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One hundred employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District received a coronavirus vaccine Wednesday as officials demanded more so that schools could reopen and as the City of Long Beach expects all employees at public elementary campuses to be vaccinated by Friday.
The small number L.A. vaccines represented a milestone the district’s first school-based vaccine clinic the new purpose for an otherwise-unused student gymnasium at Roybal Learning Center, just west of downtown. The students who would normally be using that gym were attending school online as they have since campuses shut down nearly a year ago.
L.A. schools to open vaccination site specifically for school staff By Brendan O Brien and Sharon Bernstein
FILE PHOTO: A person is vaccinated by the U.S. military in Los Angeles
(Reuters) – A COVID-19 vaccination site specifically for educators will open soon in Los Angeles County, school officials said on Wednesday, as teachers in the area’s largest school district demand vaccine access before returning to in-person learning.
The site at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, was announced a day after the county reached a threshold of fewer than 25 new cases per 100,000 people for five consecutive days. At that level, the state gives districts the discretion to resume in-person instruction for kindergarten through sixth grade if they have met other conditions.