OAKLAND – The Oakland Coliseum site will open on Tuesday to provide up to 6,000 vaccines per day to eligible residents.
Health care professionals, residents of qualified nursing homes and assisted living facilities, food and agriculture workers, teachers and other childcare workers, emergency service workers and all residents aged 65 and over can now apply for an appointment at the Colosseum site.
To schedule a time, people who fall into these categories can access myturn.ca.gov or call 1-833-422-4255.
People not yet qualified for a vaccine can still register on the MyTurn website to be notified when they can make an appointment.
The vaccine site will operate daily from 7 am to 7 pm
To increase access to the site, AC Transit announced that it would provide free transportation to the mass vaccination site, operating from 6 am to 8 pm daily.
A circular bus runs every 15 minutes from Coliseum BART station to the vaccination site, and those using bus lines 45, 46L, 73, 90 and 98 can connect to the vaccine bus at Coliseum BART station. Another bus runs every 20 minutes from the Eastmont Transit Center to the Colosseum BART station and then to the Colosseum vaccination site. Bus passengers on lines that include 1Q, 40, 45, 57, 73, 90, 98 and NL can also connect to the vaccine bus at the Eastmont Transit Center.
Passengers on the free bus must show their email confirming the vaccine’s appointment to a bus operator, according to a press release from AC Transit.
BART also announced last week that passengers can get free rides from the home vaccination center, showing their vaccination cards to BART staff at the station to receive a ticket loaded with $ 7 – enough to get anywhere on the system other than San Francisco Pare International Airport.
The opening of the Coliseum as a place to receive the vaccine marks the expansion of mass vaccination sites throughout California. Last week, 49ers and Santa Clara County opened vaccines at Levi’s Stadium, which officials hope will become California’s largest vaccination site in the coming weeks.
But supply may remain a constant problem to increase the number of vaccinations in the area. In San Francisco, officials announced that they would have to pause two high-volume COVID-19 vaccination sites – at the Moscone Center and City College in San Francisco – for several days due to “limited, inconsistent and unpredictable” delivery.
Oakland Deputy Mayor Rebecca Kaplan said in a press release on Monday that she and East Oakland counselor Treva Reid are working with state and federal officials to “improve their equitable reach to underserved communities” and to open more mobile vaccination stations in partnership with local community organizations.