Los Angeles (KABC) - Last week, approximately 3,000 students from the Los Angeles Unified School District tested positive for COVID-19 when they returned to school and had to be quarantined.
In addition, 3,500 people had to be quarantined due to close contact with people who tested positive. There are about 600,000 students in LAUSD.
When these numbers appeared, the school district launched mobile vaccination clinics in middle and high schools to vaccinate any eligible students and employees against COVID-19.
Interim director Megan K. Reilly said that starting from August 30, mobile vaccination teams will visit each campus to provide the first and second doses of vaccines. Students 12 years and older are eligible to participate.
You can make an appointment through LAUSD's Daily Pass app. To make an appointment or to find out when the vaccine team will visit a particular school, please call (213) 328-3958.
They help reduce the chances of getting considerably sick and dying from the virus," Reilly said. "We can and will protect our school communities by continuing to vaccinate employees and every eligible student."
Reilly said that students aged 12 to 15 must bring an adult when vaccinated, while students 16 and older can bring an adult or a signed consent form.
The school-based vaccine program is one of several strategies implemented by LAUSD because face-to-face learning has resumed in the face of the countywide COVID-19 surge, which is driven by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus.
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