So far, Governor Gavin Newsom's administration has largely failed to manage a comprehensive COVID vaccination effort for California.
It's critical to inoculate as many people as possible before new strains proliferate and mutate further, possibly rendering the available vaccines useless.
As time passes, the probability of effectively containing the pandemic diminishes. There are a number of reasons why the vaccination effort has faltered.
As the Los Angeles Times reported, "For weeks, vaccine access was limited to only health workers and nursing homes. Data snafus complicated the picture, as did the structural barriers of such a large, decentralized state that leaned heavily on 61 local health departments.