. >> reporter: chief snipes says there's been an uptic in hospital wait times and only expectatize to get worst. she and dr. kumar urging people to stay home. >> let's just really do our best to keep covid in check and we know how to do that. >>> state and health officials are gearing up to receive the ninety-first delivery of moderna's coronavirus vaccine. more than 6,000 doses are set to rive in california this week. boxes of the vaccine were lolled up on fed ex and shipped around the states. priority for the vaccine will be given to nursing homes and healthcare workers. a cdcpen is recommending that other essential workers will be next in line. those workers include teachers, firefighters and grocery store workers. >>> more than 73,000 californians have already received the vaccine. 55,000 shots have been administered nationwide. so far, 2.8 million doses of the pfizer vaccine has been distributed than the cronet. >>> california is keeping than eye out for a new strain of the coronavirus in the uk. so far, there's no evidence that it's here in california. >> the way i like to to th