2024-03-06 01:14:25
Text: Karla Castillo
Disneyland, after its closure since last March 2020, will open its doors to the public, but this time, as a mass vaccination center against Covid-19, so the park, in California, will allow the application of the vaccinates thousands of people per day.
This property of the Walt Disney company will be the first large complex to provide coronavirus vaccines in Orange County, California, and will be operational at the end of this week, according to foreign media reports.
Although the Disney parks in Orlando, Florida, welcome the public, those in California remain closed due to the high number of cases of Covid-19 infections in the territory, especially after the December holidays, which are expected to cause a moose. in patient numbers.
Of course, the purpose of turning the place into a vaccine distribution center is to apply it to thousands of people daily, since, by Monday, California reached the figure of 20,000 deaths due to the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University. , thus establishing its new fatal record and ranking third in the country in terms of deaths associated with Covid-19, behind Texas and New York.
The amusement park is not the only large space that is used for this objective, the state of California has also been transforming baseball stadiums and fairgrounds into mass vaccination sites, due to the urgency of the growth of infections in the region.
Some of those new sites are the parking lots of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles (which was previously used as a diagnostic testing center), Petco Park in San Diego, and the CalExpo fairgrounds in Sacramento.
For both the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, and public health officials, mass vaccination would help stop the wave of new infections, which they believe has been too slow, and one million injections are expected to be administered this week, a figure which doubles the amount applied until now.
They are still in the first stage of vaccination, in which those who will receive the vaccine are determined, such as health workers, the elderly and people in homes, everyone is contacted and goes to the planned places.