Sofi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Rams in Inglewood, California.
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The National Football League has told President Joe Biden that it is making all 30 of its stadiums available as mass coronavirus vaccination sites to the general public.
Seven NFL teams are already offering vaccinations for Covid-19 in or near their stadiums.
“The NFL and our 32 member clubs are committed to doing our part to ensure that vaccines are available as widely as possible in our communities,” league commissioner Roger Goodell wrote in a letter to Biden on Thursday.
“We can increase our efforts to expand stadiums more effectively because many of our clubs have offered their facilities as COVID testing centers as well as election venues over the past few months,” Goodell wrote.
His letter said each NFL team will coordinate with local, state, and federal health officials about the vaccination efforts in the stadiums.
This has already happened in San Francisco, where the 49ers team and Santa Clara County announced Friday that Levi’s Stadium will begin next week as a vaccination site for locals.
The team said the stadium will be the largest vaccination site in California, with an initial capacity of 5,000 people receiving shots per day, and plans to increase it to 15,000 people each day as vaccine supplies rise.
Goodell noted that the NFL will have 7,500 vaccinated health workers from across the country as guests during the Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The commissioner said the workers were invited “in gratitude for their heroic service and for emphasizing the importance of vaccinations while our country recovers from the pandemic.”
The NFL referred questions to the White House when contacted by CNBC. The Biden administration did not immediately comment.
The league’s current vaccination centers are hosted by the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers, Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots.
A number of professional baseball stadiums across the United States are also already offering Covid vaccines to the public.
Friday, a temporary mass vaccination site opened at Yankee Stadium in Bronx New York City.
Another site in the Mets home in Citi Field in Queens was to be shot in late January. But the opening was postponed because the city did not have enough vaccines.
Los Angeles turned Dodger Stadium into a mass vaccination room in January after serving as a mass test site for Covid for eight months.
CNBC’s Noah Higgins-Dunn contributed to this report.
Correction: The NFL has 30 stadiums. An earlier version misplaced the number.