After being in the spotlight for months of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to try repeatedly reopen the gates to the Magic Kingdom, Disneyland finally lets in Californians … but not to take a ride On Haunted house or enjoy a green milk Bee Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
Orange County Officials have confirmed that the Anaheim Theme Park will become one of the county’s first Point-Of-Dispensing (POD) sites to distribute covid-19 vaccines. Unlike its sister resort in Orlando, Florida, Disney World, it is Disneyland in California closed since then March due to lockout commands for the coronavirus (outside a limited reopening from the Downtown Disney shopping area adjacent to the parks, which has been open to guests since July). Disney World controversially reopened in July and is currently host for guests as well as a state-run covid-19 testing facility.
Disneyland will be one of five “Super POD” locations in Orange County, said to have the capacity to distribute thousands of doses of vaccine to humans every day, and is expected to become operational later this week.
“Disneyland Resort is proud to support Orange County and the City of Anaheim in the use of our property, and we are grateful for all their efforts to combat COVID-19,” said Dr. Pamela Hymel, the Chief Medical Officer of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products ABC7 news. “After a year in which so many in our community have faced unprecedented hardship and uncertainty, there is now cause for optimism in the administration of a vaccine.”
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It’s been a strange journey to get to the quasi-reopening of Disneyland here (no, they probably won’t let you go on space mountain after your shot, unfortunately). The famous theme park has been at the forefront of California to reopen the economic damage the ongoing pandemic has triggered the region, as has the relative success of Disney World’s controlled reopening in FlorID carda, as an incentive for the happiest place on earth to start serving guests again. But state health officials have steadfastly adhered to strict guidelines for theme parks, Disneyland or otherwise, to open even with severely reduced capacity – guidelines that have yet to be put into practice, given Orange County guidelines. current covid case numbers.
Even if the park cannot be opened to guests yet, helping distribute coronavirus vaccinations is infinitely more useful than access to Splash Mountain and churros is now.
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