During a visit to Fresno on Wednesday, Governor Gavin Newsom said vaccinating the Central Valley against COVID-19 is a “top priority.” Though Newsom was widely expected to announce a new federal government-partnered mass vaccination clinic in the city during his stop at the Fresno Fairgrounds, he instead shared that the state had selected a COVID-19 testing site at Reedley College to be converted into a community vaccination clinic. The transition of the Reedley site marks the first in a statewide effort to offer vaccines at what are currently testing sites run by the state partner OptumServe. “This is the beginning of an effort to streamline, to focus, to reenergize,” vaccine efforts, he said, particularly with a focus on equity. “We are falling short of our goals of making sure that we truly are being equitable in the distribution, administration of this vaccine…we have to do more.” Although some conflicting numbers were shared during the media event, Fresno County Community Health
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