California partners with FEMA/CDC to vaccinate underserved populations

Protecting herself. Amanda Kloots spoke out after some criticized her for getting the COVID-19 vaccine after her husband Nick Cordero’s death.

Haley Bosselman editorIn today’s TV news roundup, “South Park” is back with a new COVID-19 vaccine special, and Amazon Prime Video offered a first look at animated series “Invincible,” starring Steven Yeun.The Feb. 22 episode of “The Good Doctor” will feature Southern California Special Olympics global messenger Caley Versfelt, Variety has learned exclusively.

California announced late Monday that Blue Shield had been chosen as the state’s third party administrator for vaccine distribution. Governor Gavin Newsom has been promising for weeks to release details of the contract. Those details were made public yesterday, a holiday, the same day no-bid contract went into effect.

Amid the closure of the state’s biggest Covid-19 vaccination site over a precipitous drop in supply, California state health officials announced on Friday that the state would soon allow another 4-6 million residents to qualify for vaccination. There are currently 13 million people in the state who are eligible for vaccination.

“The issue of mutations is top of mind,” said Governor Gavin Newsom at his Wednesday Covid-19 press conference, “not only here in the State of California, but across the globe.”

LOS ANGELES – Only those Angelenos with proof of getting the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will be inoculated starting Tuesday.

coronavirus vaccine, despite being in the age bracket to qualify for the jab in California. The singer, who is currently suffering from stage four breast cancer for the third time in 28 years, made the surprising admission in a joint interview with her daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 35, but didn't go into detail for her reasons behind the decision.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFrom the attack on the United States Capitol to the inauguration of President Joe Biden and all of the COVID-19 developments in between (including a still-rising number of cases in California, a U.K. variant and a very slow rollout of the vaccine), so much has happened since “Saturday Night Live” last aired a new episode it seemed an increasingly impossible task for the NBC late-night sketch comedy series to respond to the news.

SACRAMENTO – After considerable criticism at the roll-out of coronavirus vaccinations in California, in a system beset with shortages of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines at a national level and confusion in the state’s coronavirus vaccine delivery system, it was announced that health insurance giant Blue Shield of California will be the outside administrator. 

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry live in an £11.2 million mansion nestled in the Californian hills.They live in Montecito, Santa Barbara, where Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise and Ellen DeGeneres, also own homes. While the couple rarely give personal interviews, their home is full of hidden meanings shared via several notable possessions.

“The good news is we’ve seen highs almost near 4,000 admissions a day into our hospitals because of Covid,” said the Golden State’s Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly today. ‘Now seeing days below 2,500 and even getting lower, which is exactly what’s going to keep our hospital conditions improving and our ICU capacity as high as it can be.”

SACRAMENTO – California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Monday that he was cancelling the stay-at-home order that had been reimposed on residents of 51 of the state’s 58 counties last month as a state-wide shortage of ICU and hospital beds crippled California’s healthcare systems.

“Los Angeles County will essentially align with the state,” said L.A. County Board Chair Hilda Solis on Monday afternoon, “which will include outdoor dining.” She said those changes would happen by the end of the week.

“Everything that should be up is up, everything that should be down is down,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday as he sought to explain his sudden decision to end the state’s Regional Stay-at-Home Order. Newsom said he was referencing to Covid-19 numbers and vaccinations. Many in the state, however, have felt less certain of the nature of up vs. down.

California lifted regional stay-at-home orders across the state Monday in response to improving coronavirus conditions, returning the state to a system of county-by-county restrictions, state health officials announced. The order had been in place in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, covering the majority of the state's counties.