Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced on Wednesday that five of the COVID-19 vaccine sites – Including Dodger Stadium – will close Friday and Saturday due to a lack of supplies, reports CBS Los Angeles.
“We are vaccinating people faster than new vials are arriving here in Los Angeles,” he said at a news conference on Wednesday night. “And I am very concerned now. I am concerned, as your mayor, that our supply of vaccine is uneven, unpredictable and often unfair.”
He said that by Thursday, the city will have exhausted its stock of Modern Vaccines for the first doses, requesting the closure of non-mobile vaccination sites.
“We will not have these vaccines because the supply is not available,” said Garcetti. “As soon as we get more supplies, and I would love a call tonight or tomorrow from some state or national source saying that we found some more, but most likely, hopefully Tuesday or Wednesday, we will start the business again.”
The mayor also announced that the five vaccination sites administered by Los Angeles administered 98% of the doses the city received and, on average, about 13,051 doses per day, with a total of 293,252 doses administered so far.
About that, Johnson & Johnson applied for emergency FDA approval for its one-dose COVID vaccine, becoming the third COVID-19 vaccine to be made available to the public in the United States. Federal regulators are scheduled to review the company’s clinical trial data on February 26.
On February 10, 33.8 million Americans received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, while 10.5 million received both doses, according to CDC data.