing to get their COVID-19 vaccine through Kaiser. It says non-members can also call them at (866) 454-8855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Health says if you’re not currently a Sutter patient and wish to become one to make an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine once you become eligible, you can \u003ca href=\"https://mho.sutterhealth.org/registration/mho-enroll.html\">visit the Sutter Health sign-up page\u003c/a> and enroll.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"health\">\u003c/a>I Have a Health Condition or a Disability. What About My COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11862458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11862458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/GettyImages-1231237331-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A health care worker holds a dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against the coronavirus. \u003ccite>(Phill Magakoe/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In March, the state opened COVID-19 vaccinations up to people ages 16 to 64 who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine-high-risk-factsheet.aspx\">certain disabilities or health conditions that put them at “the very highest risk” from the coronavirus\u003c/a>, ahead of the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that everyone ages 16 and over is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in California, this eligibility is no longer a factor — but there may still be specific vaccination opportunities within your community that focus on accessibility for disabled Californians seeking the vaccine.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immunocompromised people who already got two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine can now get a third shot to boost their protection from COVID-19. Right now, only a very small group of people with compromised immune systems qualifies for the third dose, and people with other conditions like diabetes or heart disease are not currently included. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html\">Read the CDC’s list clarifying exactly who is eligible\u003c/a> and get information about \u003ca href=\"#where\">how immunocompromised people can make an appointment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read \u003ca href=\"https://lighthouse-sf.org/mc-events/lighthouse-hq-covid-19-vaccination-site-4/?mc_id=10396\">more information about the vaccination clinic previously run by \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://lighthouse-sf.org/mc-events/lighthouse-hq-covid-19-vaccination-site-4/?mc_id=10396\">LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://lighthouse-sf.org/mc-events/lighthouse-hq-covid-19-vaccination-site-4/?mc_id=10396\">, \u003c/a>and about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868661/faced-with-inaccessible-systems-sfs-lighthouse-launches-vaccine-pop-up-for-disability-community\">inaccessibility of vaccination systems faced by many disabled Californians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"residency\">\u003c/a>Do I Have to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine in My County?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11856436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11856436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main.jpg\" alt=\"Nurse in PPE administers vaccine\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Vaccination-Main-1536x1016.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nurse Bethlehem Gurmu (L) receives a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from public health nurse Kathy Luu as staff members are vaccinated at the Ararat Nursing Facility in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 7, 2021. Residents and staff at long-term care facilities are on the CDC’s highest priority list for vaccinations. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proving that you live or work in a particular place is most likely to be relevant if you’re getting your vaccine through the county system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area counties get their vaccine supplies from the state, and a county’s public health department will distribute them from there. As a general rule, because of limited vaccine supply, counties are limiting those vaccine appointments to people who either live or work in that county. So if you get your vaccine appointment through the county in which you live or work, be sure to take note of whether there’s residency or employment verification required, and bring it to your appointment if so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you live and work in two different counties? Bay Area counties are vaccinating people who live \u003cem>or\u003c/em> work in that county, which means you could live in, say, Contra Costa County but commute to work in Alameda County, and still get vaccinated by Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When you find and schedule appointments for a vaccination site through the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> tool, however, you \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> need to be a resident or a worker in that particular county where the vaccination site is based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll see an “IMPORTANT NOTE” on My Turn once you get to the appointment scheduling stage, which warns you that because some clinics offered to you might be outside your county of residence, you should check that county’s “official government website to make sure you are eligible to be vaccinated in that County, otherwise your appointment could be cancelled.” Although it’s still a good idea to check a county’s rules, a California Department of Public Health spokesperson says this note is more to reflect “the minority of clinics” that restrict vaccination to county residents. So you shouldn’t worry too much about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health systems like Kaiser Permanente get their vaccine supplies direct from the state, and because they’re not a part of the county system, they can also schedule patients for an appointment in a county even if they don’t live or work in that county.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"county\">\u003c/a>How Is My County Vaccinating Its Residents and Workers?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11860590\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11860590\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS15320_iStock_000019582990_Medium-qut-1536x1145.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How is your county vaccinating people right now? (Pictured: Lake Merritt in Oakland) \u003ccite>(miteemaus5/iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remember, all California counties are now vaccinating all residents and workers ages 16 and older. Not all counties may be offering third doses to eligible immunocompromised people yet through county sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/vaccines\">Alameda County’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://primarybio.queue-it.net/?c=primarybio&e=alcovaxsignup&ver=v3-ruby-3.6.1&cver=36&man=Alameda%20Queue%20Action&t=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.primarybio.com%2Fr%2Falco-vax-signup\">vaccine sign-up form\u003c/a>. (If in Berkeley, see below as well.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call the Alameda County Community Vaccination POD hotline: 510-208-4VAX (4829)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City of Berkeley COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/covid19-vaccine/\">the city of Berkeley’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CABERKE/signup/22371\">vaccine interest list\u003c/a>. (The city of Berkeley has its own public health department, but also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/covid19-vaccine/#signup\">recommends residents\u003c/a> sign up for Alameda County’s notifications.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11872056/contra-costa-is-offering-vaccines-no-matter-where-you-live\">Contra Costa County is now vaccinating anyone\u003c/a> regardless of where they live, even if that’s outside the county. \u003ca href=\"https://covidvaccine.cchealth.org/COVIDVaccine/\">Make an appointment through Contra Costa Health Services\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call Contra Costa Health Services: 1-833-829-2626\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marin County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.marinhhs.org/vaccine\">Marin County’s vaccination webpage \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.marinhhs.org/vaccine/status\">vaccination options page\u003c/a> (includes links to making appointments) and \u003ca href=\"https://marincountyhc.jotform.com/210187732830049\">vaccine interest form.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Marin residents without internet access can call 833-641-1988 (Marin says that people eligible to get help from this call center are ages 65 or older, living with disabilities and ages 18 or older, in need of home care or personal assistance, need language interpretation (including ASL), have limited or no internet access or need help arranging transportation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/3096/COVID-19-Vaccines\">Napa County’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/501be721c77f4d44b00d9c3811637811\">vaccine interest sign-up form\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call the Napa County Public Information Call Center at 707-253-4540\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City and County of San Francisco COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/covid-19-vaccine-san-francisco\"> San Francisco’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call the San Francisco call center designed to help people who are 65 and older and those with disabilities who are unable to easily access the internet or schedule an appointment through their provider: 628-652-2700.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Mateo County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.smchealth.org/covid-19-vaccination\">San Mateo County’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Nfb6DU2gzEin422hrwiD-S6Nu8Fm05tAlD6PWRPnVIxUOUo0N0NUM1VDRUtVMDlBMlZBNFFBOFVNVyQlQCN0PWcu&wdLOR=c539C3515-F3DE-944B-88F3-A8F48EC76AB3\">vaccine notification sign up\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County COVID-19 Vaccines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/COVID19-vaccine-information-for-public.aspx\">Santa Clara County’s vaccination webpage\u003c/a>, which has links to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/COVID19-vaccine-information-for-public.aspx#myturn\">vaccine sign-up pages \u003c/a>and phone numbers for various local medical providers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.sccgov.org/covid-19-vaccine-information?mc_cid=0b56edc069&mc_eid=f792944b9a\">Santa Clara has also offered drop-in vaccinations\u003c/a> at multiple locations around the 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Ask KQED directly.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"which\">\u003c/a>Which Vaccine Should I Get?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1802\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-1536x1081.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-2048x1441.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-1306576537-1920x1351.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dose of the new one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at a vaccination event March 11, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The COVID-19 vaccines being offered at vaccination sites in California at present are made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson/Janssen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 23, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-science-business-europe-coronavirus-vaccine-839bf6a7c857b25df04078402b4d7b8a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter\">U.S. health officials lifted an 11-day pause on Johnson & Johnson vaccinations\u003c/a> following a recommendation by an expert panel. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the benefits of the single-dose COVID-19 shot outweigh a rare risk of blood clots. This means use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is allowed again in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No similar issues have been reported for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. A similar issue has occurred in Europe with the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is not authorized in the U.S. Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca use a different type of vaccine system than Pfizer and Moderna. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question1\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Read more about the effectiveness of the vaccines. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that if you’re making an appointment for someone who’s under 18, make sure the vaccine offered is the Pfizer vaccine. This vaccine was previously available for young people ages 16+, and has now been expanded to ages 12-15, who will be able to get their shot in California starting May 13. Read more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873290/covid-vaccines-for-ages-12-15-in-california-find-an-appointment-near-you\">making a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appointment for those aged 12-15,\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As eligibility expands, more and more appointments will hopefully be clearly labeled at the booking stage with their vaccine type so that you can be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">The CDC says that you should “get any COVID-19 vaccine that is available when you are eligible,”\u003c/a> and that you shouldn’t wait for one specific type over another. All currently authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, says the CDC, and they don’t recommend one vaccine over another. So basically: Take the shot you’re offered at the appointment you’re able to get. Even if you try to “pick” one, you’ll probably find that difficult to do, given low supply and that appointments often aren’t offered by vaccine type.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you aren’t medically able to get a certain brand of COVID-19 vaccine because of specific allergies you have to its ingredients, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/specific-groups/allergies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/specific-groups/allergies.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">the CDC recommends that you talk to your doctor about getting a different type of COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question3\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Side effects\u003c/a> — like pain or swelling at the injection site, or headaches, fatigue and chills — after getting a COVID-19 vaccination are normal. They’re your immune system telling you the vaccine is working and that your body is creating antibodies. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Read more from the CDC about potential side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">How Do Second Doses of the Vaccine Work?\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11868708\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868708\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman getting COVID vaccine dose shot in the arm\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut-800x561.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut-1020x715.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48429_GettyImages-1307808036-qut-1536x1077.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccination. LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired is now providing weekly pop-up vaccination clinics at their San Francisco headquarters. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you get the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, you’ll need a second dose three weeks (21 days) later. If you get the Moderna vaccine, you’ll need a second dose one month (28 days) later. You don’t need a second dose of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get your second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines as close to that recommended interval as you can. However, if your second dose is rescheduled or delayed due to supply, don’t panic. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">The CDC says your second dose may be given up to six weeks (42 days) after the first dose\u003c/a>, if necessary — but that you shouldn’t get the second dose \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">earlier \u003c/i>than the recommended interval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">getting\u003c/i> your second shot? If you weren’t invited to schedule your second shot when you scheduled your first one, make sure you find out at your first appointment how you should schedule that second dose. Some sites will give you the sign-up information on the spot, and others will follow up with you afterward (for example, by email) to arrange your second dose. Try not to leave your first appointment without getting that information. If you’re unsure how to schedule your second dose after you leave, contact the site or organization who gave you your first dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">You are \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">not\u003c/i> immediately protected from the coronavirus after your first vaccination shot\u003c/a>. It takes your body time to build up the necessary antibodies that offer protection against getting sick from COVID-19. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">The CDC says that you’ll be considered “fully protected”\u003c/a> two weeks after your second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1972824/covid-19-vaccine-your-questions-answered#question11\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Read more about your immunity after getting the vaccine, \u003c/a>and find out more about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864473\">what you can (and can’t) do after you’re fully vaccinated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"volunteer\">\u003c/a>Can I Volunteer to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11863744\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11863744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/022821_UFWvaccine_AI_03-e1615233334285.jpg\" alt=\"farmworker gets vaccine shot\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauricio Chavez of Hollister gets a COVID-19 vaccine at Monterey Mushrooms in Morgan Hill on Feb. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Ana Ibarra/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> has a volunteer sign-up portal called \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">My Turn Volunteer, \u003c/a>where you can \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">sign up\u003c/a> for medical and non-medical “general support” shifts at California vaccination sites throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/volunteer-California-vaccine-MyTurnVolunteer-16009060.php\">As reported by SFGate\u003c/a>, working four hours or more as a volunteer through My Turn Volunteer will make you eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine with approval from the clinic administrator. Visit the \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">My Turn Volunteer site \u003c/a>for more information, and visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859540/covid-19-vaccines-how-to-volunteer-to-help-distribution\">our vaccine volunteering guide\u003c/a> for more potential volunteer opportunities, both in-person and remote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11859558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Image-from-iOS-25-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose resident Cornelia Arzaga, 76, prepares to receive her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Levi’s Stadium on Feb. 9, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"codes\">\u003c/a>What Are Vaccine Access Codes?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853870\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11853870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/ap_20365852620782-8aa52cd82f660661d05766e5d9a4cf76084e738a-scaled-e1609950454499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By the end of the day, more people received an injection on Monday than have been vaccinated since the start of the vaccine program on Dec. 18, Judson Howe, president of Adventist Health said. \u003ccite>(Elise Amendola/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been given a special code through a local community organization for scheduling a COVID-19 vaccination, be sure to input it in the “Access Code” (formerly “Accessibility Code”) section on \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#passports\">What will COVID-19 vaccine passports look like?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#travel\">Could I need a COVID-19 vaccine passport to travel?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ethics\">The ethics and privacy concerns around vaccine passports\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As more people receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, excitement is growing for the return to activities such as attending sporting events, watching a movie in a theater, dining in at restaurants and even getting on a plane for that long-delayed trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867775/fully-vaccinated-you-can-travel-again-says-new-cdc-covid-19-guidance\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its travel guidelines to allow for fully vaccinated individuals to travel within the U.S.\u003c/a> without getting tested for the coronavirus and without needing to quarantine afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet there’s still the question of how people can return to all these activities safely and without posing a risk to vulnerable populations. There’s one idea that's gaining traction, especially in the travel industry — vaccine passports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, these are official documents that prove a person has been fully vaccinated, and therefore poses less of a risk to others. And vaccine passports are not just being discussed within the travel industry, but also for many types of businesses where people gather. You might have seen them in the news most recently for the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/06/texas-greg-abbott-covid-vaccine-passport/\">Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a ban on vaccine passports\u003c/a> in the state, followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/florida-covid-vaccine-passport-ban/index.html\">a similar ban from Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what is a vaccine passport? What would it look like, and where might you need it? Would you need a vaccine passport to travel? How might vaccine passports interact with privacy considerations, like HIPAA — the federal law that restricts the release of medical information — and what ethical questions could they raise in how they'll potentially affect marginalized communities?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Forum talked with the following experts about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882719/benefits-and-pitfalls-of-vaccine-passports\">the pros and cons of vaccine passports\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Monica Gandhi\u003c/strong>, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>David Studdert\u003c/strong>, professor of medicine and law, Stanford University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Catharine Hamm\u003c/strong>, former travel editor at the Los Angeles Times\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Alexis Hancock\u003c/strong>, staff technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"passports\">\u003c/a>What Is a Vaccine Passport?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The term “vaccine passports” is currently used very loosely — and it’s unclear what they would actually look like in the U.S., said David Studdert, professor of medicine and law at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really a form of certification that says the bearer of this thing has completed vaccinations,” Studdert said. He added that passports will likely be in electronic form: “Like a QR code on your phone. But it could be in paper form, too.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=\"news_11855623\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is this would be something that you carry \u003cem>with\u003c/em> you, and it would certify your ability to participate in certain kinds of activities. The big question is: which activities? And who is going to be demanding it?\" Studdert asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critical element of a vaccine passport is that it would need to be standardized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The move towards a passport or some more formal certification would essentially elevate this to the status of a formal document,” Studdert said. “But gathering all that information from all the vaccination sites around the country, from the counties and from the states, and ensuring that the right people are given the right authorization is a gigantic undertaking, and one that I think the government will need to guide very carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Do Vaccine Passports Exist Already?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, broad vaccine passports \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> exist in the U.S. And with just 17.5% of the U.S. population now fully vaccinated, according to the CDC, this talk around vaccine passports might be premature, said Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people desperate to get the vaccine who have not been able to get the vaccine yet, we're sort of in this transition period in terms of availability,” Gandhi said. “Right now, we're already having a kind of two-tiered system where those who are vaccinated feel more safe and those who aren't, don't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, early iterations of a vaccine passport \u003cem>are\u003c/em> already being seen around the world. \u003ca href=\"https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/excelsior-pass\">New York just launched the Excelsior Pass\u003c/a>, which proves an individual has been vaccinated or recently tested negative for the virus. The pass will initially be accepted at Madison Square Garden and will eventually be used at various venues statewide.[aside postID=\"science_1972824\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Countries in the European Union are developing a passport that would allow for more travel for its citizens who have been vaccinated or tested negative for the virus. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/28/green-pass-how-are-vaccine-passports-working-in-israel\">Israel’s green passports\u003c/a> allow holders, who have been vaccinated or recovered from the coronavirus, to participate in entertainment and social gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airlines industry is testing a tool called the IATA Travel Pass, which verifies if a traveler meets all COVID regulations during a trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporate travel management platform TripActions has also built an app where users can upload necessary documentation for domestic and international travel, that can essentially be used a health passport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11829701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The airline industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic \u003ccite>(Sourav Mishra/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"travel\">\u003c/a>Will I \u003cem>Need\u003c/em> a Vaccine Passport to Travel?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Travel, schools and health care are among the handful of areas where vaccines have been required, historically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccine passports are widely being discussed in the context of the travel industry. Studdert said many countries including the U.K., Australia and those in the EU are developing the passport idea around travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Hamm, former travel editor with the Los Angeles Times, said it’s still unclear whether vaccine passports would replace rules and restrictions that are currently in place for travel.[aside postID=\"news_11867775\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that if passports become common, and given the number that are under development, that seems likely, I think that those will be in addition to the rules,” said Hamm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said whether not being vaccinated will prevent people from engaging in activities they’re not supposed to remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing apparently in the pandemic that is certain is that there is uncertainty and confusion about what we can and cannot do, particularly as it relates to travel,” Hamm said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What Activities Could I Need a Vaccine Passport For?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Businesses outside of travel are also considering how useful vaccine passports might be. And Studdert said he suspects that we'll see the vaccine passport technology and protocol coming out of the travel sector subsequently spreading to other areas of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studdert notes, however, that there's a difference between requiring a vaccine passport for essential activities and requiring one for non-essential activities. And he doubts that the United States will see any regulation at the state or federal level around vaccine passports for \u003cem>essential\u003c/em> activities, given the \"legal questions and ethical questions there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to non-essential activities, like \"going to the theater, or to a sporting event or to a restaurant in a bar,\" Studdert thinks the case for businesses and premises being allowed to require vaccine passports is \"a harder case to oppose.” \"\u003cb>\u003c/b>I think that we allow that kind of thing for lots of activities in our society,\" Studdert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever businesses decide, Studdert said it’s important for the government to regulate the practice and ensure that certain groups are not being discriminated against, by a place using vaccine passports as \"a pretext for excluding certain groups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman receives a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic hosted by Providence St. Mary Medical Center on March 30, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ethics\">\u003c/a>What Are Other Ethical Issues Around Vaccine Passports?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/23/914427907/as-pandemic-deaths-add-up-racial-disparities-persist-and-in-some-cases-worsen\">The pandemic has impacted poor, Black and brown communities disproportionately\u003c/a> in every aspect. Not only do these communities have less access to COVID-19 testing, but workers in those communities are usually the ones doing frontline essential work, and are therefore more at-risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BIPOC communities also have less access to vaccines. And vaccine passports will further exacerbate those inequities, said Alexis Hancock, staff technologist with Electronic Frontier Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've seen disparity between people who have gotten COVID and died from it, we've seen disparities with people with testing, and now we're seeing disparities with vaccines. They're not widely available yet,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone has a smartphone. And we've already seen people not being able to actually access vaccine appointments, because of technology barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What About Privacy and Vaccine Passports?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hancock said vaccine passports also bring up questions around data collection depending on who issues them — whether it’s the government or a third-party company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Digital vaccine passports build an infrastructure and culture of mass surveillance,\" Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes that while there's absolutely precedent for requiring proof of vaccinations for certain diseases for international travel, or for having your medical information stored by your school or place of work, by contrast we're now seeing a \"scope creep\" around this data: \"beyond international travel, beyond workplaces and schools, and it's going to restaurants, talking about getting services and libraries and access to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, Hancock said it’s important to think about how data will be stored and what happens to that information long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could step outside of HIPAA regulations. It won’t necessarily be the medical record that you have to keep confidential between you and your health care provider, and you decide to share the information upon your own volition,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very variable privacy laws when it comes to our data. Some people out there may be saying, ‘Well, it's just showing that I'm vaccinated. What's the big deal?’ It’s the fact that you're sharing medical data \u003cem>outside\u003c/em> the context of the normal protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#passports\">What will COVID-19 vaccine passports look like?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#travel\">Could I need a COVID-19 vaccine passport to travel?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ethics\">The ethics and privacy concerns around vaccine passports\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As more people receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, excitement is growing for the return to activities such as attending sporting events, watching a movie in a theater, dining in at restaurants and even getting on a plane for that long-delayed trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 2, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867775/fully-vaccinated-you-can-travel-again-says-new-cdc-covid-19-guidance\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its travel guidelines to allow for fully vaccinated individuals to travel within the U.S.\u003c/a> without getting tested for the coronavirus and without needing to quarantine afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet there’s still the question of how people can return to all these activities safely and without posing a risk to vulnerable populations. There’s one idea that's gaining traction, especially in the travel industry — vaccine passports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, these are official documents that prove a person has been fully vaccinated, and therefore poses less of a risk to others. And vaccine passports are not just being discussed within the travel industry, but also for many types of businesses where people gather. You might have seen them in the news most recently for the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/06/texas-greg-abbott-covid-vaccine-passport/\">Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a ban on vaccine passports\u003c/a> in the state, followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/florida-covid-vaccine-passport-ban/index.html\">a similar ban from Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what is a vaccine passport? What would it look like, and where might you need it? Would you need a vaccine passport to travel? How might vaccine passports interact with privacy considerations, like HIPAA — the federal law that restricts the release of medical information — and what ethical questions could they raise in how they'll potentially affect marginalized communities?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Forum talked with the following experts about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882719/benefits-and-pitfalls-of-vaccine-passports\">the pros and cons of vaccine passports\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Monica Gandhi\u003c/strong>, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>David Studdert\u003c/strong>, professor of medicine and law, Stanford University\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Catharine Hamm\u003c/strong>, former travel editor at the Los Angeles Times\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Alexis Hancock\u003c/strong>, staff technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"passports\">\u003c/a>What Is a Vaccine Passport?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The term “vaccine passports” is currently used very loosely — and it’s unclear what they would actually look like in the U.S., said David Studdert, professor of medicine and law at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really a form of certification that says the bearer of this thing has completed vaccinations,” Studdert said. He added that passports will likely be in electronic form: “Like a QR code on your phone. But it could be in paper form, too.\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is this would be something that you carry \u003cem>with\u003c/em> you, and it would certify your ability to participate in certain kinds of activities. The big question is: which activities? And who is going to be demanding it?\" Studdert asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critical element of a vaccine passport is that it would need to be standardized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The move towards a passport or some more formal certification would essentially elevate this to the status of a formal document,” Studdert said. “But gathering all that information from all the vaccination sites around the country, from the counties and from the states, and ensuring that the right people are given the right authorization is a gigantic undertaking, and one that I think the government will need to guide very carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Do Vaccine Passports Exist Already?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Currently, broad vaccine passports \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> exist in the U.S. And with just 17.5% of the U.S. population now fully vaccinated, according to the CDC, this talk around vaccine passports might be premature, said Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people desperate to get the vaccine who have not been able to get the vaccine yet, we're sort of in this transition period in terms of availability,” Gandhi said. “Right now, we're already having a kind of two-tiered system where those who are vaccinated feel more safe and those who aren't, don't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, early iterations of a vaccine passport \u003cem>are\u003c/em> already being seen around the world. \u003ca href=\"https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/excelsior-pass\">New York just launched the Excelsior Pass\u003c/a>, which proves an individual has been vaccinated or recently tested negative for the virus. The pass will initially be accepted at Madison Square Garden and will eventually be used at various venues statewide.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Countries in the European Union are developing a passport that would allow for more travel for its citizens who have been vaccinated or tested negative for the virus. Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/28/green-pass-how-are-vaccine-passports-working-in-israel\">Israel’s green passports\u003c/a> allow holders, who have been vaccinated or recovered from the coronavirus, to participate in entertainment and social gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airlines industry is testing a tool called the IATA Travel Pass, which verifies if a traveler meets all COVID regulations during a trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corporate travel management platform TripActions has also built an app where users can upload necessary documentation for domestic and international travel, that can essentially be used a health passport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11829701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/air-travel-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The airline industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic \u003ccite>(Sourav Mishra/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"travel\">\u003c/a>Will I \u003cem>Need\u003c/em> a Vaccine Passport to Travel?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Travel, schools and health care are among the handful of areas where vaccines have been required, historically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccine passports are widely being discussed in the context of the travel industry. Studdert said many countries including the U.K., Australia and those in the EU are developing the passport idea around travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Hamm, former travel editor with the Los Angeles Times, said it’s still unclear whether vaccine passports would replace rules and restrictions that are currently in place for travel.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that if passports become common, and given the number that are under development, that seems likely, I think that those will be in addition to the rules,” said Hamm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said whether not being vaccinated will prevent people from engaging in activities they’re not supposed to remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing apparently in the pandemic that is certain is that there is uncertainty and confusion about what we can and cannot do, particularly as it relates to travel,” Hamm said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What Activities Could I Need a Vaccine Passport For?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Businesses outside of travel are also considering how useful vaccine passports might be. And Studdert said he suspects that we'll see the vaccine passport technology and protocol coming out of the travel sector subsequently spreading to other areas of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studdert notes, however, that there's a difference between requiring a vaccine passport for essential activities and requiring one for non-essential activities. And he doubts that the United States will see any regulation at the state or federal level around vaccine passports for \u003cem>essential\u003c/em> activities, given the \"legal questions and ethical questions there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to non-essential activities, like \"going to the theater, or to a sporting event or to a restaurant in a bar,\" Studdert thinks the case for businesses and premises being allowed to require vaccine passports is \"a harder case to oppose.” \"\u003cb>\u003c/b>I think that we allow that kind of thing for lots of activities in our society,\" Studdert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever businesses decide, Studdert said it’s important for the government to regulate the practice and ensure that certain groups are not being discriminated against, by a place using vaccine passports as \"a pretext for excluding certain groups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867483\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11867483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/COVID-vaccine-1536x1035.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman receives a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic hosted by Providence St. Mary Medical Center on March 30, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ethics\">\u003c/a>What Are Other Ethical Issues Around Vaccine Passports?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/23/914427907/as-pandemic-deaths-add-up-racial-disparities-persist-and-in-some-cases-worsen\">The pandemic has impacted poor, Black and brown communities disproportionately\u003c/a> in every aspect. Not only do these communities have less access to COVID-19 testing, but workers in those communities are usually the ones doing frontline essential work, and are therefore more at-risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BIPOC communities also have less access to vaccines. And vaccine passports will further exacerbate those inequities, said Alexis Hancock, staff technologist with Electronic Frontier Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've seen disparity between people who have gotten COVID and died from it, we've seen disparities with people with testing, and now we're seeing disparities with vaccines. They're not widely available yet,” Hancock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everyone has a smartphone. And we've already seen people not being able to actually access vaccine appointments, because of technology barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Related: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">Where Can I Get a COVID-19 Vaccine Near Me? Your Questions Answered\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Californians ages 50 and older are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. And they have two weeks to book appointments before the state opens up fuller eligibility to \u003cem>all\u003c/em> people ages 16 and older, starting on April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">booking a COVID-19 vaccine appointment near you\u003c/a> is easier said than done. Many people have already been struggling to find available slots, coming up against a lack of appointments and an often-confusing variety of online systems and sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this episode of The Bay, we’ll give you some strategies for finding an appointment when you’re eligible. Continue reading for the April 15 vaccine appointment checklist…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TeacupInTheBay\">Carly Severn\u003c/a>, KQED Senior Engagement Editor\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Waiting for April 15 to Get Your Vaccine? Here’s What to Do\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be Proactive and Stay Vigilant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can you pre-schedule your appointment before April 15? The answer is: \u003cem>Maybe\u003c/em>, because it depends on the provider you’re making your appointment through. The California Department of Public Health said that people ages 50 and older wouldn’t be able to pre-schedule their appointments on My Turn ahead of their eligibility date of April 1 — but then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11867423/congratulations-you-are-eligible-californians-50-are-already-eligible-to-sign-up-for-vaccines\">My Turn opened up 50+ eligibility on March 31 anyway\u003c/a>. So stay vigilant, and familiarize yourself with the process before “opening day.” Your county might open up before you expect them to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Sure You Aren’t \u003cem>Already\u003c/em> Eligible (Because of Where You Live or Work)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your county or region may also have opened up 16+ eligibility early. For example, Contra Costa County opened up vaccine eligibility early, on March 30, to all people ages 16+ who live or work in the county. Alameda County, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Solano have all now done the same, and opened vaccinations to everyone ages 16+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More widely, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UCDavisHealth/status/1379244099337908227\">UC Davis Health has also opened up vaccine appointments\u003c/a> to “anyone aged 16+”, saying that the health center has “enough vaccine supply and appointments to expand eligibility before the state’s expansion on April 15.” There’s no residency requirement, but appointments are already scarce because of demand. \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine/my-turn/patient-login.html\">Make an appointment as a current UC Davis Health patient\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://vaccinescheduling.ucdavis.edu/MyChart/covid19/#/\">make an appointment as a non-UC Davis Health patient\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11866647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-800x439.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-2048x1124.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1920x1054.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana prepares the single-dose Johnson&Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine \u003ccite>(Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Familiarize Yourself With the Systems\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth familiarizing yourself in advance with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#where\">the various systems of vaccine scheduling online\u003c/a>, so that you’re ready when your own eligibility \u003cem>does\u003c/em> come around. Get familiar with My Turn and your own county’s systems, and find out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#where\">which pharmacies near you might be offering the vaccine\u003c/a> when your time comes. Remember, starting April 15 you’ll be one of \u003cem>many\u003c/em> people out there trying to find an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on that note…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have Your Insurance Card Ready\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many appointment systems will ask you to upload details of your health insurance, if you have it. Often you’ll be asked to upload photos of the front and the back of your health insurance card, so it’s a good idea to a) know where your card is and b) even have the photos ready and waiting on your phone and on your computer, so you have them if you need them quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don’t have health insurance, don’t worry: Your vaccine will still be free, and you can’t be denied your vaccine because you don’t have insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sign Up for Notifications \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you’re not eligible to get vaccinated right now — or you’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/science/1973382/californians-expanding-vaccine-to-ages-50-and-up-with-universal-eligibility-to-follow\">waiting on universal eligibility to open up starting April 15 \u003c/a>— you can sign up for the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn notification tool\u003c/a>, which promises to let you know if it’s your turn to get vaccinated and schedule vaccination appointments via email or text notifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#county\">sign up for your county’s notification system\u003c/a> if they have one. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#county\">Check your county\u003c/a>. (One note for Alameda County residents: Consider also signing up for the city of Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CABERKE/signup/22371\">vaccine interest list, \u003c/a>as their \u003ca href=\"https://curative.com/sites/25054#9/37.8675/-122.2969\">Albany vaccination site run in partnership with Curative\u003c/a> is often open to Alameda County residents generally, not just Berkeley residents.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Sure You Aren’t \u003cem>Already\u003c/em> Eligible (Because of Your Health)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People with certain health conditions and disabilities that put them at “the very highest risk” from the coronavirus according to the state became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine back on March 15. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine-high-risk-factsheet.aspx\">See the state’s list of eligible disabilities and conditions.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re not eligible according to the state’s list, you might be according to San Francisco’s own list, which \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-expand-covid-19-vaccinations-people-disabilities-and-severe-underlying\">broadened its definitions of qualifying disabilities and health conditions beyond the state’s\u003c/a> to include \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/other-conditions-eligible-covid-19-vaccine-sf\">\u003cem>more\u003c/em> conditions and disabilities\u003c/a>. And you don’t have to live in San Francisco to be vaccinated in the city if you meet its health requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente, which is offering the COVID-19 vaccine to its members, has also expanded upon the state of California’s high-risk criteria to include \u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/covid-19/vaccine-availability-eligibility\">more health conditions and disabilities \u003c/a>than are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine-high-risk-factsheet.aspx\">listed by the state\u003c/a> — and they’re also wider than \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/other-conditions-eligible-covid-19-vaccine-sf\">San Francisco’s health criteria\u003c/a>. Find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#health\">more information about getting vaccinated this way through Kaiser Permanente\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visit KQED’s vaccine guide: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>English\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>en \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856006/cuando-y-donde-puede-vacunarse-contra-covid-19-en-el-area-de-la-bahia-aqui-tiene-las-respuestas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>español\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Episode transcript \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3md4t2b\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"description": "Related: Where Can I Get a COVID-19 Vaccine Near Me? Your Questions Answered Californians ages 50 and older are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. And they have two weeks to book appointments before the state opens up fuller eligibility to all people ages 16 and older, starting on April 15. But booking a COVID-19 vaccine appointment near you is easier said than done. Many people have already been struggling to find available slots, coming up against a lack of appointments and an often-confusing variety of online systems and sites. On this episode of The Bay, we’ll give you some",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Related: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">Where Can I Get a COVID-19 Vaccine Near Me? Your Questions Answered\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Californians ages 50 and older are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. And they have two weeks to book appointments before the state opens up fuller eligibility to \u003cem>all\u003c/em> people ages 16 and older, starting on April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">booking a COVID-19 vaccine appointment near you\u003c/a> is easier said than done. Many people have already been struggling to find available slots, coming up against a lack of appointments and an often-confusing variety of online systems and sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this episode of The Bay, we’ll give you some strategies for finding an appointment when you’re eligible. Continue reading for the April 15 vaccine appointment checklist…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TeacupInTheBay\">Carly Severn\u003c/a>, KQED Senior Engagement Editor\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Waiting for April 15 to Get Your Vaccine? Here’s What to Do\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be Proactive and Stay Vigilant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can you pre-schedule your appointment before April 15? The answer is: \u003cem>Maybe\u003c/em>, because it depends on the provider you’re making your appointment through. The California Department of Public Health said that people ages 50 and older wouldn’t be able to pre-schedule their appointments on My Turn ahead of their eligibility date of April 1 — but then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11867423/congratulations-you-are-eligible-californians-50-are-already-eligible-to-sign-up-for-vaccines\">My Turn opened up 50+ eligibility on March 31 anyway\u003c/a>. So stay vigilant, and familiarize yourself with the process before “opening day.” Your county might open up before you expect them to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Sure You Aren’t \u003cem>Already\u003c/em> Eligible (Because of Where You Live or Work)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your county or region may also have opened up 16+ eligibility early. For example, Contra Costa County opened up vaccine eligibility early, on March 30, to all people ages 16+ who live or work in the county. Alameda County, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Solano have all now done the same, and opened vaccinations to everyone ages 16+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More widely, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UCDavisHealth/status/1379244099337908227\">UC Davis Health has also opened up vaccine appointments\u003c/a> to “anyone aged 16+”, saying that the health center has “enough vaccine supply and appointments to expand eligibility before the state’s expansion on April 15.” There’s no residency requirement, but appointments are already scarce because of demand. \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine/my-turn/patient-login.html\">Make an appointment as a current UC Davis Health patient\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://vaccinescheduling.ucdavis.edu/MyChart/covid19/#/\">make an appointment as a non-UC Davis Health patient\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11866647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-800x439.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1020x560.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-160x88.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1536x843.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-2048x1124.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231929310-1920x1054.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana prepares the single-dose Johnson&Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine \u003ccite>(Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Familiarize Yourself With the Systems\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth familiarizing yourself in advance with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#where\">the various systems of vaccine scheduling online\u003c/a>, so that you’re ready when your own eligibility \u003cem>does\u003c/em> come around. Get familiar with My Turn and your own county’s systems, and find out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#where\">which pharmacies near you might be offering the vaccine\u003c/a> when your time comes. Remember, starting April 15 you’ll be one of \u003cem>many\u003c/em> people out there trying to find an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on that note…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have Your Insurance Card Ready\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many appointment systems will ask you to upload details of your health insurance, if you have it. 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(One note for Alameda County residents: Consider also signing up for the city of Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CABERKE/signup/22371\">vaccine interest list, \u003c/a>as their \u003ca href=\"https://curative.com/sites/25054#9/37.8675/-122.2969\">Albany vaccination site run in partnership with Curative\u003c/a> is often open to Alameda County residents generally, not just Berkeley residents.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make Sure You Aren’t \u003cem>Already\u003c/em> Eligible (Because of Your Health)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People with certain health conditions and disabilities that put them at “the very highest risk” from the coronavirus according to the state became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine back on March 15. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine-high-risk-factsheet.aspx\">See the state’s list of eligible disabilities and conditions.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re not eligible according to the state’s list, you might be according to San Francisco’s own list, which \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-expand-covid-19-vaccinations-people-disabilities-and-severe-underlying\">broadened its definitions of qualifying disabilities and health conditions beyond the state’s\u003c/a> to include \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/other-conditions-eligible-covid-19-vaccine-sf\">\u003cem>more\u003c/em> conditions and disabilities\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#automatic\">The federal benefits you may receive automatically\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#applying\">What to know about reapplying for benefits\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#noui\">Options for people not on regular unemployment\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#reopening\">Reopening a claim vs. filing a new one\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>We’re over a year into \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/Newsroom/facts-and-stats/dashboard.htm#TotalUnemploymentClaims\">a deadly pandemic that has cost hundreds of thousands of Californians their jobs\u003c/a>, and caused claims for unemployment benefits to soar into the millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden signed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/\">American Rescue Plan\u003c/a> into law in March 2021 to get more direct relief to people hit hardest by the pandemic and to help the economy. 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And how can you make sure you’re getting the support you’re entitled to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent change: EDD has announced that starting June 5, some applicants who have passed the one-year mark on their claim who previously needed to refile now may no longer have to. \u003ca href=\"#applying\">Read more about this change.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please note that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866438/after-a-string-of-bungled-tech-upgrades-california-tries-a-new-approach\">the EDD website has regularly been prone to glitches\u003c/a> for people trying to certify their claims for several months now. In addition, wait times for EDD’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.id.me/\">ID.me\u003c/a> identity verification platform can still be considerable. What’s more, the backlog of unemployment claims waiting on action from EDD continues to grow. These issues can mean that even if you do everything right, it still might be hard work to get your benefits.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11870566\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll find \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/contact_edd.htm#:~:text=English%3A%201%2D800%2D480,480%2D3287)%20to%20the%20operator\">phone numbers to speak to EDD representatives here on their site.\u003c/a> But if you’re really struggling, you may find that contacting your legislator or a workers’ advocate group like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rightscenter.org/\">Center for Workers’ Rights\u003c/a> could be a better bet than trying to call EDD customer service and waiting on the phone. We also have a list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860924/how-barriers-at-edd-keep-already-vulnerable-californians-from-their-benefits#resources\">multilingual resources for unemployment claimants.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/benefit-flowchart.pdf\">Consult EDD’s California Unemployment Benefits Flowchart to See Your Eligibility\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>What Unemployment Benefits Are You Entitled to?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/unemployment/\">Unemployment Insurance\u003c/a>, or “Regular UI”:\u003c/strong> The state program that supports Californians with W-2 income who are fully or partially unemployed because of no fault of their own (including COVID-19, school closures or an expired unemployment claim).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/pandemic-unemployment-assistance.htm\">Pandemic Unemployment Assistance\u003c/a>, or PUA:\u003c/strong> The federal program that supports business owners, independent contractors and self-employed workers. (If you only got a 1099 tax form, this is likely the program you’re on).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/cares-act.htm#PEUC\">Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation,\u003c/a> or PEUC:\u003c/strong> The federal program for people who were on regular unemployment but exhausted those funds. You can be put on PEUC more than once — but to qualify for a PEUC extension, your regular UI claim must have started on July 8, 2018 or after. Depending on when you filed your unemployment claim and if it has expired, you may need to reapply for unemployment.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11862122\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/fed-ed.htm\">Federal-State Extended Duration\u003c/a>, or FED-ED:\u003c/strong> The federal program for people who’ve exhausted both regular UI and PEUC funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden’s American Rescue Plan does the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Continues the federal increase for all unemployment benefits, which adds $300 to each week of benefits through Sept. 4, 2021.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Extends Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) up to 29 weeks, through Sept. 4, 2021.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Continues the federally funded FED-ED through Sept. 11, 2021, providing up to 20 weeks of benefits.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"automatic\">\u003c/a>Will I Get Any Federal Benefits Automatically?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You might. For all applicants, for weeks of unemployment between Dec. 27, 2020 and Sept. 4, 2021, EDD will add $300 of federal Pandemic Additional Compensation (PAC) to benefit weeks, on top of the other benefits you certify for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This money should come through automatically; applicants shouldn’t need to make any adjustments on their claims to get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"applying\">\u003c/a>How Do I Know If I Need to Reapply For Benefits?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019/benefit-year-end.htm\">Your benefits year ends 12 months after you first filed your claim. \u003c/a>Refiling usually means EDD can assess whether you are eligible for a new UI claim and, if you aren’t, decide which program makes most sense for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting June 5, some applicants who have passed the one-year mark on their claim who previously needed to refile now may no longer have to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CA_EDD/status/1398763594788085760\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t made enough money in the last 18 months to warrant filing a new claim, \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/news-21-34.pdf\">EDD now says it will process benefits, add a federal extension to an expired claim or continue an existing extension\u003c/a>. This system will apply to regular UI, federal extensions and PUA applications.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11866438\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD says this update to the reapplication process is in the name of “streamlining.” But Daniela Urban, executive director of the Center for Workers’ Rights, said she and other advocates are perplexed by this latest change, especially given that EDD had so recently released a video tutorial on how to reapply for unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban also warned unemployed Californians to be prepared for more updates from EDD in the wake of this transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How Do I Know If I’m Eligible for a New Claim?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to Urban, in order to qualify for a new claim you have to have earned at least $1,300 in your \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/pdf_pub_ctr/de8714ab.pdf\">base period\u003c/a> and made at least $1,250 since your last unemployment application. This figure, says Urban, represents “what’s considered ‘reattaching to the workforce.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have earned enough in the last 18 months to warrant a new claim, you do need to refile, even if you are on an extension. Once you do, EDD says it will establish a new regular UI claim or a federal extension for you. EDD says you will be notified by email, text and on UI Online if you need to reapply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To figure out if you’ve made enough money that you’ll be required to reapply, log into UI Online and try to file a new claim. According to EDD, the new application process will only go forward if you need to refile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t worked at all throughout the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/benefit-flowchart.pdf\">EDD should automatically file a PEUC extension on your prior UI claim\u003c/a>, and you should be notified the agency has done this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though EDD suspended its work search requirement in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, from July 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11878764/new-edd-requirement-may-clog-unemployment-claims-process-even-further-advocates-worry\">most unemployed Californians will need to show they are actively looking for work\u003c/a> to stay eligible for benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CA_EDD/status/1407112356421947401\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means applicants will need to answer “Yes” on the \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/Unemployment/Understanding_the_Continued_Claim_Certification_Questions.htm\">bi-weekly certification question\u003c/a> asking if they are looking for work. As one Twitter user succinctly put it, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HetJayfield/status/1405649751022870533\">“Just put ‘yes’ for number three and that’s it.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD spokesperson Loree Levy confirmed that applicants should start looking for work no later than July 11, and be prepared to declare that they are looking for work on their certification form starting July 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EmEffHarvin/status/1408506689125425154\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What qualifies as “searching for work” will vary for those on regular unemployment or extensions versus those on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA.) That’s because PUA applicants are often self-employed and contract workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD says it will be sending notices to inform applicants what this reinstatement means for them, but \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/unemployment/return-to-work.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://edd.ca.gov/unemployment/return-to-work.htm\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">a brief rundown can also be found on the agency’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"noui\">\u003c/a>I’m Not on Regular UI. What Federal Support Does My Program Qualify Me for, and What Do I Need to Do to Get It?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Existing and Exhausted PUA Claims \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If you still had a balance remaining on your PUA claim on March 14, EDD says you should continue to get benefits without delays. EDD says around 95% of PUA recipients should be able to keep certifying without a break.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On a media call on March 26, EDD said everyone on existing PUA claims should have been able to start certifying for these benefits on Sunday, March 28.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For the around 5% of PUA recipients who exhausted all PUA benefits, EDD says you should be getting texts, UI Online notifications or mailed notices by April 10, 2021 — if not sooner — about when to certify for other benefits.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11860924\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Existing and Exhausted PEUC claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Still had a balance remaining on your PEUC claim on March 14? EDD says you should also continue to get benefits without delays. Around half of people with existing PEUC claims should be able to keep certifying without a break, says EDD.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For the other half of applicants who’ve exhausted all PEUC extensions, you could be eligible for another 20 weeks of benefits under FED-ED Extension. If you are, EDD will automatically file a FED-ED extension on your claim. EDD says it will phase in these benefits between April 10 and April 30, and will notify you in your UI online account when it does. Not everyone is eligible, though, so take a look at \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/benefit-flowchart.pdf\">EDD’s Unemployment Benefit Programs flowchart\u003c/a> to work out if you are.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Regular UI and Existing FED-ED claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If you have \u003cem>not\u003c/em> reached the end of your benefits year, you should continue to be able to continue to certify, in addition to receiving the $300 federal PAC bump without interruption.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. New PUA Claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Need to file a new PUA claim? You should be able to do so, but you will currently only be paid at the minimum level of $167 per week, plus the extra $300 federal payment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>By April 10, applicants may become eligible for a higher weekly benefit amount based on income information reported on their application, and any shift in benefit amount will be applied retroactively.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>How Many Weeks Will These New Benefits Carry Me Over for?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>EDD has a breakdown of how long these federal benefits will extend your support for, and how many weeks of benefits you can ultimately receive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/unemployment-benefits-chart.pdf\">See the breakdown of benefit lengths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"reopening\">\u003c/a>Reopening a Claim vs. Filing a New One\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to Daniela Urban, applicants should be on the lookout on their own for the ability to file a new claim, even if their old claim is allowing them to recertify. Some peoples’ accounts just say pending for a long time, when really, it’s time for \u003cem>them\u003c/em> to refile. Even though that option may have already popped up on their account, they may be overlooking it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The option to “Reopen Claim” online is supposed to appear if it’s been more than 30 days since you last certified for benefits. If your benefit year hasn’t expired, EDD will put your account into a semi-dormant mode, instead of closing out your account. (Think of it like your computer going into sleep mode, instead of shutting down.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CA_EDD/status/1366909465040220160\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, there \u003cem>have\u003c/em> been glitches in the past and people have gotten this notification when they shouldn’t have. So if you get this “Reopen Claim” notice, but you have been certifying regularly, don’t click on that option until you’ve gotten more information about why you’re getting this notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CA_EDD/status/1350208664699891715\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> actually need to reopen your claim, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XbPUBshbyI\">EDD has a step-by-step video guide\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XbPUBshbyI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>What qualifies as “searching for work” will vary for those on regular unemployment or extensions versus those on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA.) That’s because PUA applicants are often self-employed and contract workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EDD says it will be sending notices to inform applicants what this reinstatement means for them, but \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/unemployment/return-to-work.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://edd.ca.gov/unemployment/return-to-work.htm\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">a brief rundown can also be found on the agency’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"noui\">\u003c/a>I’m Not on Regular UI. What Federal Support Does My Program Qualify Me for, and What Do I Need to Do to Get It?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Existing and Exhausted PUA Claims \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If you still had a balance remaining on your PUA claim on March 14, EDD says you should continue to get benefits without delays. EDD says around 95% of PUA recipients should be able to keep certifying without a break.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On a media call on March 26, EDD said everyone on existing PUA claims should have been able to start certifying for these benefits on Sunday, March 28.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For the around 5% of PUA recipients who exhausted all PUA benefits, EDD says you should be getting texts, UI Online notifications or mailed notices by April 10, 2021 — if not sooner — about when to certify for other benefits.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Existing and Exhausted PEUC claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Still had a balance remaining on your PEUC claim on March 14? EDD says you should also continue to get benefits without delays. Around half of people with existing PEUC claims should be able to keep certifying without a break, says EDD.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For the other half of applicants who’ve exhausted all PEUC extensions, you could be eligible for another 20 weeks of benefits under FED-ED Extension. If you are, EDD will automatically file a FED-ED extension on your claim. EDD says it will phase in these benefits between April 10 and April 30, and will notify you in your UI online account when it does. Not everyone is eligible, though, so take a look at \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/benefit-flowchart.pdf\">EDD’s Unemployment Benefit Programs flowchart\u003c/a> to work out if you are.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Regular UI and Existing FED-ED claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If you have \u003cem>not\u003c/em> reached the end of your benefits year, you should continue to be able to continue to certify, in addition to receiving the $300 federal PAC bump without interruption.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. New PUA Claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Need to file a new PUA claim? You should be able to do so, but you will currently only be paid at the minimum level of $167 per week, plus the extra $300 federal payment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>By April 10, applicants may become eligible for a higher weekly benefit amount based on income information reported on their application, and any shift in benefit amount will be applied retroactively.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>How Many Weeks Will These New Benefits Carry Me Over for?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>EDD has a breakdown of how long these federal benefits will extend your support for, and how many weeks of benefits you can ultimately receive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/unemployment-benefits-chart.pdf\">See the breakdown of benefit lengths\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Part of our series ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/yearofcovid\">A Year of COVID\u003c/a>,’ marking a year of the coronavirus pandemic\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after the pandemic began, more than 2.6 million people globally have died from the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, COVID-19 has killed more than 530,000 people. And within California, more than 55,000 people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These vast numbers remain hard to grasp — each one representing not just a person, but also a community of grieving friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been written of both \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/01/949329416/steamrolled-us-in-every-direction-the-year-grief-hit-from-all-sides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">individual grief\u003c/a> and the ongoing feelings\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/were-not-ready-for-this-kind-of-grief/609856/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> of collective loss during this period\u003c/a>. But what should be done about the indescribable brain fog and empty-heartedness that grief leaves a person with?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the ways that you cope and grieve with horrifying losses are kind of stripped during a crisis like this,” said journalist Sam Levin on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>‘s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101881800/processing-the-grief-and-trauma-of-losing-a-loved-one-to-covid-19\">recent show dedicated to the grief and trauma\u003c/a> wrought by the COVID-19 death toll. “And it makes it just exponentially harder and really is sort of a trauma on top of trauma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin lost his grandmother, Debbie Hennessy, to COVID-19 in January, and wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/31/my-grandmas-survival-in-america-defied-all-odds-then-covid-stole-her-from-us\">moving tribute to her in The Guardian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SamTLevin/status/1351590545836003328\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For California Assemblyman James Ramos, D-Highland, who is the first Native American elected to the state Assembly, there’s a different sense of a loss when it comes to COVID-19 and elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we lose them, it’s a piece of our history and a piece of our knowledge that goes with them,” Ramos — a member of the of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribe in San Bernardino County — told KQED Forum.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"arts_13893843\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s things that aren’t written down,” Ramos said. And with each human loss, “a thread of the culture” is lost too, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those experiencing grief during the pandemic — and particularly Black and Indigenous people of color (BIPOC), \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/16/913365560/the-majority-of-children-who-die-from-covid-19-are-children-of-color\">who have been so disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus \u003c/a>— what are some concrete ways individuals can work through the enormity of losing someone to COVID-19?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with three experts who all professionally focus on end-of-life care and approach grieving from differing perspectives:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanaendoflifedoula.com/end-of-life-doula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oceana Sawyer, \u003c/a>an end-of-life doula in the Bay Area,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cardamomandkavate.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roshni Kavate, \u003c/a>healer and activist, and former palliative care nurse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sbbh.net/provider/erika-felix/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erika Felix, \u003c/a>a licensed psychologist and associate professor of clinical psychology at UC Santa Barbara\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And keep in mind when reading this: as Felix noted on KQED Forum, “grief is not a one size fits all thing.” Consider and take what works for you and leave the rest. Additional resources on processing grief \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">are listed at the bottom of this article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Choose Someone You Can \u003cem>Really\u003c/em> Talk To\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I would suggest is the person get themselves a therapist,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanaendoflifedoula.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oceana Sawyer, \u003c/a> who as an end-of-life doula provides supportive care to people during the dying process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer hosts a virtual “death cafe” for the BIPOC community, as well as events focusing on grief and the Black experience. It’s important, Sawyer stresses, that the support you seek comes with the cultural competency you need. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oceana Sawyer, death doula\"]‘You want to be able to communicate your experience to someone who can actually hear it and receive it and reflect it back to you in its entirety.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to be able to communicate your experience to someone who can actually hear it and receive it, and reflect it back to you in its entirety,” Sawyer said — emphasizing the particular importance for BIPOC folks of doing so without the “need for code switching.” Ideally, anyone who is sharing their experiences should not be “impacted by microaggressions at a moment in time where you’re at your most vulnerable,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importance of cultural competency in professional support was echoed on KQED Forum’s show by Los Angeles Times reporter Brittny Mejia, who has been personally been working through the death of her own loved ones from COVID-19 while simultaneously reporting on the pandemic in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejia said her therapist is also Mexican American, which has “been a huge help to me that she kind of understands my family dynamic.” “She gets it” Mejia said — emphasizing that “it makes a huge difference for me to have a therapist like her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this matters, Oceana Sawyer says, because the communities of color she works with have been dying from the virus at disproportionate rates. And that means their grief is also happening in “the context of medical racism, which doesn’t provide adequate care for Black and brown Indigenous bodies,” she says — and all amid the “ongoing racial oppression and white supremacy” in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it’s more complex,” Sawyer said. “All these different layers are happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-1536x1035.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resources on finding culturally competent affordable therapy can be found below. \u003ccite>(Gender Spectrum Collection/Broadly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Remember That Grief Might Not Feel (or Look) Like You Think\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Erika Felix echoes the importance of having a support system. “We all know that there’s no words that can take away such a profound loss,” she said — and still, she notes, we \u003cem>need\u003c/em> our networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s someone close to you going through grief, Felix recommends checking in, but staying adaptable on the support you offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe they want to talk that day, maybe they don’t,” Felix said. “Maybe it just feels good to have somebody remember that they’re going through this and grieving.” And just knowing that you’re “willing to walk through it with them,” she added, is important for a person’s healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the five stages of grief may be more well known — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — the fact that everyone goes through them differently can be hard to reconcile with close family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might go through phases of depression and eventually come out at the other end with acceptance and being able to hold the memories and move forward,” said Felix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people also move \u003cem>in and out\u003c/em> of each stage in many different ways, Felix said. “Depending on somebody’s culture and family, and how they process emotions, even within families, grief can look very different,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each person’s grief and each family’s grief may look different and go through many continual phases. If you’re the one experiencing grief, be aware of this and be kind to yourself. And if you’re the one offering support, know that a loved one’s grief might not take the form or process you anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Allow Your Body to Feel Your Grief \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Grief is a full-body sport,” says Roshni Kavate, who grew up in India and worked for several years as an ICU and palliative care nurse in the Bay Area. “It shows up in your body and in your heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate now focuses on reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom, often working with people who are experiencing grief by mixing art and ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate says she left nursing after 12 years because she wanted to see a greater sense of caring in the bereavement process. “I want to do it with beauty and intention; with celebrating,” she said. And creating or recreating personal rituals for your body and brain to enact can allow those experiencing grief to rethink the shattered sense of meaning in their lives and regain a sense of control, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot control grief. It dictates when it’s going to show up,” Kavate said. But with ritual, she said, “you can get curious in that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also sees it as a cyclical process. Healing is often thought of with an endpoint, but as Kavate says, you don’t need to try to get to the end — since there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> no end. “If we can really feel the depth of emotion in our body,” she notes, that will help the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oceana Sawyer also highlights how both movement and sound — known as somatic or vocal processing — can be a way of moving through grief. This can be particularly powerful for BIPOC grievers, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole thing about the full-body wailing — the singing, the moving, the dancing … It’s part of how Black bodies actually metabolize grief,” Sawyer said. “When you move your body in a certain way — that rocking, that swing, you add a hum to it — those things together actually calm the nervous system, and allow the body to process big emotional experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835632\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-1536x1035.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listen to how you speak to yourself. Are you showing the same understanding and compassion that you’d extend to a friend? \u003ccite>(Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Move Your Body \u003cem>Into\u003c/em> Nature\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paying attention to your grief through journaling or meditation has huge value, Sawyer said, “but I \u003cem>really\u003c/em> recommend that people start moving around: specifically for BIPOC folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer recommends people notice and observe their body, “meditate, move — get out in nature and just start moving, noticing how it feels in your body, where the emotions are in your body,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate agrees that nature is a wonderful remedy. This could be something as simple as taking care of a plant for a kitchen garden, taking a hike in nature, or a trip to the beach — anything you can do to tend to life, while going through loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [we] are grieving, we don’t take care of ourselves,” Kavate said. “An antidote to grief is life,” she said, and urges ways to find “a deeper kinship with living beings, and life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Consider Connecting With Family and Ancestral Forms of Healing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Delving deeper into ancestral wisdom can be useful for immigrants as well as first, second and third generation Americans, Kavate says. The question she advises asking: “What in your culture was medicine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it was food-based, this could be answered by eating your grandmother’s favorite lamb meatballs, for example, or eating a mango. Kavate encourages people to particularly look into foods that bring you comfort — which could be traditional medicinal food, like stews, beans, rice and lentils. The smell of these foods, Kavate says, can also be powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Grief is really a calling for more joy and more life,” she said — and it’s important for people to “tend” to what is calling us and our bodies. “Our bodies are deeply intelligent and they have intelligence in how to navigate grief,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Finally, Say No to Guilt\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As Felix told KQED Forum, when it comes to housing inequities and work, sometimes people — particularly BIPOC folks — are given “impossible choices on survival” in terms of navigating exposure, work and a constantly changing and mutating viruses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could do everything right, and somebody could still get it [COVID-19],” Felix said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While guilt is understandable, Felix says it’s about not letting it stop a person moving forward. To reframe the perspective, Felix poses the question of how someone might treat a friend in a similar situation, — “what would they say to their best friend to comfort them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nctsn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Child Traumatic Stress Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/helpcenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Psychological Association Help Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nlpa.ws/find-an-expert#/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Latinx Psychological Association\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://abpsi.site-ym.com/search/custom.asp?id=5934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Association of Black Psychologists, Find a Therapist\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://kara-grief.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kara Grief Support\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/2032852766832910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 Loss Support Group for Young Adults, a Facebook group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/2032852766832910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motherless Daughters, Facebook group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An \u003ca href=\"https://refugeingrief.com/helper-overview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overview on how to help a grieving friend\u003c/a> from Megan Devine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.covidgriefnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The COVID Grief Network\u003c/a> offers free one-on-one and group grief support for young adults\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More resources from \u003ca href=\"https://alicaforneret.com/aboutme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alica Forneret\u003c/a>, founder of Dead Mom’s Club\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>List of \u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/lists/books-for-a-grieving-friend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">books on grief,\u003c/a> curated by journalist Katie Hawkins-Garr\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://letsreimagine.org/resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Let’s Reimagine\u003c/a>, resources and community events\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/75hicI0owzQKJmUuFwP4oc?si=oKkkEJ92TxWADTLrl2z2KQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grief Out Loud\u003c/a>, a podcast on grief from \u003ca href=\"https://www.dougy.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dougy Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s things that aren’t written down,” Ramos said. And with each human loss, “a thread of the culture” is lost too, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those experiencing grief during the pandemic — and particularly Black and Indigenous people of color (BIPOC), \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/16/913365560/the-majority-of-children-who-die-from-covid-19-are-children-of-color\">who have been so disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus \u003c/a>— what are some concrete ways individuals can work through the enormity of losing someone to COVID-19?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with three experts who all professionally focus on end-of-life care and approach grieving from differing perspectives:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanaendoflifedoula.com/end-of-life-doula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oceana Sawyer, \u003c/a>an end-of-life doula in the Bay Area,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cardamomandkavate.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roshni Kavate, \u003c/a>healer and activist, and former palliative care nurse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sbbh.net/provider/erika-felix/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erika Felix, \u003c/a>a licensed psychologist and associate professor of clinical psychology at UC Santa Barbara\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And keep in mind when reading this: as Felix noted on KQED Forum, “grief is not a one size fits all thing.” Consider and take what works for you and leave the rest. Additional resources on processing grief \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">are listed at the bottom of this article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Choose Someone You Can \u003cem>Really\u003c/em> Talk To\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I would suggest is the person get themselves a therapist,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanaendoflifedoula.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oceana Sawyer, \u003c/a> who as an end-of-life doula provides supportive care to people during the dying process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer hosts a virtual “death cafe” for the BIPOC community, as well as events focusing on grief and the Black experience. It’s important, Sawyer stresses, that the support you seek comes with the cultural competency you need. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to be able to communicate your experience to someone who can actually hear it and receive it, and reflect it back to you in its entirety,” Sawyer said — emphasizing the particular importance for BIPOC folks of doing so without the “need for code switching.” Ideally, anyone who is sharing their experiences should not be “impacted by microaggressions at a moment in time where you’re at your most vulnerable,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importance of cultural competency in professional support was echoed on KQED Forum’s show by Los Angeles Times reporter Brittny Mejia, who has been personally been working through the death of her own loved ones from COVID-19 while simultaneously reporting on the pandemic in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejia said her therapist is also Mexican American, which has “been a huge help to me that she kind of understands my family dynamic.” “She gets it” Mejia said — emphasizing that “it makes a huge difference for me to have a therapist like her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this matters, Oceana Sawyer says, because the communities of color she works with have been dying from the virus at disproportionate rates. And that means their grief is also happening in “the context of medical racism, which doesn’t provide adequate care for Black and brown Indigenous bodies,” she says — and all amid the “ongoing racial oppression and white supremacy” in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it’s more complex,” Sawyer said. “All these different layers are happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-1536x1035.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resources on finding culturally competent affordable therapy can be found below. \u003ccite>(Gender Spectrum Collection/Broadly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Remember That Grief Might Not Feel (or Look) Like You Think\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Erika Felix echoes the importance of having a support system. “We all know that there’s no words that can take away such a profound loss,” she said — and still, she notes, we \u003cem>need\u003c/em> our networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s someone close to you going through grief, Felix recommends checking in, but staying adaptable on the support you offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe they want to talk that day, maybe they don’t,” Felix said. “Maybe it just feels good to have somebody remember that they’re going through this and grieving.” And just knowing that you’re “willing to walk through it with them,” she added, is important for a person’s healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the five stages of grief may be more well known — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — the fact that everyone goes through them differently can be hard to reconcile with close family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might go through phases of depression and eventually come out at the other end with acceptance and being able to hold the memories and move forward,” said Felix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people also move \u003cem>in and out\u003c/em> of each stage in many different ways, Felix said. “Depending on somebody’s culture and family, and how they process emotions, even within families, grief can look very different,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each person’s grief and each family’s grief may look different and go through many continual phases. If you’re the one experiencing grief, be aware of this and be kind to yourself. And if you’re the one offering support, know that a loved one’s grief might not take the form or process you anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Allow Your Body to Feel Your Grief \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Grief is a full-body sport,” says Roshni Kavate, who grew up in India and worked for several years as an ICU and palliative care nurse in the Bay Area. “It shows up in your body and in your heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate now focuses on reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom, often working with people who are experiencing grief by mixing art and ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate says she left nursing after 12 years because she wanted to see a greater sense of caring in the bereavement process. “I want to do it with beauty and intention; with celebrating,” she said. And creating or recreating personal rituals for your body and brain to enact can allow those experiencing grief to rethink the shattered sense of meaning in their lives and regain a sense of control, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot control grief. It dictates when it’s going to show up,” Kavate said. But with ritual, she said, “you can get curious in that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also sees it as a cyclical process. Healing is often thought of with an endpoint, but as Kavate says, you don’t need to try to get to the end — since there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> no end. “If we can really feel the depth of emotion in our body,” she notes, that will help the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oceana Sawyer also highlights how both movement and sound — known as somatic or vocal processing — can be a way of moving through grief. This can be particularly powerful for BIPOC grievers, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole thing about the full-body wailing — the singing, the moving, the dancing … It’s part of how Black bodies actually metabolize grief,” Sawyer said. “When you move your body in a certain way — that rocking, that swing, you add a hum to it — those things together actually calm the nervous system, and allow the body to process big emotional experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835632\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-1536x1035.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listen to how you speak to yourself. Are you showing the same understanding and compassion that you’d extend to a friend? \u003ccite>(Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Move Your Body \u003cem>Into\u003c/em> Nature\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paying attention to your grief through journaling or meditation has huge value, Sawyer said, “but I \u003cem>really\u003c/em> recommend that people start moving around: specifically for BIPOC folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer recommends people notice and observe their body, “meditate, move — get out in nature and just start moving, noticing how it feels in your body, where the emotions are in your body,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate agrees that nature is a wonderful remedy. This could be something as simple as taking care of a plant for a kitchen garden, taking a hike in nature, or a trip to the beach — anything you can do to tend to life, while going through loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [we] are grieving, we don’t take care of ourselves,” Kavate said. “An antidote to grief is life,” she said, and urges ways to find “a deeper kinship with living beings, and life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Consider Connecting With Family and Ancestral Forms of Healing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Delving deeper into ancestral wisdom can be useful for immigrants as well as first, second and third generation Americans, Kavate says. The question she advises asking: “What in your culture was medicine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it was food-based, this could be answered by eating your grandmother’s favorite lamb meatballs, for example, or eating a mango. Kavate encourages people to particularly look into foods that bring you comfort — which could be traditional medicinal food, like stews, beans, rice and lentils. The smell of these foods, Kavate says, can also be powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Grief is really a calling for more joy and more life,” she said — and it’s important for people to “tend” to what is calling us and our bodies. “Our bodies are deeply intelligent and they have intelligence in how to navigate grief,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We'll add them as we find them here — and if you know of one that's not listed in this story, \u003ca href=\"#ask\">let us know\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before taking a look at volunteer opportunities around the Bay Area, consider these quick questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do You Have Medical Training?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some organizations and locations are only looking for volunteers with a medical background. We've noted \u003cstrong>MEDICAL\u003c/strong> next to these opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can You Volunteer Safely?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're in a group with a higher risk of contracting a severe case of COVID-19, or have have underlying conditions that increase your risk of complications from COVID-19, you may consider remote volunteering instead. 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You can \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">sign up\u003c/a> for medical and non-medical \"general support\" shifts at California vaccination sites and to receive updates on when new opportunities open near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big news: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/volunteer-California-vaccine-MyTurnVolunteer-16009060.php\">As reported by SFGate\u003c/a>, working four hours or more as a volunteer through My Turn Volunteer will make you eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine with approval from the clinic administrator, regardless of whether you're in a current priority group (e.g. age 65 or over) according to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit the \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">My Turn Volunteer site \u003c/a>for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California Health Corps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MEDICAL \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is seeking medical professionals \"to ensure adequate staff for health care sites throughout California,\" and is looking for professionals like nurses (RN, LVN, CNA,) physicians (MD, DO, psychiatrist), paramedics and respiratory therapists. 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Visit the \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/healthcorps/\">California Health Corps site\u003c/a> for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>#CaliforniansForAll\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>REMOTE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>#CaliforniansForAll is an initiative from the state's California Volunteers organization, connecting people in California to safe volunteer opportunities — some of which are remote. \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiavolunteers.ca.gov/get-involved/covid-19/signup/\">Sign up for #CaliforniansForAll here\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://californiansforall.volunteermatch.org/\">view current volunteer slots here\u003c/a> (select \"view only virtual opportunities\" to see just the remote openings).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>VaccinateCA\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>REMOTE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinateca.com/\">VaccinateCA \u003c/a>is a COVID-19 vaccine appointment dashboard that shows vaccination locations near you, noting their current availability and how to schedule an appointment. 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As California expands its vaccination program and site capacity, new volunteer opportunities will likely continue to open up around the Bay Area. We'll add them as we find them here — and if you know of one that's not listed in this story, \u003ca href=\"#ask\">let us know\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before taking a look at volunteer opportunities around the Bay Area, consider these quick questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do You Have Medical Training?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some organizations and locations are only looking for volunteers with a medical background. We've noted \u003cstrong>MEDICAL\u003c/strong> next to these opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can You Volunteer Safely?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're in a group with a higher risk of contracting a severe case of COVID-19, or have have underlying conditions that increase your risk of complications from COVID-19, you may consider remote volunteering instead. We've noted \u003cstrong>REMOTE\u003c/strong> next to the opportunities we found that are virtual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are You Prepared to Wait?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several counties are warning volunteer applicants of delays in vetting, and say it might be a while before you hear back from anyone about your application — either because of processing times or because officials are waiting to hit a certain threshold of vaccinations when more volunteer support will be required. So, we'd recommend patience when waiting to hear back about volunteering. In the meantime, you might consider other volunteering opportunities that support your community, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11851193/can-i-volunteer-at-a-food-bank-during-covid-19\">volunteering at a local food bank\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Do you have questions about how to get the COVID-19 vaccine? \u003ca href=\"#ask\">Submit yours here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"mtvolunteer\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>My Turn Volunteer\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MEDICAL | NON-MEDICAL \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn\u003c/a> is the state's site for finding and scheduling vaccine appointments (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#where\">more information here\u003c/a>), and now it has a new volunteer sign-up portal called \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">My Turn Volunteer\u003c/a>. You can \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">sign up\u003c/a> for medical and non-medical \"general support\" shifts at California vaccination sites and to receive updates on when new opportunities open near you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big news: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/volunteer-California-vaccine-MyTurnVolunteer-16009060.php\">As reported by SFGate\u003c/a>, working four hours or more as a volunteer through My Turn Volunteer will make you eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine with approval from the clinic administrator, regardless of whether you're in a current priority group (e.g. age 65 or over) according to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit the \u003ca href=\"https://myturnvolunteer.ca.gov/s/landing\">My Turn Volunteer site \u003c/a>for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California Health Corps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MEDICAL \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is seeking medical professionals \"to ensure adequate staff for health care sites throughout California,\" and is looking for professionals like nurses (RN, LVN, CNA,) physicians (MD, DO, psychiatrist), paramedics and respiratory therapists. 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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered\">\u003cstrong>RELATED: Where Can I Get a COVID-19 Vaccine in the Bay Area? \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated Feb. 5.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859374/vaccinateca-una-red-para-encontrar-sitios-de-vacunacion-ahora-disponible-en-espanol\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've been looking for facts about getting your COVID-19 vaccine, you might have discovered that just finding clear information on how to schedule an appointment for an eligible person can be a difficult, time-consuming process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-January a site called \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinateca.com/\">VaccinateCA\u003c/a> launched that not only lists vaccination sites around California, but details their current vaccine availability. The information is gathered manually by a team who compiled a list of medical centers, pharmacies and hospitals around the state, and now regularly contacts those locations to confirm their vaccine inventory — as well as what groups they're now accepting, and how to make an appointment yourself. There are also now versions of the site \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinateca.com/es/\">in Spanish\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinateca.com/zh-hans/\">Simplified Chinese. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ask\">Tell us: What do you want to know about getting the COVID-19 vaccine in the Bay Area?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But the thing about VaccinateCA? It's completely staffed by volunteers who make those calls, maintain the website and coordinate efforts across the state. And this crowdsourcing is filling a need in California that as yet, health officials don't seem to have addressed themselves: the need for residents to simply schedule a COVID-19 vaccine appointment near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Confusion and Low Availability\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California has begun by prioritizing health care workers and long-term care residents (Phase 1A) for vaccination, and is now moving into its \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccines/\">next phases\u003c/a>. But even if you're eligible for the state's current vaccination phase, you'll need to find a vaccination site near you that has inventory enough to be able to serve you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11855623\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/GettyImages-1230603226-1020x605.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Gov. 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As \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/arghavan_salles/status/1351033952455286785\">this Twitter thread\u003c/a> from surgeon and advocate Dr. Arghavan Salles details, even trying to find the information itself can be a frustrating, circular process, littered with informational dead ends online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when finding this crucial information is so complex, it heightens the difficulty for those with less time and resources, those without consistent access to the internet, and for residents who speak languages other than English or who don't have experience navigating the U.S. medical system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003cem>has\u003c/em> launched \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">MyTurn\u003c/a>, a tool which allows Californians to input their details to see instantly if they're currently eligible for the vaccine — and to sign up for notifications about eligibility and future appointment scheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The My Turn site now says that if you're near San Francisco, Los Angeles or San Diego, \"you may be able to schedule your appointment today\" using the tool, and that they're \"adding appointments to My Turn daily, and expanding statewide.\" Check if you're currently able to make an appointment through My Turn \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How VaccinateCA Works\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom's Jan. 13 announcement that Californians age 65 and older were now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine prompted tech worker Patrick McKenzie to issue a simple call on Twitter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1349577791537250310\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manish Goregaokar, an engineer with Google based in Berkeley, saw McKenzie's tweet and began to mull on what he might be able to offer. When a personal friend reached out and added him to the Discord server that the first volunteers were using to communicate, Goregaokar officially got on board and began by helping the team find and collate phone numbers for every one of the medical centers and pharmacies on their list: \"500 or so phone numbers,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VaccinateCA team now numbers more than 250 volunteers around California. They include many engineers by day, such as himself, said Goregaokar, who have been instrumental in building and maintaining the system on which the dashboard runs, as well as folks providing coordinating services like media liaison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the project also turns on the work of old-fashioned phone bankers making those regular calls to vaccination locations. The information that volunteers get from their calls feeds the public-facing dashboard and also the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinateca.com/\">VaccinateCA map\u003c/a>. Users can see details such as if a provider is only accepting current patients or whether prior registration through the county is required for vaccination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Coronavirus Coverage' tag='coronavirus']During the COVID-19 pandemic, we've seen how misinformation — intentional or inadvertent — can rush to fill a void created by an absence of reliable information from official sources. Goregaokar said he and the VaccinateCA team are accordingly aware of the importance of keeping the dashboard's information up to date and accurate, and urged users to \u003ca href=\"https://airtable.com/shrY44NvEjHBscrOH\">submit any additions or corrections\u003c/a> through the site, such as adding a missing vaccination location, correcting contact information or reporting unavailable vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prevent their information from resulting in vaccine seekers jamming up a clinic's phone lines, Goregaokar said the VaccinateCA dashboard only lists phone numbers when that's the location's stated preference for scheduling vaccination appointments. Generally, when it comes to errors, Goregaokar said, \"It's more often just that we're listing a place as a 'yes,' but the 'yes' \u003cem>conditions\u003c/em> are more nuanced than we thought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VaccinateCA's quest has also had the unintended consequence of alerting several pharmacies to the fact that they're not in their county's system as eligible vaccine providers — even though they should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goregaokar said after one Rite Aid pharmacy in San Bernardino County was called by a VaccinateCA volunteer, pharmacy staff realized they weren't actually listed as a provider by the county — and were accordingly not receiving appointment requests for the vaccines they had. Pharmacy staff then worked with the county to correct the situation, prompting VaccinateCA's volunteers to then make more calls to other Rite Aid pharmacies in that region to advise them to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ManishEarth/status/1351798715862827119\">Goregaokar wrote on Twitter\u003c/a>, \"This switch between 'we're directly helping people, indirectly helping the system' to 'we're also directly helping the system' was fascinating to watch unfold, and really rewarding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ManishEarth/status/1351798715862827119?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What's Next for California Vaccinations?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Other states have official vaccine availability dashboards allowing residents to see providers near them offering appointments — like \u003ca href=\"https://tdem.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3700a84845c5470cb0dc3ddace5c376b\">this map from Texas's Division of Emergency Management\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet weeks into the vaccine rollout, VaccinateCA's unofficial system remains the closest thing California has to a centralized dashboard. The California Department of Public Health said they \"have no comment on the VaccinateCA website.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Manish Goregaokar, VaccineCA co-organizer\"]'If this information is not out there, it should be. And it should be as easy as possible for people who are eligible for the vaccine to get the vaccine.'[/pullquote]VaccinateCA spokesperson Zoelle Egner said via email that the project coordinators are \"actively reaching out to — and hearing from! — folks in both local and state government,\" and that they \"encourage anyone in local and state government to reach out so we can work together towards our mutual goal\" of accelerating vaccination rates in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDPH has also launched the \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">MyTurn notification system\u003c/a> to let people know if and when they are eligible to schedule a vaccination appointment. 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