Excerpted from The Los Angeles Times
By Hayley Smith, Colleen Shalby, Sara Cardine, Jonathan Wosen
As Orange County residents 65 and older furiously book appointments to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at a new distribution center that opened Wednesday at Disneyland in Anaheim, plans are already in the works to bring additional distribution centers online.
Officials have not yet settled on the locations of those vaccination centers, known as super PODs"(points of distribution), but Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley suggested in a virtual town hall on Facebook on Thursday that the Orange County Fairgrounds could be among them.
“I know the cat’s already out of the bag that we’re going to eventually have a site at the fairgrounds,” Foley said in the forum, where she and Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach) provided an update on the county’s COVID-19 response.
In collaboration with the Orange County Fire Authority, Orange County Health Care Agency officials have established an incident management team to help oversee administration of COVID-19 vaccines and distribution points countywide.
Operation Independence seeks to vaccinate the bulk of Orange County residents by July 4.