The state's anticipated stockpile of the coronavirus vaccine includes over 600,000 doses of the yet-to-be-approved Moderna vaccine.
On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said they're expecting 672,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine this month. Earlier this week, the governor mentioned the state’s orders for the first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine were in and plans are still on track for delivery by December 15, pending expected approval Thursday from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Despite an explosion in coronavirus cases across the state over the weekend, Gov. Newsom believes an end to the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight.
"Hope is on the horizon with a vaccination," he said.
While that first batch will only contain 327,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, the governor said to expect many more to come in subsequent deliveries, and soon. We've learned San Francisco will get an estimated 12,000 doses and Los Angeles is expecting close to 84,000 doses as early as next Tuesday.
Santa Clara County, home to the Bay Area's biggest coronavirus surge and most aggressive shutdown tactics, announced Wednesday they'd be getting 17,500 doses of Pfizer's vaccine, with another 39,300 doses of the Moderna vaccine once each recieved approval from regulators.
"You add Pfizer and Moderna and then all the other subsequent distributors and manufacturers of vaccines that will stack behind them, we’re working on a planning assumption of 2.16 million doses in the calendar month of December," the governor added.
That means the state could inoculate more than a million Californians by the end of the year, as both Pfizer and Moderna require two doses to fully vaccinate a person.
"We’re getting into December now, first week of December and you’re going to start, I expect - and I really believe this - start getting good news and numbers to significantly increase over the weeks, not just months, in terms of availability of vaccination," he said.
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