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With No News On FEMA Clinic, Counties Await More Vaccine Supplies – COVID-19 Update For Feb. 12

When Governor Gavin Newsom stopped in Fresno earlier this week, he was widely anticipated to announce that Fresno would be the site of the state’s newest mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic. The clinic, which he had alluded to earlier in the week, is expected to be run in partnership between the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and it would bring in thousands of vaccine doses each day beyond what the county already receives from the state. But a big announcement still hasn’t come, and so Fresno and other San Joaquin Valley counties continue to make do with less-than-ideal vaccine allocations. Many have had to temporarily halt new appointments at vaccination clinics or make them available only for those in need of second doses. This week’s COVID update looks back at the governor’s Fresno visit and examines the vaccine rollout elsewhere in the Valley, featuring excerpts of conversations with Timothy Lutz, director of the Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency, and
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