Emergency Use Authorization

Children Ages 5 to 11 Could Start Getting COVID-19 Vaccinations Next Week
It looks like kids as young as 5 years old could start getting COVID-19 vaccinations as early as next week. The Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday voted 17-0 to recommend emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. The decision was based on a smaller,

San Francisco Administers First COVID-19 Vaccinations
San Francisco began administering COVID-19 vaccinations to frontline health care workers Tuesday morning. The city was one of the state’s four initial distribution hubs that welcomed vaccine doses Monday, receiving 2,000 units of the Pfizer vaccine. California as a whole received a little more than 33,000 doses Monday, which nearly

California Works to Secure Millions of Vaccine Doses As COVID-19 Surge Pushes State to Brink
If all goes according to plan, a little more than 1 million California healthcare workers could soon be vaccinated against COVID-19. While the news offers much needed hope, it does not provide us a way out of the current surge. Still, things are at least moving in the right direction.