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After days searching online and many false leads, Hamilton finally found a pharmacy over an hour away in Palmdale with pediatric doses. She called to make sure they actually had the shots and accepted MediCal, her son’s government insurance. After being assured of both, they made the hour-long drive. But when they arrived, the pharmacist couldn’t give Jimmy the shot because he was under 18 years old. Hamilton called MediCal to clarify.
She was directed to a California-run website that was supposed to show Vaccines For Children providers across the state.was down and that “IT was working on it.” No one from CDPH offered to help Hamilton or direct her to the provider list she needed. “A lot of pediatric practices are small businesses and this means we have to expend a lot of money up front to be able to buy these vaccines and then wait weeks or months to get that recouped,” he said.
“We’re basically holding back,” he said. “If someone asks for it, we’re providing the vaccine, but we’re not doing the level of outreach that we normally do to get people vaccinated because we don’t have enough supply yet.” “I told one of my friends that I was going to get my kids their shots and she said ‘You found pediatric vaccine? I can’t believe it,’” Hamilton said.
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