The Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti revealed that LA would prioritize the dosages of the coronavirus vaccine from this week at the sites designated to it.
People who got the first dosages at Los Angeles-run venues in the third week of January 2021 have scheduled their appointments for the current week.
The mayor said that Los Angeles has the infrastructure, determination, and tools to vaccinate the natives safely and quickly, but the city requires more dosages. The demographics and density of LA have made it to be the central point of the crisis recently. It is possible to vaccinate more people, reduce infection rates, death toll, and hospitalization rates, as well as defeat the epidemic all with a consistent and reliable vaccine supply.
Some of the LA-run venues are Dodger Stadium, San Fernando Park, Hansen Dam, Lincoln Park, and Crenshaw Christian Center.
Seekers of the first dosages can schedule their appointments for those doses at the new site housed at LA Pierce College. The educational institute would distribute 4,600 out of the US city’s 58,000 dosages this week.
When LA’s officials have demanded more vaccine supplies, the sites in this city had to be closed down after February 11, 2021, as these used up the existing supply.
On February 10, 2021, the city’s mayor underlined the need for further vaccine doses. He said it is known that other US cities having smaller populations get more dosages as compared to the whole nation with a much bigger population.
Los Angeles County-run venues also started prioritizing the second dosages in February second week, but would not administer the first ones at the county’s eight sites.