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COVID-19 VACCINE INFORMATION PORTAL |
COVID-19 Vaccine Portal
COVID-19 Vaccines are available in Plumas County at all Pharmacies and most healthcare facilities. The easiest way to find a vaccine center nearest you is via California's MyTurn Platform.
On this page you can find the following information:
- How to get a COVID-19 Vaccine in Plumas County
- Current Recommendations for COVID-19 Vaccines
- COVID-19 Vaccination Data for Plumas County
- Information regarding COVID-19 Vaccines
Scroll down for more information.
Vaccination Data
Click to see the state's vaccination data by county, including Plumas County
How to get a COVID-19 Vaccine in Plumas County |
Plumas County Public Health Agency
Click for California's MyTurn website for local clinics. PCPHA will vaccinate for Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax as well as updated boosters for Pfizer and Moderna (bivalent). Call clinic for appointment 530-283-6330.
PCPHA does not offer "Additional Doses nor boosters for the Immune Compromised." Please see your primary care provider if you are interested in an additional dose and qualify only due to your immune compromised state. For more information on additional doses, please click here.
Health Care Facilities
Eastern Plumas Health Care: (530) 832-6600
Plumas District Hospital: (530) 283-5640
Seneca Healthcare District: (530) 258-2151 ext 1047
The following local Pharmacies are also offering COVID-19 Vaccinations:
Lassen Drug - Chester, CA (530) 258-2261
RiteAid - Quincy, CA (530) 283-1809
Quincy Pharmacy - Quincy, CA (530) 283-4545
Portola Village Pharmacy - Portola, CA (530) 832-4218
Check the MyTurn platform on a regular basis for open clinics.
Call the CA COVID-19 Hotline at 1-833-422-4255
(M-F 8AM-8PM, Sat.-Sun. 8AM-5PM) for assistance with MyTurn.
Current Recommendations for COVID-19 Vaccines |
Who is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine right now?
Currently, in Plumas County, anyone 6 months* and older is eligible for vaccination.
What You Need to Know
- CDC recommends everyone stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccination, including all primary series doses and boosters for their age group:
- People ages 6 months through 4 years should get all COVID-19 primary series doses.
- People ages 5 years and older should get all primary series doses, and the booster dose recommended for them by CDC, if eligible.
- People ages 5 to 11 years are recommended to get the original (monovalent) booster.
- People 12 years and older are recommended to receive one updated Pfizer or Moderna (bivalent) booster.
- This includes people who have received all primary series doses and previously received one or more original (monovalent) boosters.
- At this time, people aged 12 years to 17 years can only receive the updated Pfizer bivalent booster.
- Getting a COVID-19 vaccine after you recover from COVID-19 infection provides added protection against COVID-19.
- People who are moderately or severely immunocompromised have different recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, including boosters.
- COVID-19 vaccine and booster recommendations may be updated as CDC continues to monitor the latest data.
Additional COVID-19 VACCINE Information |
FDA Timeline and Documentation of COVID-19 Vaccines
Below you'll be able to learn more about the process of approval for the COVID-19 vaccines by the FDA. Each link has fact sheets for each of the vaccines as well.
Learn more about the FDA’s EUA process for the Novavax vaccine
Learn more about the FDA’s EUA process for the Pfizer vaccine
Learn more about the FDA's EUA process for the Moderna vaccine
Learn more about the FDA's EUA process for the Janssen vaccine
What is the difference between the COVID-19 Vaccines? Click here.
As of December 16, 2021, CDC recommends mRNA vaccine are preferred over Johnson & Johnson vaccine, click here for more information.
- I already had Covid, so why would I need the vaccine?
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Vaccination is recommended for people who have had COVID because scientific studies show that the immunity from vaccination is stronger and lasts longer than the immunity from having the disease. Vaccination also appears to give more protection against new variants of the virus.
- Will the vaccine protect me against variant strains of the coronavirus?
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Getting fully vaccinated with either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines is your best protection against severe COVID, hospitalization, and death from all strains of the virus. In fact, being vaccinated helps stop the virus from developing new strains. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine appears to be less effective against new variants and we no longer recommend it for most people.
- Are there important differences between vaccines?
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The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are made with similar technology and provide similar high levels of protection against COVID. These vaccines require two doses several weeks apart.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is made with older technology and was designed to require only one dose. Recent studies suggest it is less effective against new strains of the coronavirus. Rare, but potentially serious, side effects have also been linked to this vaccine. For this reason, the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine is recommended for most people.
- How do we know the vaccine is safe and effective?
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The Covid-19 vaccines available in the United States have been tested in clinical studies of tens of thousands of people and in real-world observational studies of millions of people. We know from these studies that the available vaccines are almost 100% effective in preventing hospitalization and death from Covid, and that they are also highly effective in preventing most Covid disease and new infections.
The safety and effectiveness of the vaccines is constantly being evaluated. But it’s already clear, after 100s of millions of doses, that it’s far safer to be vaccinated than to risk getting Covid, which can be deadly even to young people.
- I read the vaccine is 95% effective. Does that mean there is still a 5% chance I could get Covid?
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No. It means that the risk of getting sick from Covid is 95% lower for a vaccinated person compared to an unvaccinated person. The actual risk depends on where you live and the kind of things you do, but for a fully vaccinated person it is much less than 5%.
- I am fully vaccinated. Do I need a booster shot?
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Yes. Boosters are now recommended after 6 months for all fully-vaccinated people 16 and older. This is because the vaccines' protection appears to decrease over time, especially for new coronavirus variants.
- What do we know about side effects?
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When questions come up about illnesses that might be vaccine related, they are investigated and the public is given detailed information about the risks of taking the vaccine compared to the risks of getting COVID-19.
The most common side effects are similar to the ones many people have from other vaccines: pain or tenderness at the site of the shot and tiredness and flu-like symptoms about a day later.
Some people have developed severe allergic reactions after getting a Covid-19 vaccine. These reactions are rare (less than 5 per million). For your safety, you will be asked about your history of allergy before you are given a vaccine and you will be observed for up to 30 minutes afterward to be sure you are okay. In the unlikely event that you do have a reaction, emergency medical providers will be on site to treat you immediately.
So far, no other serious side effects have been definitively linked to the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines.
A small number of children and adolescents who got Pfizer or Moderna vaccines have developed inflammations of the heart. This condition is very rare and is still under investigation, but it does not appear to be more common in vaccinated people. Blood clots have been found in some women under age 50 who were given the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The risk of developing this condition as a result of COVID is greater than the risk associated with vaccination, but in the interest of safety, we no longer recommend the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for women younger than 50.
- I have doubts about the Covid vaccines because they were developed so quickly.
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It’s true that these vaccines were developed a lot more quickly than traditional vaccines, but the development wasn’t rushed. Several factors made it possible. Scientists already knew a lot about coronaviruses because they cause other diseases. They also started working on the mRNA technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines more than 10 years ago with the goal of using it to develop vaccines for new diseases quickly in an emergency. Once the COVID vaccines were developed, researchers went through all the usual steps of testing them but saved time by doing them in parallel instead of one after the other.
- I read the vaccine is 95% effective. Does that mean there is still a 5% chance I could get Covid?
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No. It means that the risk of getting sick from COVID is 95% lower for a vaccinated person compared to an unvaccinated person. The actual risk depends on where you live and the kind of things you do, but for a fully vaccinated person, it is much less than 5%.
Have more questions? Check out our FAQ page!
Click here for the page!Minor Consent Forms
This consent form should be use if the individual receiving a COVID-19 vaccine is under the age of consent. Click for a downloadable PDF: