Contra Costa Health Services said Thursday while any county residents 65 and older are now eligible to register to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, the wait for an appointment could be weeks for some seeking the vaccine.
In response to new expanded guidelines from the state, Contra Costa Health Services and other health care providers in the county are now offering no-cost COVID-19 vaccines to residents 65 or older.
But Contra Costa officials stressed that someone in a higher-risk group — especially someone who is 75 or older — might receive an earlier appointment than will a younger person, even if the older resident requested a later appointment.
“Contra Costa Health Services is working hard with many partners, including other health providers in the county, to increase capacity so everyone can be vaccinated more quickly,” according to a statement released Thursday morning.
“Contra Costa is coordinating with the state and building capacity to fill thousands of new requests.”
Appointments, county health officials said, are limited by available vaccine supply and other factors.
The county receives shipments of vaccine every week. A new vaccination appointment call center, they said, is expected to be ready next week.
A vaccine appointment request form can be found at bit.ly/35zpGw8.
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A worry I’m sure others share is whether that second dose will be there when needed if I get the first one now?
The government will surely screw that up and what then?
Better to wait, unless I can get the single dose version, which I’d do in a heartbeat.
I understand you cannot specify which version you want though…
That will be my first question. I read that if one gets the Phizer shot you cannot go out more than three weeks for the second shot, and Maderna you can wait only a month, I will post what I find out.
They were holding back a specific amount so that people are guaranteed their second dose. IDK if they are anymore, but I got mine on Tuesday and they scheduled me for the next dose right then and there. The minimum # of days before you can get the next shot is 21 or 28.. you can’t get it before that but you can get it after. I think they are trying to schedule for the exact number of days though.
I got my mother an appointment at Kaiser for Tuesday. They said at your first first appointment they are scheduling the second and that they are assuring their is adequate for the second injection.
Bingo! Thanks!!!
I am over 65 but waiting for the J&J shot. It doesn’t require exteme storage and its one shot
Looking at their form, appears homeless are out of luck.
Have to give them address, email and a phone number able to receive text.
So much for streamlining the process.
In order to get the vaccination, we now “need” permission from the county ?
I don’t know the number, but know an elderly person who doesn’t have a computer or internet access and doesn’t text, who called and left a message and got called back yesterday to schedule their vaccine dates and times, the first being at the end of this month.
I am currently on a 4 hour wait on the COVID Vaccine line through Kaiser. I was told that a lady had to wait that long. Oh well what else do I have to do?
Ha ha. Just put the phone speaker on and forget about it.
And scaredy-cats like you, Bernie and Joe Blo will wait that long. 🙄🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ Good Luck! You could probably just go to DVC to get the shot and it would be faster then waiting on the “COVID LINE.”
I have Kaiser also. I went the route through the county and have an appointment on the 19 this month. I just called Kaiser and the wait is five hours to make an appointment. I will stick with the county. See who gets their shot first.
Good.
https://www.unian.info/m/world/covid-19-over-20-people-vaccinated-with-pfizer-vaccine-die-in-norway-11285645.html
Filled out the form yesterday and have an appointment for Jan 19. You have to be over 75. You have to wait for them to email you back.
LOL
The government will develop such a huge infrastructure to try and manage these shots that it will have to be “repurposed” if/when the inoculations ever come to an end.
Then again, mandatory inoculations may become the new normal.
Thank you Mayor for posting this, very helpful and clear info!
I am 77, just got first dose today in Martinez..Easy Peasy!!! Filled out the form on Monday, response on Tuesday, injection today. I t took a total of 30 minutes with sign in, and waiting 15 minutes to see if there is reaction. The only pain is parking.
Where did you get the shot? The location please
Where did you get it and how did you make an appointment?
Register on line, Contra Costa Health Services, they will send reply. Injections are given behind the hospital in Martinez. It was VERY easy to get appointment. 2nd appointment is already scheduled.
I think I’ll wait for the rush to die down some. Ask me again in about 6 months or so.
Easy Peasy!!!! I am 77, we have private insurance. But, I filled out form for County on Monday, got response on Tuesday, made appointment for today and had first injection today. The only pain is finding parking.
what about the delivery van in the previous article, can’t it be used to go to the people who need shots???
crazy conservative logic!
For CA, “As of January 13, a total of 2,948,350 vaccine doses, which includes the first and second dose, have been shipped to local health departments and health care systems that have facilities in multiple counties.”
CoCo county is lumped in with 15 other counties to comprise Region Two.
“(includes counties Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma)”
So far as of January 13 only 246,694 shots have been given in all of those 16 counties.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/VaccineDoses.aspx
Original G, these are the type of data I am interested in seeing. What would be interesting as well, would be how many doses were distributed to each region, for a percentage of administration (of course, mostly interested in Region 2, ours, but also to see if there are favored regions, getting an unusually larger amount relative to the population size. This way, we could follow the efficiency each region demonstrates in administration of the vaccine.
By the time I am eligible to get the vaccine I will be living in a different state! Kleptofornica is a state in need of a savior, and Gavin bin Lyon’ ain’t it.
Looks like the people on this post that are getting quick response AND shots are Kaiser patients. That also is true for a lot of my friends. Maybe CoCo County should take lessons from Kaiser. Oh, wait Kaiser is not government controlled. Silly me.
Not true Grape. If you want an appointment at Kaiser it is a five hour phone call just to make the appointment . Better off using the prompt in this article by Claycord. That is through the county.
I wrote our kaiser drs and they said we’d be contacted when its our turn. They are now accepting 65+, but I’m 76 and hubby 89 and nothing from kaiser.
The county knows how to shut down small businesses very quickly, but can’t think about using something like the empty Concord Pavilion to inoculate the masses.
The challenge there would be storing the virus. It needs to be kept at a very low temperature.
I just looked at the form. I don’t fall into any of the categories. I’m only 57 but I’m a cancer survivor for less then two years with a compromised immune system. Guess I have to keep waiting. Stay safe everyone.
Perhaps the County needs a new hammer to help improve this process? I’m sure the Board of Supervisors have one laying around somewhere.
My dad called CC Health directly as he is over 75 and had a less than stellar time with them on the phone. He also called Kaiser and talked to someone that didn’t know their head from a hole in the ground. Meanwhile my MIL made an appointment for Monday, after holding for 3 hours on the phone.
Had my first vaccine shot in Martinez on Monday. My health care provider had contacted me the week prior to make an appt. The appt took about an hour total mostly due to the long line. Shot went well…no side effects. I go back on the 1st of Feb for the second shot. I am 59yrs old with a comorbidity of heart disease. Maybe that is why I was selected as a candidate for the shots. Hang in there folks, this is a massive campaign to get everyone vaccinated who wants to be vaccinated. This will get done.
Thanks Gavin, California is ranked 49th out of 50 in it’s rollout of the vaccine. We must be competing with the public school system.
Signed the recall, hoping he’ll pick his head out of his ass and care about people who live here, like we want to help other people too but have to help ourselves first!
I have an autoimmune disease as well so just wondering from people’s experiences with that, or if it is better to wait longer to receive it or if it is better not to?
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