![]() While challenges exist, Ghaly said the county was working hard with state officials to find resolutions. “If we aren’t able to reserve appointments for our patients we are concerned they will be pushed out by those with more resources, more time to sit before their computer screens, and they have the ability to drive anywhere to get a vaccine.” “It’s important that DHS can continue to focus on its patients,” Ghaly said. County officials said they did not have assurances yet the system would account for local disparities, such as the patients that often fall under the care of Department of Health Services, according to Ghaly. Christina Ghaly, Health Services Director said on Tuesday not only had limited capabilities to restrict appointments, but it also created a bureaucratic headache when entering required data because the site was not interfaced with the county system.Ĭounty officials were scheduled to meet later this week with leaders at Blue Shield of California heading up efforts to coordinate vaccine distributions going forward. In many cases, it involved several school districts working together and an offer for private and parochial schools to join in those distribution sites as well.Īt primary issue is the state’s MyTurn.Ca.Gov website which Dr. County schools was being worked out by the L.A. Much of the plan involves expanding on partnerships with health clinics, hospitals and pharmacies to vaccinate populations of teachers and other essential essential workers, possibly bypassing the state appointment system that has been so problematic. If not fixed soon, supervisors worried that the problems may snarl efforts in the next push to vaccinate up to 1.8 million more people, including teachers and other essential workers.įerrer laid out a plan Tuesday to administer vaccines across a vast network of school districts, public-safety agencies, childcare providers and food/agricultural workers. The online appointment system has contributed to the unequal distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, Solis said, which has resulted in lower rates of vaccinations in the densely populated communities of color that are among the hardest hit by the virus. ![]() I am reminded that this is a society of inequitably and I hate to say it but discrimination.” ![]() “And there are those who don’t have the ability to sit at home and work on the internet because they have to go out and work to put food on the table. “Here we are again in a situation where the lack of access to the internet is leaving people behind,” Solis said. Though, as in the case in Boyle Heights and elsewhere, those codes get leaked and used by others. The best solution offered has been to use access codes. The ability to create what public health officials call “closed sites” - where they can designate appointments for only certain people, such as residents of a local neighborhood - has stumbled, spurring officials to raise the issue with vaccine-appointment website administrators. “We wouldn’t have communities competing against one another if we had more vaccines.” Supervisors Janice Hahn, District 4, and Sheila Kuehl, District 3, said it was not right to vilify those who desperately want a vaccine - while stopping short of defending such actions. Officials and reporters have noticed for weeks that people receiving doses at certain vaccination sites were coming from areas all around the Southland and not necessarily from local neighborhoods the clinics were intended to serve.
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