Coachella announces dates for its post-pandemic return to California desert
By rolling | June 2, 2021 |
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Photo credit: Bang Media)
Coachella will return in April 2022.
The world-famous festival which was meant to take place in April and its sister festival Stagecoach were postponed this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the organizers have confirmed that the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will welcome back festival-goers in the desert at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, across the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-23, 2022.
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Coachella, Stagecoach music festivals announce 2022 dates
By Mary Stringini article
Festivalgoers are seen during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 21, 2019 in Indio, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for Coachella)
INDIO, Calif. - After having to postpone their music festivals numerous times due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Coachella and Stagecoach officials on Tuesday announced the dates of their 2022 music festivals.
Coachella will be held two weekends in April 2022, with weekend one being held on the 15th through 17th, and weekend two scheduled for the 22nd through 24th. Presale for tickets begins Friday, June 4 at 10 a.m. and presale registration is already open on coachella.com.
A Dozen Counties Criticized OptumServe for Vaccine Clinic Problems, Documents Show
California agreed to pay OptumServe up to $221 million during the pandemic to coordinate and operate dozens of vaccination sites.
But the health care company’s work in at least a dozen counties has been plagued by miscommunication and staffing shortages.
Officials from at least 12 counties complained to the state Department of Public Health about delays and other problems with OptumServe, saying that the problems hampered their ability to get shots into arms, according to state documents obtained through a Public Records Act request.
The company has fallen far short of the up to 100,000 daily vaccine doses it told the state in its contracts that it could deliver. It has helped administer about 370,000 doses since January just 1.1% of California’s nearly 34 million during that span. At several vaccine sites, OptumServe failed to deliver the minimum 420 doses it pledged to distribute each day