Tax Day may have been postponed until May 17, but April 15 is still a significant day for two very important reasons:
Starting today, everyone 16 and older is eligible to be vaccinated
Gatherings are once again allowed
Vaccine update
Even though the county has paused the use of the single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, at yesterday’s news conference officials said they don’t expect that to have a significant effect on the availability of appointments. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine made up a very small percentage of the vaccines available in San Diego County (less than 3%).
What will affect appointment availability is the large number of newly eligible residents. The best advice is to be patient – we’ve seen a surge of appointment demand right after each new group has become eligible, but it eventually subsides.
The city has links to many vaccine sites on our website, including the county’s site, which, in turn, has many links to the sites it runs. Even though a lot of providers have been centralized under the My Turn scheduling website, many have their own scheduling websites. So, the good news is there are lots of options; the bad news is it can be time consuming to regularly check all these sites, hoping to hit it just right to find an opening.
County officials did not provide an estimate of how many people would be newly eligible today, given that many have qualified under other criteria already.
New guidance for gatherings
