“We do need to work harder to ensure that there’s good information and easy access to vaccinations for our younger people,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said.
sites on June 6 — which are located at the Anaheim Convention Center, O.C. Fair & Event Center, Soka University and Santa Ana College — after demand for first doses has dropped by more than 75% since the end of April.
By moving vaccine supply into smaller vaccine clinics, “we can be in more areas and reach more different segments of county residents,” Orange County Executive Officer Frank Kim said at a news briefing. “The time is right for us to go mobile and be more geographically diverse.”The city of Los Angeles last week announced that its mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium willState epidemiologist Dr.
“All we can do is continue to answer your questions and provide good information, and ask you to talk to other people you know that have gotten vaccinated, and hear from them why they ended up making that choice,” she said. Across California’s most populated counties, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties have led the state in vaccination rates, with more than 60% of residents receiving at least one dose.Coastal counties are among the highest rates of vaccination in Southern California, with L.A. County reporting 48% of residents receiving at least one dose; nearly 50% have received a shot in Orange, Ventura and Santa Barbara.
California counties with the worst rates of vaccination are largely in the Central Valley and the rural northern section of the state. For instance, just north of L.A. County, Kern County has reported just 33% of its residents at least partially vaccinated, and it’s worse in Kings County farther north, with just 26% of residents at least partially vaccinated.
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