Vaccinations resume at Golden Gate Fields after temporary shutdown due to horse racing protest
Appointments at the Golden Gate Fields vaccination site were stalled for about three hours due to the presence of animal rights protesters.
Police vehicles at the Golden Gate Fields vaccination site shutting down the entrance due to an animal rights protest. Photo: Maksim Ioffe
Update: 3:48 p.m. Up to 200 people who had COVID-19 vaccine appointments Thursday may not receive their doses due to the delay caused by the protest, city spokesperson Matthai Chakko said.
Additional Albany and Berkeley firefighters and city staff are responding to the site to vaccinate as many people as possible, but they may not be able to vaccinate everyone who was scheduled today. He said the site will likely not extend its hours for the day.
Hundreds of vaccine appointments canceled at Golden Gate Fields following protest
By Aja Seldon and Duncan Sinfield
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Animal rights protest delays vaccine clinic, hundreds of appointments canceled
Four Bay Area residents lay on the track at Golden Gate Fields Thursday afternoon to stop racing and to shut down Golden Gate Fields forever, according to Direct Action Everywhere, an animal advocacy group. But the protest delayed a vaccine clinic at the site where hundreds of appointments were canceled.
BERKELEY, Calif. - An East Bay vaccination clinic was evacuated on Thursday and now there is an argument over blame.
An estimated 200 doses were missed at Golden Gate Fields, where a drive-thru clinic operates in the north parking lot.
Berkeley and Albany police on Thursday were called to a protest at Golden Gate Fields calling for the track to be closed that temporarily shut down a nearby COVID vaccination site. Juliette Goodrich reports. (3-4-21)