On Friday, vaccine advisers picked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declined to specifically recommend the shots but said people could make individual decisions on whether to get them. The recommendations from the advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention require sign-off by the agency's director, but they are almost always adopted. Those recommendations normally trigger several layers of insurance coverage and allow drugstores in many states to deliver the shots.
Marin health officials have launched a campaign to remove obstacles to getting a COVID-19 shot, the county's top public health officer said. We're in a full court press to reduce barriers to access to vaccines, Dr. Lisa Santora said Monday. As of Sept. 10, Marin was at the highest level of COVID-19 wastewater surveillance numbers since the summer surge of 2024, said Santora, citing data from the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services.
