On Friday, L.A. County Health Services embarked on a mass COVID-19 vaccination effort that will result in 6,000 vaccinations by Christmas and 10,000 total vaccinations by Dec. 31 for its frontline healthcare workers. The vaccinations are initially taking place at three of the four county hospitals: LAC+USC Medical Center, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, and Harbor-UCLA…
With the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) expected to issue an emergency use authorization for Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, Los Angeles County public health officials have announced their plan to distribute initial allotments of the immunization. The county is looking at a complex logistical process to vaccinate residents, some of which have expressed hesitancy. A survey…
By Terry Miller Oscar-winner Sean Penn’s nonprofit group, Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), that runs the COVID-19 testing site at Dodger Stadium hopes to increase testing capacity there and get it ready for vaccine distribution, according to a local news report for KABC. The first COVID-19 vaccine, from Pfizer, appeared before a U.S. Food and…
