A COVID-19 vaccination site opened Tuesday at Union Station with an end goal to disperse vaccines in difficult to-arrive at communities.
The facility will be open Mondays through Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Union Station East Portal.
The site will offer Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson vaccines. Pfizer is accessible to anybody 12 or older while Johnson and Johnson and Moderna are accessible for people 18 and over.
Mayor Eric Garcetti said the station had 110,000 explorers go during each time before the pandemic.
“You can easily get your vaccine here at Union Station. You can get to this site on Metro’s B and L, formerly known as Red and Gold rail lines, the J (Silver) Bus Rapid Transit Line, one of the many Metro Foothill Transit and other bus lines, Metrolink and Amtrak. You can come here from another city, even another state, we’ll give you the vaccine,” Garcetti said.
“This is perhaps the least demanding spot you can go to, it’s in a real sense on your approach to work or on your way home,” he added.
The site, worked by the Los Angeles Fire Department, in association with CORE, will offer stroll up vaccines. The individuals who need to create an appointment can do as such here.
Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins said the vaccination site will bring “genuine feelings of serenity” to its riders and neighbors and build up “how Metro is important for the texture of the community where we work.”
“We can’t exaggerate the significance of value in everything we do, regardless of whether it’s giving fundamental transit administrations or admittance to vaccinations. Communities of shading, older adults, and other underserved communities have borne a lopsided weight of the impacts of the pandemic, both from an economic standpoint and from a wellbeing standpoint. It doesn’t need to be like this,” she said.