South Bay teachers to receive vaccinations next week at BCHD’s AdventurePlex in Manhattan Beach
by Kevin Cody Approximately 1,200 teachers at 11 South Bay public school districts will receive Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination shots next Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday at AdventurePlex, in Manhattan Beach. AdventurePlex is a children’s play facility owned by the Beach Cities Health District, which is coordinating administration of the vaccinations. Volunteer medical professionals and fire fighters will administer the vaccination shots on the play facility’s indoor basketball court. Los Angeles County is allotting 1,280 doses of the vaccine to the 11 districts, which represents about 10 percent of the 11 districts’ teachers and support staff, BCHD CEO Tom Bakaly said in an interview Friday morning. Bakaly said the individual districts will decide which of their teachers and support will receive the vaccination shots. At Tuesday’s Redondo Beach School Board Meeting, Redondo Superintendent Steven Keller released a list prioritizing the order in which his teachers and staff will be vaccinated. At the top of Redondo’s list of recipients is the Child Development Center staff, whose 110 personnel would account for almost all of Redondo’s 140 vaccine allotments. The Redondo list…
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