Due to incomplete appointments, Cal State LA offers vaccinations for anyone 18 years and older – CBS Los Angeles

Due to incomplete appointments, Cal State LA offers vaccinations for anyone 18 years and older – CBS Los Angeles

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) A large vaccination site in Los Angeles has such excess COVID-19 vaccine doses that it allows anyone 18 years and older to step up and receive vaccination.

People are queuing up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Cal State LA site. April 7, 2021. (CBSLA)

The state’s emergency services office reported Wednesday that many Johnson & Johnson vaccine appointments at the federal Cal City LA super site will not be fulfilled.

Although only eligible people can make advanced appointments online, Cal State LA offers vaccinations to anyone over the age of 18 from now until Sunday, when the city of LA will take over the federal government’s site.

“To the extent that appointments are incomplete, there may be a limited number of appointments available for persons between 18 and 18 through Sunday when the management of the premises is transferred to the city,” said Brian Ferguson, spokesman for CAL OES. told CBSLA. in a statement Wednesday. “By injecting vaccines at the site to provide some flexibility to fill vacancies, we can expand the California vaccination rate in an efficient, effective and equitable manner.”

Vaccine access is open to anyone 50 years and older on April 1, and from April 15, anyone 16 years and older can get the vaccine in California.

Vaccination clinics have popped up all over the region, making it easier than getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

On Wednesday, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the opening of a new clinic at the Million-Dollar Theater, next to Grand Central Market, in downtown LA. .

Lakers big Kareem Abdul-Jabbar appears with Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner to encourage parents to get their vaccinations at George Washington Prep Senior High School or Abraham Lincoln Senior High in Lincoln Heights, the first of 25 LAUSD campuses which offers vaccination clinics. .

“The LA Unified School District will continue to reach out to all students and make sure everyone gets the benefit of the vaccine, because we all want to get well, we do not want to lose more people to the COVID virus,” Abdul- Jabbar said.

Other vaccine clinics were also launched Wednesday in Los Angeles City College and at the YMCA in Southeast Rio Vista, both of which require appointments.

The walk-through and walk-in clinic launched at LA City College, but future clinics – open to the general public and members of LA Care and Blue Shield Promise – will take place on select days in hard-hit places like East Los Angeles, Pacoima, Lynwood and the Antelope Valley. Appointments for the LA Care Clinic can be made at lacare.org/vaccine.

The YMCA Clinic in Southeast Rio Vista will be open until Saturday for eligible Southeast Los Angeles collaborating members located in Bell, Bell Gardens, Commerce, Cudahy, Florence-Firestone, Maywood, Huntington Park, Lynwood, South Gate, Vernon and Walnut live and work. Park. A total of 2,000 Johnson & Johnson doses are expected to be distributed across the four-day clinic.

Meanwhile, qualifying residents of Glendale and surrounding communities can get their vaccinations this Friday at a mass vaccination center at Glendale Community College. The site is managed by Jewel City Vax Clinic in partnership with the city, Glendale Community College and Adventist Health Glendale, and will have the capability to administer 10,000 vaccinations per week. Appointments on this site can be made on the State’s MyTurn website.

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