Like Los Angeles County as a whole, city officials say they will initially focus on education and outreach to bring facilities into compliance.
requiring proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to enter indoor restaurants, shopping centers, movie theaters, hair and nail salons, coffee shops, gyms, museums, bowling alleys, performance venues and other spaces.
The two most commonly administered vaccines, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, require two doses, given weeks apart. A third offering, from Johnson & Johnson, entails only one shot.Visits to businesses by L.A. County health inspectors Oct. 8-10 were focused primarily on education rather than heavy-handed enforcement.
Though it’s early, it appears many businesses are already toeing the line. From Oct. 16 to 22, county public health inspectors visited 78 bars and found 85% of them were following the requirement to verify customers’ vaccination status. The next chapter of the push to boost COVID-19 vaccinations rates started Wednesday, as children ages 5 to 11 began rolling up their sleeves — a long-awaited new phase of the inoculation campaign.
Given that the first young Angelenos were able to roll up their sleeves only a day ago, it’s impossible for any of them to be considered fully vaccinated by the time the city requirements kick in Monday.
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