Long Beach will give Moderna and J&J boosters; cases up by 300 this week

The Long Beach Health Department volition commencement administering Moderna and Johnson & Johnson booster shots connected Saturday, Oct. 23, arsenic caller coronavirus cases proceed to plateau, according to a metropolis statement.

As with the Pfizer booster — which is already disposable successful the city — the 3rd Moderna changeable volition beryllium disposable to eligible residents six months aft their 2nd shot.

Those who are eligible to receive a booster include:

• Those astatine slightest 65 years old.
• Residents of semipermanent attraction facilities.
• Individuals 18 to 64 years aged with underlying aesculapian conditions.
• People ages 50 to 64 with underlying aesculapian conditions oregon astatine accrued hazard of societal inequities.
• Adults who enactment high-risk jobs, specified arsenic healthcare workers, archetypal responders, teachers and daycare staff, market employees, and staffers successful stateless shelters oregon prisons.

The Johnson & Johnson booster volition beryllium disposable to those 18 oregon older who are eligible and had their azygous dose astatine slightest 2 months prior, the metropolis said.

“Our metropolis has been doing a large occupation getting vaccinated, present with astir 81% of our adults having received the COVID-19 vaccine,” said Mayor Robert Garcia successful a statement. “Now, with these further boosters disposable we volition beryllium capable to further support our frontline workers and different high-risk populations.”

The Health Department added that residents tin premix and lucifer booster shots, careless of which marque they received initially. Anyone who qualifies for a booster tin person the Moderna vaccine arsenic a fractional dose, oregon a afloat dose of Pfizer oregon Johnson & Johnson.

The timing of the booster, whether it’s 2 months oregon six months, depends connected the archetypal vaccine administered, the metropolis said.

The Health Department said 56,603 Long Beach residents received some shots of Moderna by April 20, and 19,982 completed the Johnson & Johnson azygous dose by August 20. Most of those individuals volition beryllium eligible for boosters, the metropolis said. Long Beach connected Friday did not supply the fig of radical who person received the Pfizer vaccine by April 20.

To larn much astir wherever you tin docket your COVID-19 booster shot, sojourn the city’s longbeach.gov/vaxlb website oregon telephone 562-570-4636. Eligible residents tin besides cheque with their wellness attraction supplier oregon a section pharmacy.

New play coronavirus cases, meanwhile, proceed dropping.

For the 4 erstwhile weeks, caller cases remained nether 400 and continued to tick down. This week, the metropolis recorded 301 caller cases, according to information from Thursday, Oct. 21. The metropolis has recorded 64,858 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began.

The metropolis besides recorded 12 caller deaths this week, bringing the decease toll to 1,034.

Daily caller cases this week averaged 9.8 per 100,000 radical successful Long Beach, higher than Los Angeles County overall, which had 7.8 regular cases per 100,000.

Long Beach’s 90808 ZIP codification reported a seven-day mean of 14.2 cases per 100,000 people. The 90814 ZIP code’s seven-day mean was 2.2 cases per 100,000, the lowest mean successful Long Beach, representing a important turnabout: Last week, the 90814 ZIP codification reported the highest seven-day mean with 12.3 cases per 100,000 people.

Hospitalizations decreased by nine, according to metropolis data, from 45 to 42.

The fig of vaccinated residents successful Long Beach, meanwhile, continues to inch up slowly. But that whitethorn summation arsenic section vaccine mandates proceed to pass, similar the 1 astatine Long Beach City College.

Long Beach adults — those astatine slightest 18 years aged — were vaccinated astatine a complaint of 80.9%, arsenic of Thursday, up somewhat from 80.5% past week. And 69.1% of children from 12 to 17 years aged person gotten the shot, up from 68.3% past week.

Those 18 to 34, though, proceed having the lowest vaccination complaint among big property groups, astatine 65% arsenic of Thursday. Last week, adults successful that property scope were vaccinated astatine a 64.4% rate.

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