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Dodger Stadium Readies for Mass Vaccination

Dodger Stadium Readies for Mass Vaccination

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"We are ready. We are like an army ready to give vaccines."

It was almost 90 degrees in Los Angeles today as cars pulled up to Dodger Stadium, now a mass vaccination site racing against time to distribute shots before a more contagious strain of COVID-19 become dominant in SoCal. dot.LA reporter Francesca Billington reports on the effort as it gets underway.

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Dodger Stadium — once the nation's largest COVID-19 testing site — is slated to vaccinate up to 12,000 people each day. Officials plan to finish inoculating some 500,000 health care and assisted care employees by the end of this month before opening appointments up to people 65 and older. Read more >>

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