Press Play with Madeleine Brand
COVID vaccine is coming soon. A look at California’s rollout plan
Barbara Ferrer, director of LA County’s Department of Public Health, fought back tears at Wednesday’s coronavirus briefing.
By Madeleine Brand • • 8m ListenBarbara Ferrer, director of LA County’s Department of Public Health, fought back tears at Wednesday’s coronavirus briefing. “While this trend line provides a frightening visual of our reality, the more terrible truth is that over 8,000 people, sorry, over 8,000 people who were beloved members of their families are not coming back. And their deaths are an incalculable loss to their friends and their family, as well as our community,” she said.
The country is pinning its hopes on vaccines that are arriving soon. Today, the FDA voted to recommend Pfizer's COVID vaccine for emergency use in the U.S. That means California’s frontline health care workers could begin getting the shots in a few days.
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1 of 5Taylor Mac’s ‘Holiday Sauce...Pandemic!’ focuses on families and living a virtuous life- 0:00COVID vaccine is coming soon. A look at California’s rollout planYou’re reading this
- 9:00California didn’t thoroughly follow Gov. Newsom’s law to track COVID among LGBTQ
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- 24:34Monoliths are popping up from Romania to Utah. Meet the artists who put one up in California
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