Sunday, February 2, 2025

Low vaccination rates in rural areas of California

Christian Carlos. Pen 360 Press [P360P].

The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the disease COVID-19 - first recorded, according to scientific research, in the central region of Wuhan, China - forced the World Health Organization (WHO) to establish the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020.

Since then, governments from different parts of the world have established new health security measures that, to date, have changed people's routines; in addition to biosecurity measures, people were urged to stay at home and work remotely; that is, to assume a teleworking and online classes scheme.

Even though Johns Hopkins University announced this week that California had fully advanced to 57 percent vaccination, making it one of the states with the highest vaccination rates in the U.S., California's vulnerable communities are still