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SFHSS director briefs board on vaccine rollout; caller warns Kaiser site poses access challenges for seniors
Summary
Director Abby Yant told the Health Service System board San Francisco remains in phase 1A of the COVID-19 rollout, prioritizing health‑care workers and long‑term‑care residents, and urged continued masking; a public caller said a Kaiser vaccination location was difficult for seniors to reach.
Director Abby Yant told the San Francisco Health Service System board the city is still in phase 1A of vaccine distribution and that federal and state allocation systems — not the local health department — determine who receives doses first. She said two vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, are in use and that the Pfizer product is more challenging to manage because of cold‑storage requirements.
"The Health Department here locally does not decide who gets vaccinated first," Yant said, describing a supply flow from manufacturers to states and then…
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