Gov. Newsom Cites Progress On California Vaccinations, Praises San Diego's Super Station

San Diego CA

09 February, 2021

12:16 PM

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By Chris Jennewein, Times of San Diego February 8, 2021 Gov. Gavin Newsom toured the vaccination super station at Petco Park on Monday and praised San Diego for "leading the way" in administering coronavirus vaccines in California. Newsom noted that San Diego opened the first high-volume vaccination site, setting an example for Los Angeles and other counties in the state. "You've inspired others throughout the state of California," he said during a press briefing on the baseball field. He said San Diego's success was setting up a "competition of sorts" that would spur efforts in other jurisdictions that "candidly are way behind." Newsom said the biggest challenge remained obtaining a sufficient supply of vaccines to keep vaccination centers like the one at Petco Park operating at full capacity. He said California was allocated 1.06 million doses last week, will get slightly more this week, and as many as 1.2 million next week. But he acknowledged that "we're going to need to see more doses coming into California to keep these mass sites open." So far California has administered 4.63 million doses, Newsom said, with a daily record of 197,000 doses set on Sunday. He said that despite the shortage of vaccines, there was good news in the decline in daily case rates across California. "50,000 cases down to 10,000 cases over the last 30 days," he said. "Everything that should be down is down. That is encouraging news indeed." Times of San Diego is an independent online news site covering the San Diego metropolitan area. Our journalists report on politics, crime, business, sports, education, arts, the military and everyday life in San Diego. No subscription is required, and you can sign up for a free daily newsletter with a summary of the latest news.