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Watch: Gavin Newsom provides COVID-19 vaccine update from Fresno

California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds up a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds up a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) AP

Gov. Gavin Newsom is visiting Fresno Wednesday morning to provide an update on California’s efforts to ramp up COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

Watch a recording of the livestream below.

The governor has been traveling around the state in the last week, visiting mass vaccination sites in San Diego and Oakland. C

California officials, including Newsom, have been criticized for a slow start to the vaccine distribution. According to the state’s dashboard, California has received 7.6 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, but has administered only 4.9 million shots.

This story was originally published February 10, 2021 at 10:55 AM.

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