Long Beach offers walk-up COVID-19 vaccine appointments for residents aged 16 and older
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LONG BEACH, Calif. - Long Beach residents aged 16 and older can immediately get vaccinated against COVID-19, with the city announcing Thursday it will offer doses on a walk-up basis at the Long Beach Convention Center.
Mayor Robert Garcia said the walk-up shots were being offered starting. Thursday and continuing Mondays through Saturdays at the convention center, for city residents only.
Mayor Robert Garcia said the walk-up shots were being offered starting Thursday and continuing Mondays through Saturdays at the convention center, for city residents only.
By City News Service
Apr 8, 2021
LONG BEACH (CNS) - Long Beach residents aged 16 and older can immediately get vaccinated against COVID-19, with the city announcing today it will offer doses on a walk-up basis at the Long Beach Convention Center.
Mayor Robert Garcia said the walk-up shots were being offered starting Thursday and continuing Mondays through Saturdays at the convention center, for city residents only.
If the vaccination site runs out of doses on any given day, people who were unable to get a shot will be immediately scheduled for a return appointment, Garcia said.
Statewide vaccine eligibility for people aged 16 and older does not technically begin until April 15. Garcia noted that online appointment scheduling for people in that age bracket will not begin until that date.
In early January, the World Health Organization first announced the emergence of a mysterious coronavirus that had been discovered in Wuhan, China, nearly 7,000 miles from Long Beach, a city basking as usual in the weeks before spring, living life as always: Shopping, dining out, attending concerts and sporting events, attending classes, gathering with friends, only barely aware of the virus and not overly concerned about it.
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From our current vantage, it’s difficult to believe life once went on like that.
For a while, it was a faraway problem. The virus was immune to distance and boundaries, though, and it stealthily traveled from person to person, country to country, aboard airplanes and cruise ships, and when it came, it came hard and changed how we live in Long Beach and throughout the world, and, in one short but ferocious year it killed more than 2.5 million people worldwide, including more than 520,000 in the United States and 857 in Long Beach.
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“Every day I’m on the phone with someone trying to convince them to not cancel and take their business to another state,” said Steve Goodling, President and CEO of the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau.