Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that five of the cities Vaccination sites COVID-19 – inclusive Dodger Stadium – will close on Friday and Saturday due to lack of supplies, CBS Los Angeles reports.
“We vaccinate people faster than new bottles arrive here in Los Angeles,” he told a news conference Wednesday night. “And now I’m very worried. As mayor, I’m worried that our vaccine supply is uneven, unpredictable and, too often, unfair.”
He said that by Thursday, the city will run out of supplies Modern vaccines for the first doses, causing the closure of non-mobile vaccination sites.
“We will not have these vaccines because the supply is not there,” Garcetti said. “As soon as we receive more offers and I would like to call this evening or tomorrow from a national or national source, saying that we have found more, but most likely, we hope that on Tuesday or Wednesday, we will start the business again. ”
The mayor also announced that the five vaccination sites administered by Los Angeles administered 98% of the doses the city received and averaged about 13,051 doses per day, for a total of 293,252 doses administered so far. .
In the meantime, Johnson & Johnson requested emergency approval from the FDA for single dose COVID vaccine, making it the third COVID-19 vaccine to be made available to the public in US federal regulators.
As of Feb. 10, 33.8 million Americans have received at least one dose of COVID vaccine, while 10.5 million have received both doses, according to CDC data.