LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Los Angeles city-operated COVID-19 vaccination sites, including the super site at Dodger Stadium, are scheduled to reopen Tuesday. City sites will be primarily providing second doses this week for people due for the required follow-up shot, but there will be a small number of first-dose appointments available throughout the week, Mayor Eric Garcetti said. READ MORE: 'Magic School Buses': LAUSD Purchases 10 More All-Electric Buses To Bring Students Back When Campuses Reopen CORE employees are on hand to direct traffic at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles after it was turned into a COVID-19 drive-thru vaccination site on Friday, January 15, 2021. On Monday, the city’s online portal was updated to allow essential workers in food and agriculture, education and childcare, and emergency services and first responders to make first-dose appointments. “Our vaccination program has weathered many challenges, but we have made it clear that nothing will interfere with our mission to deliver this life-saving vaccine to Angelenos as quickly and as safely as possible,” Garcetti said. “Opening eligibility to more groups of essential workers will save more lives and accelerate our recovery. We are encouraged to hear commitments for more vaccines coming from our federal and state partners, and stand ready to scale up our operations so we can end this pandemic.” READ MORE: Teachers, Food Workers Now Eligible To Get Vaccinated In LA County The city was expected to receive 70,000 doses of Moderna vaccine Monday, which would primarily be used towards providing second doses at its six mass vaccination sites: San Fernando Park, Hansen Dam, Crenshaw Christian Center, Lincoln Park, Pierce College and Dodger Stadium. The sites will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the exception of Dodger Stadium, which will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. A small number of first-dose appointments at Pierce College will be available ...
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Catholic Archdiocese Bans COVID Vaccine Over Tenuous Link to Abortion
St. Louis Cathedral, seat of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In a ruling reminiscent of medieval speculation over the number of angels that could dance on the head of a pin, the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans has issued a split decision on the religious acceptability of major COVID-19 vaccines. It has deemed the Pfizer and Moderna versions okay but called the new Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine “morally compromised” because it was derived from cloned stem cells distantly related to tissue from fetuses aborted back in the 1970s. Here’s the key language from the statement : The Archdiocese of New Orleans, in light of guidance from the Vatican, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and The National Catholic Bioethics Center affirm that though there was some lab testing that utilized the abortion-derived cell line, the two vaccines currently available from Pfizer and Moderna do not rely on cell lines from abortions in the manufacturing process and therefore can be morally acceptable for Catholics as the connection to abortion is extremely remote. It is under the same guidance that the archdiocese must instruct Catholics that the latest vaccine from Janssen/Johnson & Johnson is morally compromised as it uses the abortion-derived cell line in development and production of the vaccine as well as the testing. As Religion News Service notes , this judgment (binding only on Catholics in a single area — and then only on those who pay attention to such guidance from the hierarchy) reflects an old hairsplitting argument: The statement is part of a longstanding debate regarding the use of what are referred to as HEK293 cells, which reportedly trace their origins to an aborted fetus from the 1970s. Scholars and ethicists have noted that HEK293s and similar cell lines are clones and are not the original fetal tissue. It’s worth noting that another Catholic ...
3 Pop-Up Vaccination Sites To Open In Northeast San Fernando Valley
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Los Angeles City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez announced Monday that three COVID-19 vaccination pop-up sites will cater to residents in the northeast San Fernando Valley over the next three weeks, starting Tuesday. The sites will be available to eligible residents, including people over the age of 65, food service workers, farmworkers, animal agriculture workers, emergency services workers, education and childcare workers, healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities. READ MORE: Cold Weather Alert Issued For Antelope Valley, Later In Week For Mountains Appointments must be made in advance and people getting vaccinated should bring identification to prove that they are a Council District 7 resident, which includes Pacoima, Sylmar, North Hills, Mission Hills, Lakeview Terrace, Sunland, Tujunga and Shadow Hills. READ MORE: 1 Killed, Another Injured In Glassell Park Shooting; Authorities Searching For Suspect The pop-up sites will be located at: Valley Crossroads Seventh Day Adventist at 11350 Glenoaks Blvd. in Pacoima from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday (make an appointment by calling 818-485-0600); Sylmar Recreation Center at 13109 Borden Ave. in Sylmar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 9 through March 13 (make an appointment by calling 818-756- 8409); and North Valley City Hall at 7747 Foothill Blvd. in Tujunga from March 16 to March 20 (make an appointment by calling 818-352-3287). Beginning Monday, teachers and food and agriculture workers were among an estimated 1.2 million Los Angeles County residents now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine . MORE NEWS: Driver Identified In Bizarre Pursuit Involving BMW Doing Donuts, Hitting Pedestrian (© Copyright 2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. City News Service contributed to this report.) ...
Fauci on Johnson & Johnson vaccine: ‘Just be really grateful’
Anthony Fauci Anthony Fauci 'SNL' envisions Fauci as game show host, giving winners vaccines Sunday shows - Trump's reemergence, COVID-19 vaccines and variants dominate Fauci lays out timeline for vaccinating teens, children MORE said during a discussion of the recently authorized Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine on Sunday that people should be “really grateful that we have three really efficacious vaccines” despite its lower reported efficacy. On ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos George Robert Stephanopoulos Khashoggi colleague: 'Why are we making an alliance with a dictator?' Fauci on Johnson & Johnson vaccine: 'Just be really grateful' Portman on Trump's dominance of GOP: Republican Party's policies are 'even more popular' MORE noted that Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine has been reported to be 72 percent effective at preventing coronavirus infection, lower than the 95 percent effectiveness reported by the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. "We've got to get away from that chain of thought, George, for the following reason. The only way you really know the difference between vaccines is by comparing them head-to-head. We have three highly efficacious vaccines that are safe and efficacious. That's the bottom line," Fauci said. "This is a good vaccine," he added. "I think we need to pull away from this comparing and parsing numbers until you compare them head-to-head. Just be really grateful that we have three really efficacious vaccines." NEW: After the FDA authorized use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, @gstephanopoulos asks Dr. Anthony Fauci Anthony Fauci 'SNL' envisions Fauci as game show host, giving winners vaccines Sunday shows - Trump's reemergence, COVID-19 vaccines and variants dominate Fauci lays out timeline for vaccinating teens, children MORE about hesitancy from people over its reported efficacy compared to others: "We have three highly ...
Fauci lays out timeline for vaccinating teens, children
The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci Anthony Fauci 'SNL' envisions Fauci as game show host, giving winners vaccines Sunday shows - Trump's reemergence, COVID-19 vaccines and variants dominate Fauci lays out timeline for vaccinating teens, children MORE , said on Sunday that high school students could begin receiving COVID-19 vaccinations in the fall, while younger children will likely have to wait until early next year. Speaking with host Chuck Todd Charles (Chuck) David Todd Brown vows Democrats will 'find a way' to raise minimum wage Fauci lays out timeline for vaccinating teens, children Trudeau: Canadian, US border to remain closed 'for now' MORE on NBC's "Meet the Press," Fauci explained that more data is needed to make sure the three vaccines authorized by the Food and Drug Administration can be safely administered to younger children. "If you project realistically when we'll get enough data to be able to say that elementary school children will be able to be vaccinated, I would think that would be at the earliest the end of the year and very likely the first quarter of 2022," said Fauci. "But for the high school kids, it looks like sometime this fall," he continued. "I'm not sure it's exactly be on the first day the school opens but pretty close to that." Fauci also expressed his support for the newly authorized vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson, telling NBC that he would get that vaccine if he was in a situation where it was the first one to which he had access. "Well Chuck, first of all, you now have three highly efficacious vaccines, for sure," Fauci said. "There's no doubt about that. And particularly the recent results from [Johnson & Johnson] -- if you look at the efficacy against severe disease, greater than 85 percent, and there have been no hospitalization or deaths in multiple countries, even in countries that have the variants." "If ...
