“From a public health perspective, we should have gone in with surge teams to ZIP codes that were hardest hit (by the coronavirus) and just say, ‘Anybody in this ZIP code gets a vaccine,’ ” Garcetti said during an online interview with Harvard University's T.H. “And we could of — I think — really prevented a lot of deaths.”Garcetti and Newsom are fellow Democrats and close friends. Garcetti said he had joined other mayors in urging President Joe Biden’s administration to give vaccines directly to cities. But yet we still have to go through three layers of bureaucracy before we get our vaccines. Paul Markovich, president and CEO of Blue Shield of California, said Friday that 38 of 61 local health jurisdictions have switched to the state's online appointment portal called My Turn.

Source: ABC News March 19, 2021 23:01 UTC