Moscone Center opens - again - for high-volume vaccinations
Moscone Center opens again for vaccinations
Moscone Center opens again on Thursday for vaccinations. Elissa Harrington reports
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Moscone Center is set to begin administering COVID-19 vaccines again on Thursday after putting the program on pause because of lack of supply.
This is a big deal in the city’s efforts to vaccinate because the Moscone Center is a high-volume site, capable of administering 7,000 to 10,000 doses a day.
The center originally opened as a vaccine clinic on Feb. 5.
It was forced to temporarily shut down twice because of vaccine shortages.
Some Bay Area providers also saw shipping delays linked to the storms in the midwest.
Officials at the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management told KTVU last week they could see the vaccination program continuing to start and stop through the end of April.
"We have been experiencing intermittent and not consistent allocation of vaccine," said Mary Ellen Carroll of the emergency management department. "It also is unpredictable, so we don't necessarily know what we will get, week to week."
More than 142,000 San Franciscans have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
That's 19% of the city's population.
More than 51,000 have received the second dose as well.
Vaccines are available by appointment only.
Right now this is for people 65 and older, healthcare workers, emergency service workers and those who work in education and food and agriculture.
Anyone who had an appointment that was canceled should be given priority on the new schedule.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - FEBRUARY 12: Antonio Rabanal, 73 (right) gets vaccinated at the Moscone Center vaccination site by RN Scott Keech (left) on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021 in San Francisco, California.(Gabrielle Lurie / POOL/The San Francisco Chronicle via
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - FEBRUARY 12: Governor Gavin Newsom (center) and Mayor London Breed (right) ride the escalator as they get a tour of the Moscone Center vaccination site on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021 in San Francisco, California.(Gabrielle Lurie / POOL/
Medical personel await people to administer Covid-19 vaccines on the opening day of a large-scale Covid-19 vaccination site at a parking structure at Cal Poly Pomona University in Pomona, California on February 5, 2021. - The Cal Poly Pomona site is
Maximo Michua, 74, holds his sleeve as Kathryne Acuna (R), Director of Ambulatory Clinical Services at Kaiser Permanente, administers his Covid-19 vaccine on the opening day of a large-scale Covid-19 vaccination site at a parking structure at Cal Pol
People check in on the opening day of a large-scale Covid-19 vaccination site at a parking structure at Cal Poly Pomona University in Pomona, California on February 5, 2021. - The Cal Poly Pomona site is one of two opening in California, with the oth