COVID-19 Vaccine Shots Begin at Disneyland (CA) Parking Lot

Ian Wheeler and Dan Albano The Orange County Register (MCT) Cars and socially spaced crowds amassed at Disneyland’s Toy Story parking lot Wednesday, Jan. 13, as hundreds queued for coronavirus vaccines at Orange County’s first mass-vaccination site, a pivotal step toward county leaders’ new goal of delivering 1.5 million shots per month. The tented site’s opening marks a new chapter in Orange County’s battle against the coronavirus as people age 65 and older, especially those who have underlying health conditions that might make them more susceptible to a bad case of COVID-19, can be vaccinated against the disease at the outset of the next, broader stage of the county’s vaccination campaign, called “Operation Independence.” Frontline health care workers are also still being vaccinated. The Super POD (point-of-distribution) site in Anaheim off Katella Avenue and the 5 freeway is the first of four planned to be set up around Orange County in coming weeks that are just one prong of a momentous push by public officials and private health providers to immunize enough Orange County residents to begin lifting lockdown rules and return to some semblance of normal life by July 4. “The end of COVID-19 is in sight,” Dr. Clayton Chau, OC Health Care Agency director and county health officer, said Wednesday against a backdrop of long white tents and longer lines of masked people awaiting vaccines. As Orange C...
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