Vaccine Distribution
Updated
Published
February 10, 2021 5:15 PM
Cars line up late last month for vaccine appointments at Dodger Stadium. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti says the city is expected to exhaust its current supply of the Moderna vaccine for first-dose appointments by tomorrow. That s why the city will have to temporarily close Dodger Stadium and the other four non-mobile vaccination sites on Friday and Saturday.
Here s the Mayor speaking during his briefing tonight: This is not where I want to be. It s not where we deserve to be. And we have firefighters, we have workers from core, we have clinicians, ready to draw vaccines, ready to give vaccines, ready to welcome traffic in and out by car by foot into our centers, but we won t have those vaccines because the supply, isn t there.
Vaccine Distribution
Updated
Published
February 10, 2021 5:15 PM
Cars line up late last month for vaccine appointments at Dodger Stadium. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti says the city is expected to exhaust its current supply of the Moderna vaccine for first-dose appointments by tomorrow. That s why the city will have to temporarily close Dodger Stadium and the other four non-mobile vaccination sites on Friday and Saturday.
Here s the Mayor speaking during his briefing tonight: This is not where I want to be. It s not where we deserve to be. And we have firefighters, we have workers from core, we have clinicians, ready to draw vaccines, ready to give vaccines, ready to welcome traffic in and out by car by foot into our centers, but we won t have those vaccines because the supply, isn t there.
Brookdale Senior Living, which operates more than 700 retirement communities and assisted living facilities in the U.S., said in a statement that it was taking the COVID-19 situation extremely seriously, adding that safety is the company s top priority. We are diligently monitoring our residents and associates for signs and symptoms, and we continue to work directly with local health officials to help ensure our residents and associates have the appropriate and necessary medical support, the company said.
Brookdale Napa is one of about 50 assisted living, senior care and skilled nursing facilities in the county, according to a Napa County spokeswoman. As of Feb. 1, outbreaks have been confirmed at 13 of them.
After abuse probe, another Sequel-run program that housed California youth will close Joaquin Palomino and Sara Tiano and Cynthia Dizikes
One of the nation’s largest youth residential treatment programs is shutting down after California officials, prompted by a Chronicle and Imprint investigation into rampant abuse allegations, decided to stop sending vulnerable children there.
The closure of Clarinda Academy the flagship facility of Sequel Youth & Family Services, a for-profit company based in Alabama marks the second Sequel campus to shut down in as many weeks.
Leaders of Sequel said in a statement Monday that they had conducted a “review” of Clarinda’s residential program in southwest Iowa for children with behavioral and emotional problems, before deciding to end the decades-long contract. Late last month, Normative Services, a Sequel-run program in Wyoming where children reported being choked, dragged on the ground and threatened by staff members