The vaccine was not released at exactly warp speed. So far, almost 9 million Americans have received a first dose of COVID. If we want to move faster, we may need super-centers and 24-hour vaccines to accommodate the hundreds of millions of Americans who are still waiting to be vaccinated.
I wonder where they could go? Where could you move thousands through a socially distant and centralized location? Where can hundreds of cars easily find parking spaces? What can always be accessed by public transport? It looks like your local stadium.
Like November (and the Slaughterhouses of Georgia), state governments and professional teams should do their utmost to provide empty stadiums for the public good. After all, we are the ones who pay for the stadiums financed with public funds. Why shouldn’t we be able to use them?
Well, it looks like we could start soon. Today, New York Mayor Bill De Blasio announced a new mass vaccination site at Citi Field, a $ 830.6 million stadium paid for with the help of $ 614.3 million public. Mets Stadium will be immunized thousands of New Yorkers a day. And it’s not just New York City. Sunday night, the city of Los Angeles announced it Dodger Stadium would start vaccinating this week. And two hours south, Petco Park will inoculate thousands of people at Padres Stadium.
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There are vaccination sites in State Farm Stadium (Arizona Cardinals) Hard Rock Stadium (Miami Dolphins) Minute Maid Park (Houston Astros) The big house (University of Michigan Football) and more. In addition, Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium are it is expected to happen vaccination sites for Massachusetts first aid this week.
But in a nation with so many empty stadiums and publicly funded, more sports venues should start considering how they will help the community. The NFL has done the same already instat teams to offer their home camps to vaccination sites and President-elect Joe Biden will do so as supposed will include sports stadiums in its vaccination plan, which will be formally announced on Thursday. According to research by Arizona State University’s Global Sport Matters, the majority of American sports areas use at least some public aid to pay for professional stadiums.
Wouldn’t it make sense for us, the public, to have to use it?