By Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, March 4, 2021
California plans to adopt a coronavirus vaccine system that will allocate 40% of vaccine supply to its lowest-income residents, state officials said Wednesday.
The changes, which are expected to take effect in the next two weeks, will not affect who is currently eligible to get vaccinated, which is health care workers, people who are 65 and older, education and child care workers, food and agriculture workers, and emergency services workers.
Rather, once the new system begins, eligible people in the state’s roughly 400 lowest-income ZIP codes will get 40% of vaccine supply and appointments reserved for them. About 8 million residents who are eligible for the vaccine live in those 400 ZIP codes. Officials said other ZIP codes likely won’t get fewer doses than they do now, but may get a smaller portion of increased supplies going forward.
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