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Disneyland Resort, a New Jersey mall, convention centers, and sports stadiums are opening their doors to the public as mass vaccination sites.
Here are some of the locations across the country that are shifting their focus and opening up for the public-health effort.
Sports stadiums, malls, and amusement parks are taking on a new role amid the COVID-19 pandemic they re transforming into mass vaccination sites to help in states efforts to distribute the life-saving coronavirus vaccines to as many people as possible.
Many sites have already opened and begun distributing thousands of doses per day. Other venues are still in the works as they prepare to take on the new challenge.
On an appointment-only basis, officials should be able to administer as many as 25,000 vaccine shots per week, the mayor noted.
The city s PODS are not for those who work at facilities like hospitals that are administering vaccinations themselves, Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said, but rather for practices that are smaller or are not going to be traditional vaccinating partners moving forward.
Workers that meet that criteria - Arwady listed examples including a dental practice, an outpatient practice, a school nurse, a mortician s office or any other kind of health care worker in Chicago - will first need to make sure their practice is registered with the city.
Chicago will have six mass COVID-19 vaccinations sites up and running by next week, increasing the city’s capacity to give up to 25,000 shots per week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.