SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – On the same day that the county is expected to allow teachers, police and food workers to receive the coronavirus vaccine, the Petco Park super vaccination station will be closed again.
The site, which is the county’s largest vaccine distribution site, will be closed from Saturday, February 27, until Tuesday, March 2, according to a county spokesman. The closure is due to the national shortage of doses of the modern coronavirus vaccine, the spokesman added.
The appointments that were scheduled for this weekend at the beginning of next week at the site are being rescheduled. These individuals will be notified through the county’s MyChart system to choose a rescheduled date.
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The spokesman said that teachers’ vaccinations will not be impacted as they are being administered by a different system. It was not immediately clear how the closure will affect other groups that will become eligible on Saturday, including police and food workers.
Any of the vaccination sites administered by the county currently administering Pfizer vaccines will also not be affected.
This is the second weekend in a row that the Petco Park distribution site closes. The site closed from Sunday, February 14, to Tuesday, February 16, after a modern vaccine shipment was postponed. The site closed again from Saturday, February 19, to Monday, February 22, after a winter storm delayed vaccine shipments across the country.
Saturday is the start of the county’s effort to start vaccinating about half a million San Diegans who qualify in Phase 1B of the California vaccine distribution plan. Educators, emergency service personnel and food and agricultural workers now qualify. Residents aged 65 and over at this stage are already eligible for vaccines.