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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County will partner with employers, business chambers and other groups to help host large-scale vaccination events by providing vaccines and medical personnel to administer them, it was announced Friday.
Board of Supervisors Chair Nathan Fletcher, with leaders from the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce, made the announcement from the San Diego Mission Bay Resort. This new initiative to partner with employers and chambers who want to host large vaccination events is one of the many adjustments we are making to our vaccination program to make it easier for people to get the vaccine, Fletcher said. The best way to restore our economy and put San Diego on a path to recovery is for everyone to get the vaccine.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – San Diego County will partner with employers, business chambers and other groups to help host large-scale vaccination events by providing vaccines and medical personnel to administer them, it was announced Friday.
Board of Supervisors Chair Nathan Fletcher, with leaders from the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce, made the announcement from the San Diego Mission Bay Resort.
“This new initiative to partner with employers and chambers who want to host large vaccination events is one of the many adjustments we are making to our vaccination program to make it easier for people to get the vaccine,” Fletcher said. “The best way to restore our economy and put San Diego on a path to recovery is for everyone to get the vaccine.”
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Organizations looking to immunize their members against COVID-19 can now apply to have San Diego County staff run on-site vaccination clinics, local officials announced Friday.
The offer extends to businesses, nonprofits, religious groups and others capable of hosting hundreds or thousands of people. Interested organizations can visit coronavirus-sd.com/vaccine, select “Request to Host a COVID-19 Vaccination Event” and fill out when and where they’d like to hold the event. County staff will then review that information before showing up with the doses and equipment needed to run the pop-up clinic for free.
It’s the latest attempt to make getting vaccinated as easy as possible by bringing the shots to San Diegans rather than asking them to leave where they work and live.
“If you are an entity, whether you are business, a chamber of commerce or a religious institution, but you want to host a vaccine event, we now have the availability for you to apply to do that at coronavirus-sd.com/vaccine,” San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Nathan Fletcher explained. “All you have to do is go to that website, click on the ‘host a vaccination event’ button, fill out the form and one of our team members will contact you to schedule a mobile vaccination team that will come to you.”
The program was created to “make it more convenient to vaccinate employees” as the region works on administering as many vaccines as possible, a statement from Fletcher’s office said.
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