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With demand for COVID-19 vaccines waning, California officials are closing some mass vaccination sites while doubling down on efforts to get the reluctant inoculated.
Orange County announced it will close its four biggest vaccination centers in early June, and the city of Los Angeles will shut down the vaccine site at Dodger Stadium, one of the biggest in the country, at the end of May.
Los Angeles County has four other mass vaccination sites, and they will remain open for the foreseeable future. Officials said they may want to continue using them to vaccinate youths ages 12 to 15 if the Pfizer vaccine is authorized for that group as early as next week.
By City News Service
Published May 4, 2021
In this June 5, 2020, file photo, Los Angeles police chief Michel Moore (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
With only about 40% of the Los Angeles Police Department fully vaccinated, Chief Michel Moore told the city’s Police Commission today that the vaccination effort has “slowed dramatically,” with only six additional employees receiving a first dose in the last week.
Just over 50% of the department, or 6,272 employees, have received a first dose of the vaccine and 40% are fully vaccinated, Moore said. An additional 118 police personnel received their second dose in the last week.
Los Angeles County is experiencing a similar slowdown in vaccinations overall, which L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer called “very worrisome” last week.
By City News Service
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - While Los Angeles County will wait until tomorrow to loosen business restrictions in accordance with its move into the least-restrictive yellow tier of the state s economic-reopening blueprint, Pasadena and Long Beach enacted eased guidelines today, including the reopening of indoor bars.
Weekly statistics released by the state Tuesday showed the county s rate of daily new COVID-19 infections had fallen to 1.6 per 100,000 residents, down from 1.9 last week. Reaching the yellow tier of the state s Blueprint for a Safer Economy requires a county to have a new-case rate less than 2 per 100,000 residents, and maintain that level for two consecutive weeks.