Pasadena cancels COVID-19 vaccine clinic after unqualified Hollywood workers grab 900 of 1500 slots

[Demovictory9]

Flooded with Hollywood and media workers, Flooded with Hollywood and media workers, Pasadena cancels COVID-19 vaccine clinic


Pasadena officials on Tuesday canceled a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for senior citizens, grocery store employees and other essential workers after hundreds of people who were not eligible for the shots signed up for appointments.

People who did not yet qualify for the vaccine under state guidelines claimed about 900 of the 1,500 slots at a clinic that was designed for people older than 65 and essential workers who live or work in Pasadena, city spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said.

Many of the appointments were booked by people who worked in the media and in Hollywood, Derderian said, including at production companies, streaming TV services and news outlets and on the sets of soap operas.

“Hundreds signed up within the first hour,” Derderian said. “It was like rapid fire.”


https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-09/pasadena-cancels-covid-19-vaccine-clinic-line-cutters


The problems in Pasadena mirrored a situation in Los Angeles County in which registration codes meant to reserve vaccination appointments for residents of communities hit hard by COVID-19 wound up in the hands of more privileged Angelenos, including private-school teachers and Hollywood workers, as The Times previously reported.

[3littlebeans]

1. And I'm over here in Massachusetts

On immune suppressing medication, with three health conditions that place me in high risk. I will NOT get in the way of an elderly or teacher getting their shot first. I’m living the introvert dream /s

[oldsoftie]

2. Well hollywood was deemed 'essential'!

A restaurant stayed open by saying they were being used by a film company

[amuse bouche]

3. I would rather people got the vaccine than reject it

Just get more vaccine out there

[FakeNoose]

4. They need to get vaccine over to Hollywood

Why doesn't every major hospital and health clinic have enough to go around?

[Mariana]

5. Because they have to be produced first, before they can be distributed.

There haven't yet been enough doses produced for "every major hospital and health clinic to have enough to go around".