California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a series of changes to the state’s vaccination plan on Monday, including a shift to an age-based eligibility system for COVID-19 vaccines. The reasoning for the new framework is to simplify the eligibility process and standardize vaccine information and data to help ensure the available supply of COVID-19 vaccine is administered to residents as quickly ...

With several COVID-19 vaccine candidates in clinical trials, a review board of California physician-scientists is set to review the vaccine process for safety before the vaccine is distributed in California, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Monday. On Monday, Newsom named a group of nationally-acclaimed California physician-scientists with expertise in immunization and public health to the state’s COVID-19 Scientific Safety Review Workgroup ...