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Read the Mayor’s Letter to Governor Newsom Asking That the Rose Bowl Be Used as a Mass Vaccination Site

Published on Thursday, January 21, 2021 | 9:34 am
 

Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to set up a regional mass vaccination site at the Rose Bowl this week.

In a letter to Newsom, Gordo on Tuesday requested that the state establish a Mega Vaccination Medical Point of Dispensing, or MPOD, at the iconic stadium, along with a direct state supply of vaccines.


Read the full text of Mayor Gordo’s letter to Governor Newsom. Click here


The city has “invested significant resources” into establishing infrastructure to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, Gordo wrote.  “Nonetheless, it is clear the City is quickly approaching threshold capability, which is insufficient to satisfy local demand for vaccine.”

The Rose Bowl, the mayor added, would be an ideal location for such a center, due to its size and renown.

While Pasadena Public Health Department officials have set up their own MPOD to administer vaccinations in compliance with the state’s phased rollout plan and are planning to expand it, immunizing Pasadena’s 141,000 residents would simply not be possible in a reasonable amount of time with existing local resources, according to Gordo.

The City’s MPOD had administered roughly 2,300 doses of the vaccine under Phase 1A over the prior two weeks, he said. The twice-weekly MPOD will soon be expanded to four days per week, increasing capacity to 2,800 doses per week. But that is nowhere near enough.

“With the rapidly approaching need to administer second doses, our ability to administer first doses to community members will diminish,” Gordo wrote. “Despite leveraging all city resources, it would take two years to vaccinate everyone in the city at a rate of 1,500 first doses per week.”

Pasadena had expected it would be an important component of the vaccine administration process, in partnership with local healthcare providers and pharmacies, “but the Pasadena Public Health Department has far too often had to respond to community needs assigned to these partners, expending valuable city personal and precious vaccine supply,” the mayor said. “The city was expecting to be the safety net for the system, but instead we have become the system.

“These challenges, coupled with limited delivery of vaccine from the state, have made it improbable to meet the reasonable expectations of our residents and the resulting demand for vaccine,” he said. “With the state transition to Phase 1B despite limited vaccine supply, these challenges have become more pronounced.”

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