Sofi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Rams in Inglewood, California.
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The National Football League told President Joe Biden that it is making all 30 stadiums available to the general public as mass vaccination sites against coronavirus.
Seven NFL teams are already organizing Covid-19 shots at or near their stadiums.
“The NFL and our 32 member clubs are committed to doing our part to ensure that vaccines are as widely available in our communities,” league commissioner Roger Goodell wrote Thursday in Biden.
“We can expand our efforts to stadiums more effectively because many of our clubs have previously offered their facilities as COVID test centers and polling places in recent months,” Goodell wrote.
His letter said each NFL team would coordinate with local, state, and federal health officials on stadium vaccination efforts.
This was already happening in San Francisco, where the 49ers team and Santa Clara County announced Friday that Levi’s Stadium would begin use next week as a vaccination site for local residents.
The team said the stadium will be the largest vaccination site in California, with an initial capacity of 5,000 people receiving shots a day, and plans to increase it to 15,000 people each day as supplies increase. vaccine.
Goodell noted that the NFL will feature 7,500 vaccinated health workers from across the country as guests at this Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The commissioner said workers were invited “in gratitude for their heroic service and for highlighting the importance of vaccines as our country recovers from the pandemic.”
The NFL referred questions to the White House when it was contacted by CNBC. The Biden administration made no immediate comment.
The league’s current vaccination sites are hosted by the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers, Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots.
A lot of professional baseball stadiums in the United States also already offer vaccines against Covid to the public.
A temporary mass vaccination site was opened Friday at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx district of New York City.
Another location at Mets House, Citi Field in Queens, was scheduled to begin firing in late January. But this opening was postponed because the city did not have enough vaccines.
Los Angeles turned Dodger Stadium into a mass vaccination site in January after serving as Covid’s mass testing site for eight months.
– CNBC’s Noah Higgins-Dunn contributed to this report.
Correction: The NFL has 30 stadiums. An earlier version incorrectly indicated the number.