LA County will not reach full immunization until summer 2022 at current rate, Garcetti says

LOS ANGELES (KABC) – At the current rate, vaccinations for the entire population of Los Angeles County will not be completed until June 2022, according to Mayor Eric Garcetti.

The mayor says the bleak outlook boils down to a problem of supply and demand.

“If you take the math of what the county receives each week – around 160,000 – and just look at the number of healthcare workers and seniors, we won’t go through them until June (2021).” , did he declare.

However, Garcetti stresses that the pace will not stay the same, especially if other COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, which only require a single dose, are allowed to be used.

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At the Dodger Stadium vaccination site, up to 12,000 doses can be administered per day. But a week after the parking lot transitioned from a test site stadium to a super vaccination site, only 2,000 doses are available per day.

Despite supply limitations, more than 46,000 people have been vaccinated this week at the city’s five vaccination sites, which is a 90% increase from last week. More than 80,000 people have been vaccinated at the city’s vaccination sites.

Five-hour wait times have been reported at Dodger Stadium as eligible Angelenos flock to the country’s largest capacity vaccination site.

Officials say extensive planning was required to keep the location running smoothly and efficiently, but there are distribution issues at the site.

Several people said they waited until five a.m. Wednesday to get the vaccine. The AIR7 HD was over the location as a handful of cars remained online at 11 p.m. – three hours after the site officially closed.

However, by Thursday afternoon wait times had improved significantly.

Meanwhile, by the end of Friday, the city of Los Angeles will have finished offering COVID-19 vaccines to all residents of qualified nursing care facilities.

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The mayor said that at the start of the pandemic, 45% of coronavirus deaths were among vulnerable residents of these establishments.

“Too many people are still dying, and with more contagious variants of COVID-19 taking root that may explain why we had such an outbreak in December, there is no more urgent task than to get this site and d ‘other similar sites to continue vaccinating our residents,’ Garcetti said.