Reporters Seek Priority in California Vaccine Distribution

Dave McNary, a veteran film reporter for Variety, died Saturday in Pasadena. He was 69.

California inmates with special needs were among the first to get vaccinations against COVID-19 in the Golden State this week, according to a Tuesday report. Sixty-five inmates and employees of California Health Care Facility in Stockton, volunteered to receive the vaccine Tuesday, said Steve Crouch, director of public employees for the International Union of Operating Engineers, which represents maintenance and systems employees.

The fines reportedly are piling up at this California gym – but the exercise bikes and treadmills keep on spinning.  A Fitness 19 location in Daly City is still allowing customers to work out inside despite San Mateo County ordering its closure for violating a regional coronavirus stay-at-home order, according to KRON.  The station says it has talked to the gym’s manager who confirmed the fines – but said the gym will keep paying them and remain open as usual.  A Fitness 19 location in Daly

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAlex Padilla has been appointed to replace Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate, becoming the first Latino senator from California.Gov.

Some wealthy Southern California A-listers are trying to jump to the front of the line in an effort to get the coronavirus vaccine. Some attempting to leverage their power and influence and others are offering five-figure donations to hospitals to gain access.  Health care workers and nursing home residents are slated to receive the vaccine first.They will be followed by essential workers and people over 75.

Santa Claus should stick with his reindeer and sleigh. A California man who dressed up as jolly old Saint Nick and took to the skies above Sacramento with his paraglider to spread Christmas cheer had to be rescued Sunday after becoming entangled in power lines.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed that he personally vaccinated Santa Claus ahead of Christmas Day. The nation’s leading infectious disease expert, who will celebrate his 80th birthday on December 24, told curious children that Kris Kringle is safe to deliver presents. During a ‘Sesame Street’ town hall on December 18, a child named Lucy, 8, from San Rafael, California asked the question, “How did Santa get the vaccine and is it safe for him to go in the house?”

Physicians at California's Stanford Medical Center accused administrators on Friday of prioritizing non-frontline health care workers for the coronavirus vaccine instead of those who work directly with COVID-19 patients.  Residents, nurses, fellows and other hospital staff gathered at the Palo Alto medical campus to protest the university, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Some held signs reading "Stanford has 5,000 doses.

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FedEx and Pfizer have taken precautions to handle possible inclement weather – and other complications – that might impede the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine across the country. This week saw the first distributions of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

HOLLYWOOD – Helen Cordova, an ICU nurse at Kaiser Permenante Los Angeles Medical Center, became the first person in California to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterPresident-elect Joe Biden has surpassed the 270 electoral votes needed to claim the presidency, as California’s electors put him over the top on Monday afternoon.With the state’s 55 votes added to the tally, Biden held 302 electoral votes. He and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are expected to finish with 306 votes once Hawaii’s four electors cast their ballots later on Monday.

Members of a bicycling group were grieving Thursday after five participants in their annual Nevada-California border-area ride were killed when a box truck struck them, according to reports. Three more members of the group of about 20 riders were injured in the horrific crash, according to FOX 5 of Las Vegas.

Khloé Kardashian isn’t particularly excited about Tristan Thompson‘s career trek up into the far Northeast!

Several companies affiliated with one California Gov. Gavin Newsom founded 28 years ago received nearly $3 million in the coronavirus-related Paycheck Protection Program while other small businesses failed to receive funds, according to reports.

A 22-year-old California driver with a prior impaired-driving arrest was being held Tuesday night following a suspected DUI crash in Newport Beach that left a young couple dead and their three young children critically injured, according to reports.  Authorities said the suspect, Grace Elizabeth Coleman, 22, of Newport Beach, tried to walk away from the scene before she was arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired.

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A California judge issued a ruling on Tuesday that said Los Angeles County acted “arbitrarily” and without rational justification when it banned outdoor dining late last month, according to reports. "The Restaurant Closure Order is an abuse of the Department’s emergency powers, is not grounded in science, evidence, or logic, and should be adjudicated to be unenforceable as a matter of law," wrote Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C.