Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician and businessman who is the 40th governor of California, serving since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 49th lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019 and as the 42nd mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Editorial: CA vaccine efforts must ramp up
We are several weeks into COVID-19 vaccine distribution and the pace is woefully slow in California. Governor Gavin Newsom acknowledged Monday that only about 35% of the vaccine doses that arrived in the state have been administered so far, which he said was "not good enough." According to the Los Angeles Times, Newsom has pledged $300 million in the 2021-22 budget for vaccine distribution, but that money won't be available for months.
According to Bloomberg News, the Golden State's vaccinations lag behind every other large state, using just 28.1% of distributed doses, below the national rate of 33.1% (which isn't great either).
