The number two was prominent at Gov. Newsom's coronavirus news conference yesterday when the governor reported that two gorillas at the San Diego Zoo have tested positive. (Who was the lucky zoo-keeper who had to stick the swab up the gorillas' noses?)
More significantly for blog readers, Gov. Newsom noted that only 2% of UC health workers who were offered the vaccine declined or postponed their offered shots.* Media reports keep emphasizing vaccine reluctance. But reluctance is not the current problem. The issue for the state as a whole is less one of resistance to vaccination and more one of effective distribution of the vaccine on hand to those who want it. Data through yesterday from the CDC indicate that although California has received over 2.8 million doses, it has distributed less than 28% of those doses.** California is doing more poorly than many other states in that regard, a fact that is becoming a political issue, particularly since there is a recall petition for the governor financed by some wealthy donors.
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*The news conference announcement is at about minute 30 of:
https://archive.org/details/newsom-1-4-21/newsom+1-11-21.mp4
**https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/?mc_cid=50843ce8ec&mc_eid=cd8ca92ba1#vaccinations
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