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Error with California’s vaccination website let ineligible Bay Area residents register for shots - San Francisco Chronicle

Error with California’s vaccination website let ineligible Bay Area residents register for shots - San Francisco Chronicle

Error with California’s vaccination website let ineligible Bay Area residents register for shots - San Francisco Chronicle
Jan 14, 2021 1 min, 21 secs

Amid California’s chaotic vaccine rollout, rumors started swirling Monday that Bay Area vaccination centers had extra doses that needed to be used quickly, so anyone — not just health care workers — could get vaccinated in Alameda or Santa Clara counties with a specific registration link.

Public health officials said they don’t know the origin of the links that allowed people to dodge screening questions.

They double masked, drove from Redwood City to Castro Valley and got in line, before a worker told them the Calvax website should have noted that only health workers should register, Sandy said.

On Wednesday, a new line appeared at the top of the Calvax registration page stating vaccines are only available for those in the state’s phase 1A, which only includes health care workers and long-term care residents.

A spokesperson with the California Department of Public Health said the state doesn’t track the eligibility of people who sign up for vaccine appointments.

The Morses feared the vaccines they signed up to take got thrown out, but Neetu Balram of the Alameda County Public Health Department said no vaccines are wasted.

Janet Levy, general manager at Oakland restaurant Hopscotch, was surprised when she got an email from her boss Monday saying food workers could get vaccines.

Jenny Schwarz, co-owner of Hopscotch as well as Nido’s Backyard in Oakland, said the link “went viral” among Bay Area restaurant workers.

She’s concerned restaurant workers who were already skeptical about the vaccine will now be even less inclined to sign up when the time comes.

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