The Long Beach Department of Public Health gave the university 1,170 doses for the first round of vaccinations that began Tuesday.
“Because of our size and the fact that we have health care providers here on campus, this could be a vaccination site to take care of the city within a city if you want from the state of Long Beach,” said Officer Jeff Cook head of communication for CSULB.
The university uses public health guidelines to determine who will receive the first vaccine, starting with those currently working on campus.
“We will then move on to the older ones, who may be in high-risk conditions, and ultimately our hope, of course, is to get down to the rest of our employees and our students.”
Matt Evans, a member of the IT staff on campus, said he was grateful for the vaccination earlier.
“You know it’s great because everyone else is having a hard time getting it,” Evans said.
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia says that while the start of immunizations is encouraging for the reopening of personal classes in the fall, he says the university still needs thousands of additional doses to vaccinate the more than 6,000 faculties on campus.
“The big problem right now is supply, so we only need federals to get more vaccines to states and cities. Obviously, I didn’t have many plans a few months ago. Things are improving a bit now, but I expect vaccine deliveries to start running across the country in the next few weeks, “Garcia said.
Cal State Long Beach is what is called a “closed capsule”, so only university employees and students will receive the COVID vaccine.
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