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California logs record-breaking week of COVID-19 vaccinations

Cristina Vasquez receives a COVID-19 vaccine from physician assistant’s Alyssa Hernandez in Vernon on March 17, 2021. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

In a sign that the state’s uneven COVID-19 vaccine rollout is significantly ramping up, nearly 1 million Californians have gotten a shot in the past two days, data show.

The last four days have seen the four highest single-day totals of vaccines administered to date, according to data compiled by The Times.


That record-setting run includes 464,249 doses reported Tuesday — an all-time high — and 400,360 on Wednesday, the second-largest daily total.

It took roughly 2½ months — from when the first vaccines arrived in mid-December until early March — for 10 million doses to be administered statewide. In the two-week period following that milestone, providers have given more than 3 million additional shots.

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