The Department of Public Health in Long Beach gave the university 1,170 doses for the first round of vaccinations that began Tuesday.
“Because of our size and the fact that we have healthcare providers here on campus, it can be a vaccination site to care for the city within a city if you want in the state of Long Beach,” said Jeff Cook, head of communications for CSULB .
The university uses public health guidelines to determine who will get the vaccination first, starting with those currently working on campus.
“We then go to those who are older and with high risk, and ultimately our hope, of course, is to move down through the rest of our employees and to our students.”
Matt Evans, a member of the IT staff on campus, said he was grateful he had received a vaccine earlier.
“Pretty amazing, you know, because everyone’s struggling to get it,” Evans said.
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia says while the onset of vaccinations is encouraging for the reopening of personal classes this fall, he says the university still needs thousands of doses to vaccinate the more than 6,000 faculties on campus.
“The big problem right now is supply, so we just need the feds to bring more vaccines to the states and to the cities. Clearly, we did not have much in mind a few months ago. Things are happening now.” ‘a little better., but I expect the delivery of vaccines to start spreading across the country in the next few weeks,’ Garcia said.
Cal State Long Beach is called a ‘closed pool’, so only university workers and students receive the COVID vaccine.
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