California Extends Vaccine Access to People With Disabilities
State officials said Friday that Californians under age 65 have handicapped or severe underlying health conditions, which will be eligible for vaccination against coronaviruses beginning March 15.
California was delivering vaccines to the Tier, prioritizing people with high-risk medical conditions over healthy adults and some essential workers over others, but slow delivery of its system after a course change in late January Have you seen. Under the new system, several categories were replaced with age-based levels.
But as people with chronic illness and disability become displaced according to people 65 and older, the move has led to widespread anger and confusion. Bay Area activists accused the administration of mistreating Gov. Gavin Newsom and criticized the governor on Twitter with the hashtag #HighRiskCA. California now joins some states offering eligibility for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities or people with underlying health conditions.
The adjustment will extend the Kovid-19 vaccination to people over 16 who are debilitated or immunized by cancer or an organ transplant. This would also include those who are pregnant or have chronic pulmonary disease, Down syndrome, sickle cell disease, heart condition, severe obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease that is stage 4 or higher, and those whose life or ongoing care Otherwise Kovid-19 is likely to be threatened.
“I want the disability community to know, we’ve heard you, and we’re going to provide more and better access, even in spite of the lack of a vaccine”, Governor Newsom said Friday at a large immunization center in San Francisco Visited Moscon Center.
