Teachers vaccinations begin at at BCHD’s AdventurePlex in Manhattan Beach [Update]
SHARE Redondo Beach Child Development teacher Sarai Cuevas receives a COVID-19 innoculation from Manhattan Beach Firefighter Tyler Wade on Wednesday, at the Beach Cities Health District’s AdventurePlex in Manhattan Beach. Looking on are Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn and Redondo Beach Schools Superintendent Steven Keller. Photo by Kevin Cody
by Kevin Cody
Approximately 1,200 teachers at 11 South Bay public school districts began receiving Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination shots on Wednesday at AdventurePlex, in Manhattan Beach.
AdventurePlex is a children’s play facility owned by the Beach Cities Health District, which is coordinating administration of the vaccinations. Volunteer medical professionals and fire fighters administered the vaccination shots on the play facility’s indoor basketball court.
Manhattan Beach an improbable focal point for protests in 2020
SHARE In November, parents and students held a rally in Polliwog Park, calling for schools to be reopened. Photo by JP Cordero
Joe Franklin leads a May 18 rally at the Manhattan Beach City Hall of protesters demanding that businesses be allowed to reopen. In November, Franklin was elected to the city council. Photo by JP Cordero
The pandemic in Manhattan Beach was met with an uneasy mixture of community cooperation and outright defiance in a year in which the city’s conflicts would mirror the nation’s.
Manhattan Beach by year’s end will have experienced four deaths and more than 750 COVID-19 cases, a lower incidence than most of Los Angeles County and much of the United States, but by global metrics a higher incidence rate than India, Russia, and Peru. Yet the city found itself in the regional and sometimes national spotlight as the pandemic progressed, first when a surfer was fined for defying a pu