California communities especially hard hit by the coronavirus, as state and federal officials try to tackle racial and economic disparities hindering US immunization efforts.Joint plans to launch the two sites on Feb.
16, at the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum in Oakland and the California State University campus in east Los Angeles, were detailed separately on Wednesday by Governor Gavin Newsom and the Biden administration's COVID-19 response coordinator, Jeff Zients.The two sites, which the state's Department of Health said will be capable of administering several thousand shots per day each, mark the first of more than 100 such vaccination centers expected to be established in communities of color across the United States, according to.