Orange County COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Lag Hampers Distribution Efforts

A medical worker prepares the COVID-19 vaccination after the thawing stage outside of UCI Medical Center, in Orange, Calif., on Dec. 16, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Orange County’s COVID-19 vaccine lines will likely get longer as the area struggles to obtain the stockpile it needs to increase its inoculation efforts.

“We have the bandwidth to be able to set up multiple super-pod sites, but our frustration as a county is that we don’t have any guarantee of getting significant doses of vaccines, either the Pfizer or the Moderna, into the county,” Supervisor Lisa Bartlett told The Epoch Times.