The Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors is sponsoring a free pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Monday at Burton Chace Park in Marina Del Rey. The clinic takes place from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., inside the park’s community room, at 13650 Mindanao Way.
Anyone 12 years or older, regardless of vaccination or immigration status, is eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine — though people ages 12 to 17 years old must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The clinic will distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in first doses for the unvaccinated and second doses for those who were vaccinated at least two weeks prior.
The clinic is intended to help stem the resurgent spread of the COVID-19 virus. County officials are pinning the most recent wave of infections on the delta variant, a mutation of the COVID-19 virus, which a recent CDC report finds is highly transmissible. The report also takes care to note that vaccination “is the most important strategy to prevent severe illness and death.”
According to LA County, 92% of COVID-related hospitalizations between May and mid-July are among those who are unvaccinated. On July 29, the LA County Department of Public Health reported 3,248 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 infections and 70 new deaths.
“Although vaccinated people are seeing a rise in new COVID diagnoses, they are primarily experiencing their infections not as severe illnesses that bring them to the emergency room, but as bad colds,” Public Health said in a Thursday news release. “As the data shows, unvaccinated people simply cannot have the same level of confidence that an infection with this virus will lead to mild illness.”
Walk-ups are welcome, but appointments can be made here. For more information on vaccine safety and efficacy, visit LA County Public Health’s information page here.