There’s been an ebb and flow of vaccines in the Bay Area, and shots are now flowing again at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
The mass vaccination clinic was shut down for about a week because there was not enough supply to keep it going, in part because of the severe winter weather in other parts of the country that interrupted vaccine shipments.
San Franciscans began returning to Moscone Thursday morning for the shots.
“I feel very relieved, glad to have gotten it done," said Tobin, who works in a grocery store in Cole Valley and got his first shot on Thursday. "I work with the public so I’ve been, you know, pretty nervous the last 10 months or so."
Anna also got a shot and said the moment was a bit anticlimactic after all of the build-up. “I don’t know what I expected but it was just like any other vaccine you would get, like a flu shot you would get somewhere. It was fine.”
The city’s public health department says the supply is still low, but Kaiser Medical Center, which is administering the shots at Moscone Center, says they have enough supply to keep the center going through Mar. 11 and are anticipating more shipments to come.
CVS and Walgreens have also begun giving out shots in the Bay Area, although only at select locations for the time being.
Supply is flowing in Gilroy again, where a new mass vaccination clinic will open at Gilroy High School on Sunday.
The clinic will target the county’s Latinx community and deliver 2,000 doses per day.
“Many of these workers have been on the frontline for the past year, risking exposure to COVID to put food on our tables, protect our health and safety and to care for our children,” said Tracy Stevens with Valley Medical Center.
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