COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic for Seniors Draws Hundreds to Inland Empire

LAKE ELSINORE (KABC) – Before sunrise, a line of cars rolled down a street on Lake Elsinore in front of the Diamond Stadium.

The site is a great vaccination clinic exclusively for people 65 and over.

David Hollingsworth, 84, waited an hour before being shot on covid-19.

“I can’t wait to get the second one so we’re done. I want to get on a plane, come home and visit my son and his kids in Connecticut,” Hollingsworth said.

While he was dating, there were many who hadn’t.

James Kennedy, 87, came up with just one newspaper article about the vaccination clinic.

“I am diabetic. I just took my insulin injection. I had two open heart surgeries. I don’t know about an appointment. No one has ever said anything about an appointment,” he said. Kennedy said.

He was not alone.

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Many seniors online cited lack of technological knowledge or even a home computer for confusion as well as long wait times on the phone.

“I had to call 20 different phone numbers that we called directly from the California state health department and they gave us Riverside but no one answered the phone,” said Jay Adams of Murrieta.

Earlier this week, Riverside County made 5,600 vaccine appointments available to its senior population, which were quickly accommodated.

“What we want to do is help people, we don’t want to fire them, but it is so important that people follow protocol in getting these appointments,” John Welsh, Riverside County public spokesperson.

In the end, county officials didn’t turn down the elderly for lack of appointments.

The relief of the gesture was evident.

Riverside County is pushing the public because of the limited number of vaccines people need to schedule. They plan to vaccinate around 700 to 800 people in Lake Elsinore on Saturday.