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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - With eligibility for COVID-19 vaccinations expanding to everyone age 16 and over in Los Angeles County and the rest of California, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared April 15 was “not Tax Day, it s Vax Day.
Some local jurisdictions, including the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach, had already been offering vaccinations to people 16 and over, but Los Angeles County waited until Thursday the date officially set by the state for the expansion.
According to county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, there are an estimated 5 million people in the newly eligible group aged 16-49 in Los Angeles County, but about 1.5 million of them have already received at least one shot because they were eligible in other categories.
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By midnight, everyone in California ages 16 and up will be eligible to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments on the state’s MyTurn appointment system.
The changes to the system were expected to go into effect sometime late Wednesday and be completed before midnight. At that point, the rest of California’s counties will join the rest of the state in allowing all adults, as well as 16- and 17-year-olds, to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments.
In Southern California, residents of Orange and Ventura counties ages 16 and up will be newly eligible to book vaccine appointments through MyTurn. Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Imperial counties have already made everyone 16 and older eligible.