Residents 16 and older can get vaccinated against COVID-19 at city-run locations in Los Angeles on Tuesday, officials said Sunday.
“Opening up the vaccine to all Angelenos aged 16 and older is an important milestone in our efforts to get more shots in more arms and defeat COVID-19 once and for all,” said Mayor Garcetti. “We insist on patience as we continue to ramp up our business, get more doses and enter this new phase of our campaign to end the pandemic. But our commitment remains clear: as soon as vaccines are available, we will be ready to administer them quickly and safely. “
Appointments for the vaccines can be made here and are open to any resident of Los Angeles County.
The city is expected to receive nearly 60,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine and 56,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week, and it still stocks about 15,000 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. The city’s vaccination sites will be able to administer more than 130,000 doses to Angelenos – including approximately 60,000 first dose appointments and 70,000 second doses – across the nine permanent sites and the Mobile Outreach for Vaccine Equity program, officials said.
The city is also taking over the activities of government officials at Cal State’s vaccine center in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Fire Department will lead the Cal State LA team, supported by Community Organized Relief Effort personnel, as well as those locally contracted to the site through FEMA.
In addition to Cal State LA, the city will deliver doses at its permanent locations in San Fernando Park, Hansen Dam, Crenshaw Christian Center, Lincoln Park, Pierce College, USC University Park, Los Angeles Southwest College, and Dodger Stadium.
All locations are open Tuesday through Saturday between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM. Dodger Stadium, which will only offer appointments Tuesday through Thursday until 1pm for home games this week, although the site remains open until 4pm.
Also on Sunday, Los Angeles County reported 546 new cases of COVID-19 and 10 additional deaths, although the lower number of deaths may be due to weekend delays.
The number of coronavirus patients in provincial hospitals fell from 492 Saturday to 470 Sunday, according to figures from the state, which are generally a day ahead of the figures provided by the county. The number of COVID patients in intensive care decreased from 125 to 116.
Sunday’s figures brought the county’s total to 1,225,796 cases and 23,477 fatalities since the pandemic began, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
On Saturday, the department reported an additional 11 cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
The new cases of MIS-C brought that total to 169 cases in the province, including one infant mortality. All 169 were hospitalized and 39% of the children were treated in the ICU. Of the children with MIS-C, 26% were under 5 years old, 31% were between 5 and 9 years old, 27% were between 10 and 14 and 16% were between 15 and 20. Latino / Latinx children accounted for 75 % of reported cases.
MIS-C is a serious inflammatory condition related to COVID-19 that affects children under the age of 21. Symptoms include a fever that does not go away and inflamed parts of the body, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs. Parents who believe their child is exhibiting MIS-C symptoms are urged to contact their primary care physician or an emergency care provider.
While we are making tremendous progress with the spread of COVID-19 in our province, there is also still great grief, ” said Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Saturday. “… April is a critical month in our COVID-19 recovery journey. In recent weeks, businesses and public spaces have reopened and many more people have been out and about. With more contact between non-household members, there are many more opportunities. transmission of COVID-19, especially if public health guidelines are not adhered to As we see in many other states, if we cannot find it in us to follow safety precautions, including wearing a face cover and distance if we are in Being around others jeopardizes our ability to move forward in the recovery process. “
Los Angeles County will see a dip in dose supply this week due to what is expected to be a temporary shortage in the availability of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson shots.
But while the decline in county-controlled supply is worrying – and ill-timed – there are still expected to be about half a million doses available in the county, thanks to other non-county or urban suppliers receiving direct allocations from the state – and federal governments.
“All told, we estimate that more than 500,000 vaccine doses will be assigned to vaccination sites across the country,” says Dr. Paul Simon, chief science officer of the county’s health department.
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The province’s vaccine allocation for next week is expected to total 323,470, Simon said. That’s a decrease of about 74,000 doses from last week, with the reduction due to a large drop in single-dose availability of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The province received about 97,000 doses of that vaccine last week, but will only receive about 20,000 this week.
Simon said the county allocation of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will both increase, but not enough to make up for Johnson & Johnson’s outage. He said he remains confident that Johnson & Johnson’s offerings will pick up in the coming weeks, and overall the county is on track to have a large portion of the adult population vaccinated by early summer.
“At the pace we go, we will be able to get where we want to be by the end of June as long as people continue to sign up for a vaccination,” said Simon. “… But over a period of several weeks as things go on – and we’ve seen this in the past when other groups just came into consideration – there’s that fuss over a period of a week or two, and there it just is. not bypass it.
“So I think we will urge the public to be patient, but we are confident that we can meet everyone’s needs in the coming weeks,” he said.
Simon also noted that when everyone 16 and older qualifies, it poses an additional challenge for those with less access to online dating sites, as a higher proportion of the population with greater computer access displaces them.
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“We are quite concerned that we are eligible … that those with fewer resources, fewer options to navigate these online appointment systems or have to deal with waiting times on our phone line, will have more difficulty getting appointments” , he said. “And that could have the unfortunate consequence of these inequalities getting worse. … And so we’re going to work very, very hard to make sure that we partner with the community organizations that serve these communities to make things a little easier for them. them to get appointments. “
On April 4, a total of 4,715,894 doses of vaccine were administered in the province, including 1,652,149 second doses. Simon noted that this number represented an increase of 702,000 in the last nine days, meaning that an average of about 78,000 doses are administered per day during that time period.