Just a day after the city of Los Angeles announced his plan to turn Dodger Stadium into a massive vaccination site against COVID-19, Orange County officials have revealed similar plans for Disneyland. Eart’s happiest placeIt will soon become the most vaccinated place on Earth (sorry, these things are inevitable) Entertainment Weekly reports that Disneyland Resort has generously offered itself as a Super POD site (distribution site) —probably the least it can do, given that Disney chose to keep Disneyland open during a pandemic that led to Los Angeles County recently exceeded 12,000 deaths in a post-holiday wave.
Depending on the county, the Disneyland Resort Super POD will be operational sometime this week and will have the capacity to vaccinate thousands of Anaheim residents daily. The COVID-19 vaccine has been developed in phases across the country, with the elderly, health care and front-line workers receiving it first. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 9 million people have received the first of two vaccines since Jan. 11, while only 151,000 people in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated (they have received both doses ) from 8 January, according to a New York News report. The Department of Health and Human Services is being implemented new vaccination guidelines in an effort to speed up the distribution process; these guidelines, which will enable people over the age of 65 to start receiving the vaccine, will be announced today.