The Good Table At Home: Vaccine Resources
In Our Community
The rollout for COVID-19 vaccines hasn’t been super smooth or transparent, and if you haven’t been vaccinated already, you may be wondering how to get your shots. Here’s a very quick rundown of the potential paths to vaccination.
Check your eligibility here: myturn.ca.gov
This will also enroll you in the state’s program and notify you when you may be eligible. So stay tuned via email and text to see when it might be your turn.
Also, if you are eligible, check with your healthcare provider/health network. Several folks got their shots via the Stanford, UCSF, Sutter Health, or Kaiser Permanente websites. Note: we are linking to the main hubs for vaccines for these websites, but you’ll need an account to be eligible to sign up.
If there are no appointments close by, consider searching further out. The vaccine has been unequally distributed, with urban areas often getting fewer than they need. Please don’t do the “refresh refresh refresh” to nab an appointment in these areas (you could be taking the turn of someone who it’s meant for there) — it’s more that if they have a surplus due to over-distribution and an appointment is easy to get, take advantage of that if you are able to drive there. In this case, you’d be freeing up a shot closer to home for someone who can’t travel as far.
President Joe Biden assures us that there will be a vaccine for every adult by May 1, and that the goal is for all adults who want a vaccine to be vaccinated by July 4. So if it’s not happening for you now, don’t worry — we’ll all get there together soon.
Stay strong and we’ll see you on the other side of this.
REMINDER
We invite you to come to our next community work day on Saturday March 27th from 12p - 3p. We have a variety of gardening and cleaning projects that can be done safely while wearing masks and maintaining physical distance outside. Be sure to wear sturdy shoes, bring work gloves, and of course, wear a mask.
Taken at our last work day before the pandemic, February 2020