California plans to launch a coronavirus vaccination information and data hub in the coming weeks that will allow state residents to sign up for alerts when they are eligible to receive a vaccine, Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week.
The vaccination hub, dubbed My Turn, uses technology from Salesforce and Skedulo and is currently being piloted in Los Angeles and San Diego counties, Newsom said, with the intent of making it available statewide by February.
Residents will be able to use My Turn to sign up for text or email notifications when they can finally receive a vaccine as well as information on where vaccines are available, how many state residents have already been vaccinated and the tiers for vaccine access.
Newsom touted My Turn as “the most robust” vaccination information system in the country, but noted that getting it available to all Californians will take a few weeks to ensure a smooth roll out.
“We just want to make sure that we don’t run this thing into the ground and have a system that shuts down,” Newsom said Monday during a briefing on the pandemic.
Around 130,000 state residents are being vaccinated each day as of Jan. 15, according to the California Department of Public Health. As of Jan. 17, roughly 3.2 million vaccine doses have been shipped to local health departments and multi-county health care systems.
In addition to launching My Turn, Newsom announced that the state will change its vaccine distribution hierarchy to an age-based system, once all health care workers, people over age 65, food and agriculture workers, teachers and school staff members are vaccinated.
The age-based system “will allow us to scale up much more quickly and get vaccines to impacted communities much more expeditiously,” Newsom said.
Newsom argued that the state’s current average number of vaccinations per day puts the state on track to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of 100 million vaccinations across the country in his first 100 days.
The state would only have to average around 110,000 vaccinations per day to meet that goal, Newsom noted.
“Even if things were static – they will not be – but even if things were static, we would more than exceed the goal that was laid out by the Biden administration,” Newsom said.
Newsom also acknowledged the state’s lackluster vaccination rate so far, ranking in the bottom half of states by the percentage of vaccine doses administered.
Public health officials in many counties, including some in the Bay Area, have argued they don’t have access to enough doses to efficiently vaccinate large numbers of people.
Likewise, the state’s original framework of which demographics to vaccinate and when likely contributed to the lag, Newsom said.
“We realize we have got to increase throughput here,” he said. “While we are proud of the framework we put out … we recognize it has advantages and it has disadvantages as it relates to speed and efficiency.”
The state also plans to reallocate some vaccine doses that go unused to ensure every possible dose is utilized.
“We have tripled our rate of administration of the vaccine,” Newsom said, noting that daily vaccinations were at just 43,459 on Jan. 4. “We’re just getting going.”
Stop it.
Use this money to help small businesses
Another epic fail in the making.
30 billion in fraud at EDD when all they had to do was send checks to the right people. Setting up statewide vaccination data is much more complicated.
Recall Newsome. We need some common sense in Sacramento.
Crock of BS, Recall Newsom.
108RS
“Robust system” = ‘we’re going to collect lots of personal data”
Why prioritize the teacher’s union when teachers refuse to return to the classroom? Make them wait in line with everyone else, and that includes the unemployment line!
The teachers union is a supporter of the grease ball.
They give him a great deal of money and support.
Now he owes them.
Too much talk and not enough vaccines.
I hope it helps. Simply put, the Salesforce guys gave him a presentation and he signed up. They are really good, even better than timeshare salespeople. Salesforce sells hope.
Again, I hope it helps.
LOL
I don’t sign up for anything.
I don’t trust anything this nefarious state does.
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Will it be filled with misinformation and fraud like the EDD?
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Will this hub include info on the number of people with adverse reaction and the severity of those reactions?
Will it include info of which vaccines were pulled from use or “paused” because of such adverse reactions?
Will it include info on the number of people who got the vaccine but still tested positive for Covid anyway?
Hey Gavin, real leaders would have done this in April in preparation of the vaccines being available.
Sounds like they are disappointed in the turnout especially when they for awhile lowered the age for the vaccine. I’ve noted here that some people say they prefer to wait for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine which they expect to be less risky.
Suit yourself but there are those who looking at what these vaccines do say why bother? It’s been a year and some have not even had a sniffle.
“Sounds like they are disappointed in the turnout especially when they for awhile lowered the age for the vaccine.” Think about what you just wrote. Why do you think they raised the age back up? The demand was too high. Are you aware how difficult it’s been for seniors to find vaccine appointments because demand exceeds supply? Do people not learn to critical think anymore?
Then why they lowered the ages in the first place? There is information in between the lines that may not be obvious to you. Merck has stopped their vaccine development almost implying one might be better off through natural immunity.
They are behind in administering vaccinations for a severe, worldwide virus pandemic? Oh right, they have all these Press Releases to write and send out everyday.
https://www.protocol.com/vaccine-california-machine-learning
Big deal. I have been eligible for over a week and can’t even find one
The vaccine vials only hold 5 doses, 6 if you use a no loss syringe. Anybody know why so small? Also, I hear that a shortage of syringes is beginning to develop in some areas.
The gave all the needles to the junkie hotels.
i hope it is an app that is forced onto my phone without my permission, so i don’t have to think about it because thinking makes me so unhappy and i don’t like being unhappy, it is so better to be happy all the time, yaaa!!!
p.s. where can i get some crack? (not a serious request on my part in case anyone was wondering, just a comment on the electorate)
Teachers, who refuse to work in person and continue to get fat checks while sitting at home, get priority over the poor sods at Safeway, Walmart, Taco Bell, Home Depot? The near minimum-wage workers who deal with 100s or 1000s of people a day, in close proximity, usually with horrible air circulation?
Pathetic.
Inject something into my body that has had probably 6 months or clinical trials? But wait, the drug companies say it’s safe. Homey don’t play that…..