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Governor Gavin Newsom visits a mass vaccination site at the Long Beach Convention Center. Thousands of teachers and school staff continue to be vaccinated at this location.
Recorded February 22, 2021 in Long Beach.
Video courtesy of the City of Long Beach.
For more information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak in Cupertino, please visit https://www.cupertino.org/coronavirus
B
Well,
good
morning,
everybody
I
want
to
welcome
everyone,
of
course,
to
the
city
of
long
beach,
and
my
name
is
robert
garcia,
I'm
the
mayor-
and
we're
really
happy
to
be
here
today,
of
course,
to
welcome
the
governor,
but
also
some
some
friends
and
some
special
guests
as
well.
I
want
to
start
by
thanking
two
individuals
that
will
also
be
making
some
remarks,
and
that
is
our
state
senator
here
for
long
beach,
lena
gonzalez,
who's
with
us
today.
B
I
also
just
want
to,
of
course,
start
by
thanking
the
governor
for
visiting
long
beach.
Today
he
had
just
had
a
chance
right
now
to
speak
with
about
a
hundred
of
our
key
folk
that
run
this
mass
vaccination
clinic
pretty
soon
we're
gonna
start
letting
the
cars
that
have
already
lined
up
outside
into
our
vaccination
clinic
and
every
morning
about
a
hundred
folks
that
really
make
up
the
team
that
run
this
operation
gather
at
an
early
morning.
Meeting.
B
This
is
a
combination
of
national
guardsmen
and
women
of
our
nurses,
our
health
department,
team,
firefighters,
police
officers
and
the
governor
just
had
a
chance
to
go
and
speak
to
them
at
their
morning
meeting
and,
most
importantly,
thank
them
for
the
incredible
work
they
do
every
single
day.
So
we're
very
grateful
that
the
governor
was
able
to
join
them
for
their
meeting.
B
Vaccinating
teachers
and
that's
allowed
us
to
have
a
plan
to
reopen
schools
safely
this
upcoming
month
next
month,
and
we
encourage
and
have
encouraged
all
health
jurisdictions
to
begin
vaccinating
educators
across
the
state
and,
of
course,
every
single
day.
We
vaccinate
those
that
need
the
vaccine,
the
most,
which
are
our
seniors,
our
65
plus
seniors,
and,
of
course
many
of
them
will
be
vaccinated
here
at
the
convention
center
later
today.
With
that
I
want
to
as
I
introduce
here.
B
Who
gets
us
what
we
need
when,
when
our
own
city
has
had
issues
around
you
know
a
vaccine
being
late
or
we
need
to
ensure
that
second
doses
are
met.
It's
been
the
governor
and
his
staff
that
have
ensured
every
single
day
that
our
operations
have
run
smoothly.
So
he
has
taken
a
bold
approach
to
this
serious
problem.
We
are
still
in
a
massive
pandemic
in
crisis,
but
we're
very,
very
grateful
to
the
governor
and
his
leadership
and
his
plans
as
we
reopen
the
state,
and
so
with
that.
C
Thank
you,
mayor,
garcia,
it's
an
honor
to
be
here
and
to
see
firsthand
what
we've
all
been
reading
about.
We've
been
talking
about
up
and
down
the
state
of
california,
and
that's
leadership
by
example.
People
that
get
it
but,
more
importantly,
get
it
done
long.
Beach
has
been
a
demonstrable
leader
in
the
vaccination
efforts
and
our
testing
efforts.
C
Yesterday
we
were
at
a
number
of
sites,
including
down
in
englewood,
working
to
support
efforts
to
advance
the
cause
of
equity,
particularly
in
african-american
churches,
and
make
sure
that
we
are
meeting
people
where
they
are,
including
public
housing
sites,
boyle
heights,
among
other
places
in
la
those
efforts,
are
being
replicated
here
in
long
beach,
not
just
at
large
vaccination
sites,
but
small
pop-up
sites
all
throughout
this
community.
That's
kind
of
example
of
leadership.
We
need
to
see
replicated
all
across
the
state.
As
the
mayor
said,
we
now
have
vaccinated
over
7.3
million
people.
C
In
fact,
in
a
few
hours,
that
number
will
be
updated,
we're
getting
close
to
7.5
million
people
that
have
received
at
least
one
dose
of
the
vaccination.
That's
now
more
than
country
of
israel.
There
are
only
a
few
countries
in
the
world
that
have
vaccinated
more
people
than
the
state
of
california,
we're
averaging
just
shy
of
200
000
doses,
administered
each
and
every
day
about
1.4
million
were
administered
over
the
last
week,
and
while
that's
important
and
significant
to
highlight,
it's
also
important
and
significant
to
highlight
this
stubborn
fact.
C
There's
not
enough
vaccinations,
there's
not
enough
doses,
there's
not
enough
vaccines
to
accommodate
the
need
and
demand.
Just
at
this
site,
they're
running
about
a
third
of
capacity
sites,
all
across
the
state
of
california,
are
toggling
back
based
upon
limited
supply.
That's
a
manufacturing
issue
manufactured
supply
in
the
united
states
of
america
is
limited,
and
while
it's
good
that
we
are
administering
roughly
200
000
doses
a
day,
we're
receiving
just
shy
of
that.
C
If
you
average
the
amount
of
doses
we
receive
on
a
weekly
basis,
it
was
about
1.3
million
we
received
last
week
this
week
we
anticipate
receiving
about
1.4
million
next
week
and
we
agree
we're
very
grateful
for
the
visibility
now
from
the
biden.
Administration
will
receive
about
1.5
million
doses
of
the
vaccines.
C
It's
simply
not
what
we're
capable
of
administering
meaning.
We
could
do
exponentially
more,
but
nonetheless
we
are
seeing
modest
improvement
week
to
week
and
that's
allowing
us
to
not
only
take
care
of
vaccinating
the
vaccinators
and
vaccinating
our
most
vulnerable,
our
seniors,
but,
as
the
mayor
has
been
doing
for
now
weeks
and
weeks,
vaccinating
our
teachers
as
well,
so
we
can
get
our
kids
back
into
in-person
instruction,
which
is
foundational
and
fundamental
and
critical
to
their
social
and
emotional
health.
C
It's
foundational
in
terms
of
getting
this
economy
open
and
if
you
care
about
women,
you
care
about
moms,
particularly
single
mothers,
there's
nothing
more
essential
and
more
important.
We
can
do
to
support
working
women
and
single
moms
in
particular
than
getting
our
youngest
kids
back
into
school
in
cohorts
where
we
can
do
it
safely
and
long
beach
is
not
waiting
around
to
do
that.
This
mayor
has
been
doing
that
for
weeks
and
weeks.
35
counties
have
been
for
weeks
now
administering
doses
of
vaccines
to
teachers,
but
none
at
the
level
that
long
beach
is
doing.
C
As
a
consequence
of
that
leadership,
they
announced
a
date
to
reopen
their
schools
for
their
youngest
cohorts
for
in-person
instruction,
and
I
just
want
to
applaud
that.
I
want
to
recognize
that,
and
I
want
to
encourage
that
to
be
replicated
all
throughout
the
state
of
california.
The
state
has
put
out
guidelines
that
allow
for
safely
reopening
these
youngest
cohorts.
We
can
begin
that
today
same
time.
We
recognize,
we
must
do
it
safely.
We
must
value
our
educators
and
our
educators
are
not
just
our
teachers.
Our
educators
are
all
the
classified.
Staff.
C
Educators
include
the
people
that
make
schools
work,
cafeteria,
workers,
bus
drivers,
our
custodial
staff,
and
that's
why
this
state
is
prioritizing
an
additional
seventy
five
thousand
doses
every
single
week,
ten
percent
set
aside
of
all
the
first
doses
the
state
of
california
receives,
will
be
going
directly
prioritized
to
that
cohort
to
our
educators
and
child
care
workers,
which
are
also
essential
to
getting
our
schools
reopened
as
well.
So
we're
moving
in
that
direction,
with
clarity
with
determination,
but
cities
like
long
beach
are
not
waiting
and
we
encourage
others
not
to
wait
to
prioritize
this
cohort.
C
Recognizing
that
scarcity
is
the
limiting
factor,
as
it
relates
to
the
existing
tears
and
the
need
and
desires
of
tens
of
millions
of
californians
to
get
these
vaccines.
Two
brief
final
words
we're
blessed
as
well
to
have
some
remarkable
partners
in
this
process,
not
just
the
incredible
workers
that
are
making
this
happen.
This
large
site,
not
just
the
mayor
but
senator
gonzalez
who's,
been
a
real
leader
not
only
in
supporting
the
efforts
on
vaccinations
but
supporting
our
essential
workers
into
making
sure
we're
supporting
our
small
businesses.
C
She's
been
one
of
the
leaders
getting
now
two
plus
billion
dollars
in
small
business
grants
we'll
be
announcing
that
we
hope,
as
early
as
tomorrow,
and
will
start
to
distribute
billions
of
dollars
of
grants,
not
loans
to
our
smallest
businesses.
We
thank
the
senator
for
incredible
leadership
in
that
space,
3.8
billion
dollars,
she's
advocated
for
to
get
in
the
pockets
of
some
5.7
million
californians.
C
What
we
call
the
golden
state
stimulus,
direct
checks.
That
will
also
be
part
of
the
package
that
gets
done
tomorrow.
So
I
want
to
recognize
the
senator's
incredible
leadership
and
then
my
friend
years
and
years,
former
congresswoman
now
one
of
the
principal
leaders
on
the
la
board
of
supervisors,
janice
han,
has
just
been
an
amazing
partner
and
advocate,
and
when
I
say
advocate
she
demands
more
of
all
of
us
and
she's.
C
She
knows
we're
capable
of
doing
better,
and
I
can
assure
you
when
robert
was
just
saying
the
mayor
was
just
saying
about
having
access
to
cell
phone
supervisor.
Hans
certainly
has
access
to
mine,
and
she
has
been
fierce
in
terms
of
her
conviction,
her
faith
and
devotion
to
the
cause
that
unites
each
and
every
one
of
us
here
today,
including
getting
our
schools
safely
reopened.
I
just
want
to
applaud
her
for
not
being
timid
at
a
time.
We
need
leadership,
we
need
people
to
step
up
and
step
in.
C
We
need
people
with
clarity
and
conviction,
and
she
demonstrably
has
that
as
well.
These
are
three
remarkable
leaders,
I'm
honored
to
be
with
them
here
today,
I'm
honored
to
be
with
all
of
you
here
down
in
long
beach
today.
I
want
to
thank
everybody
all
across
the
state
for
their
patience.
Their
perseverance
and
I've
said
this
yesterday
I'll
say
it
again.
Today,
multiple
stops
throughout
the
state
and
I'll
say
it
tomorrow.
C
In
the
upcoming
days,
we
are
making
progress,
there's
not
just
light
at
the
end
of
the
tunnel,
there's
a
bright
light
at
the
end
of
the
tunnel,
and
let
me
just
close
by
putting
a
punctuation
point
on
that
3.0
percent
positivity
rate
today
just
consider
30
days
ago.
It
was
point
nine
percent,
three
percent.
Today,
it's
a
third
of
what
it
was
just
a
month
ago,
a
month
ago,
today
we
reported
the
highest
number
of
deaths
ever
recorded
in
the
state
of
california
764..
C
Today
we
report,
tragically
still
too
many
233
deaths,
but
a
far
cry
of
where
we
were
just
a
month
ago.
Today,
a
month
ago
today
we
were
23
000
cases
reported
of
covid
today,
just
shy
of
forty
seven
hundred
twenty
three
thousand
to
forty
seven
hundred
two
weeks
ago
today,
our
hospitalizations
and
icu
admissions
were
significantly
higher
than
where
they
are
today
down.
41
percent
and
39
respectfully
41
percent
decline,
hospitalizations
39
decline
in
the
icus.
C
We
are
in
a
much
better
place
than
we've
been
in
some
time.
Vaccination
increasing
continuing
to
see
pace
of
reopening
safely
with
the
modifications
getting
our
kids
started,
playing
sports
again
safely.
Now,
competition
now
opening
up,
but
the
fundamental
reason
I'm
here
not
only
to
celebrate
success,
but
also
to
reinforce
the
example
of
leadership
down
here
of
reopening
our
schools
and
the
essential
importance
that
we
place
on
getting
our
youngest
kids.
In
particular,
our
special
needs:
kids,
our
foster,
kids,
our
homeless,
kids,
kids,
representing
the
diversity
of
this
state.
C
Those
youngest
kids
are
not
getting
the
quality
education
they
otherwise
would
on
zoom
school,
as
my
four-year-old
refers
to
it,
and
that's
why
it's
critical
that
we
safely
get
them
back
into
schools
as
quickly
as
we
can
long.
Beach
is
a
model
and
we
hope
to
see
that
replicated
throughout
this
county
and
throughout
the
rest
of
the
state
of
california.
With
that
one
of
the
leaders
in
this
county,
that's
supervisor,
janice.
D
Your
incredible
hard
work
day
in
and
day
out
for
the
people
of
california,
none
of
us
in
elective
office
ever
trained
to
govern
during
a
pandemic
and
the
decisions
that
we've
all
been
asked
to
make.
While
we
thread
the
needle
between
protecting
people's
public
health
and
protecting
people's
jobs
and
the
economy
has
really
been
untenable
for
all
of
us.
You
have
shown
great
leadership.
D
D
It
is
really
an
incredible
package
and
we
thank
you
for
doing
that
and
of
course
thank
you,
mayor,
robert
garcia,
and
for
your
team
here
in
your
health
department,
for
really
getting
the
job
done
and
getting
long
beach
vaccinated
and
beyond.
We
did
just
have
an
opportunity
to
tour
the
vaccination
site
here
at
the
convention
center
and
talk
to
the
people
running
this
effort.
D
I
talked
to
two
school
nurses
here.
In
long
beach,
school
nurses
are
a
rarity
in
themselves.
These
two
nurses
said
what
they're
doing
here.
Vaccinating
people
was
the
high
point
of
their
calling
as
a
nurse.
That's
how
important
vaccination
has
become
and
long
beach's
vaccination
effort
has
become
a
model
and
because
you've
been
able
to
be
nimble
and
effective,
you
were
able
to
vaccinate
your
health
care
workers
quickly.
Then
you
moved
on
to
vaccinate
seniors
quickly
and
now
you're
in
the
process
of
vaccinating
child
care
workers,
food
industry
workers.
D
I
would
like
to
see
a
bigger
allotment.
I
want
to
say
this
mayor
garcia.
I
want
to
see
a
bigger
allotment
of
doses
to
come
to
you.
You've
shown
that
you
take
your
doses
and
you
get
them
out
quickly
and
you
move
through
all
these
sectors,
while
sometimes
the
rest
of
the
county
seems
to
be
struggling.
I
want
to
see
you
get
more
doses,
so
you
can
help
us
vaccinate
signal
hill
and
lakewood
and
catalina.
D
I
would
love
to
see
you
just
get
more
doses
so
governor
you
and
I
are
going
to
work
together
to
get
long
beach,
more
doses
because
they
know
how
to
do
it
right
and
you
know
before
I
hand
the
microphone
over
to
state
senator
lena
gonzalez.
I
just
want
to
say
how
inspiring
it
is
to
see
my
friend
mayor,
garcia,
leading
this
effort.
D
You
know:
we've
lost
almost
20
000
souls
to
this
virus
here
in
l.a
county
two
of
those
were
his
parents
and
the
grief
that
he
must
have
felt,
and
yet
every
single
day
showed
up
to
continue
to
advocate
for
testing
and
vaccines,
so
that
other
families
would
not
experience
the
grief
that
he
did.
That's
inspiring.
D
E
E
It's
the
types
of
innovative
strategies
here
in
long
beach
like
large
vaccination
sites,
translation
and
interpretation
services
such
as
spanish
and
kamai,
and
listening
and
collecting
public
input
from
the
community
as
well
as
using
mobile
vaccine
sites.
I
also
want
to
thank
the
governor
as
well
for
having
a
mobile
vaccine
site
in
the
city
of
bell
in
the
southeast
communities,
which
is
very,
very
important
for
l.a
county.
E
C
F
C
I
assure
you,
in
the
conversations
we're
having
in
sacramento
conversations
with
groups
large
and
small,
consistently
long
breach
is
called
out
as
an
example
of
a
district,
and
a
community
that
should
be
looked
at
should
be
considered
and
should
be
modeled
in
terms
of
their
efforts.
So
I
just
highlight
that
as
a
contemporary
point,
but
I
can
go
back
to
the
beginning
of
this
pandemic
and
the
work
in
terms
of
getting
ppe
the
work
that
was
done
to
get
testing
sites
up
and
operational.
C
No,
I
appreciate
look.
I
spent
a
good
part
of
yesterday
in
the
community.
I
noted
where
we
were
in
inglewood
boyle
heights.
We
were
actually
at
a
public
housing
project
at
the
boys
and
girls
club
in
the
public
housing
project,
disproportionately
latino
romano
gardens
remarkable
community,
knocking
on
doors,
talk
about
meeting
people
where
they
are
look
at
the
end
of
the
day.
A
lot
of
these
mass
vaccination
sites
are
fantastic
if
you
own
a
car,
these
mass
vaccination
sites
are
wonderful.
C
If
you
have
access
to
the
tools
of
technology
to
be
able
to
figure
out
navigate
how
to
get
a
reservation.
These
things
are
wonderful
if
you
have
the
privilege
of
even
learning
about
the
fact
that
they
even
exist,
but
for
so
many
communities
in
this
state,
the
most
diverse
state
in
the
world's
most
diverse
democracy,
california,
we
have
a
special
and
unique
obligation
to
meet
people
where
they
are
in
language.
C
We
put
out
grants
to
110
cbo's
community
based
organizations
in
this
state
in
order
to
meet
people
where
they
are
literally,
not
figuratively,
not
rhetorically,
not
as
a
platitude,
but
to
truly
as
trusted
messengers
go
into
these
communities,
educate
people,
organize
people
and
encourage
and
identify
sites
to
do
pop-up
and
mobile
operations
like
those
we're
beginning
to
put
and
to
deploy
all
throughout
the
state
of
california.
That's
foundational.
C
C
H
Governor
thanks
again
for
visiting
southern
california,
chris
and
carlo,
with
kfi
news,
a
couple
questions
number
one
look
at
what
long
beach
has
done
successfully
go
up
to
710
to
pasadena
they've
been
vaccinating
teachers
for
just
as
long
as
long
beach.
The
two
things
about
those
cities
is:
they
have
their
own
health
departments.
You
look
at
la
county
as
a
whole.
Obviously,
a
different
situation.
Does
this
show
the
need
to
reform
public
health
in
california.
C
Well,
I
have
strong
opinions
about
reforming
public
health
writ
large.
In
fact,
we've
put
out
some
very
dynamic
proposals
in
this
space.
One
fundamental
proposal:
it's
called
cal-
aim
I'll
spare
you
the
details,
but
it
is
a
once
in
a
generation
complete
reform
of
our
medi-cal
system,
medicaid
nationwide
medical
here
in
the
state
of
california.
C
That
foundationally
goes
to
the
core
of
that
question
in
my
response
to
that
question
in
terms
of
provider
payments
and
different
strategies
to
incentivize
the
integration
of
brain
health
and
physical
health
and
to
restructure
our
approach
to
true
community-based,
culturally
competent
healthcare
delivery
in
this
state.
But
I
I
think
your
example
of
some
of
that
autonomy.
C
Some
of
that
jurisdictional
frame
is,
is
the
right
question,
because
you're
seeing
examples,
stubborn
examples
that
are
a
complete
opposite
in
terms
of
the
burdens,
the
labyrinth
that
some
others
face
as
small
communities
as
it
relates
to
their
county
health
jurisdictions,
where
they
just
don't
have
the
privileges
and
opportunities
of
direct
engagement.
And
so
the
answer
is
yes.
I
think
it
only
affords
further
opportunity
to
underscore
the
need
to
comprehensively
reform
our
healthcare
delivery
system
writ
large
here.
In
the
state.
I
Good
morning,
governor
jaime
garcia
from
univision,
let
me
ask
you:
can
you
help
us
to
understand
how
this
inequality,
this
difference
between
the
vaccines
to
the
latin
community,
the
african-american
community
and
the
white
community
are
happening
and
how
hard
is
for
you
to
get
from
the
federal
government
enough
vaccines
to
satisfy
the
largest
economic
powerhouse
in
the
country?
Thank
you.
No.
C
C
We
have
the
capacity
to
get
about
four.
Our
goal
is
to
build
out
a
system
with
capacity
to
get
to
four
million
doses
that
we
can
administer
each
and
every
week
we
again
are
designed
a
system
that
today
has
the
supply
constraint.
That's
why
we've
only
been
able
to
achieve
1.4
million,
because
we've
run
out
of
supplies
and
that's
why
sites
like
this
have
toggled
back
they're,
not
fully
operationalized.
C
So,
as
modern
and
pfizer
vaccine
are
manufactured,
more
and
more
coming
to
the
state
we'll
be
able
to
increase
that
throughput,
we
have
j
and
j.
We
hope
as
early
as
this
week
gets
emergency
use
authorization.
This
will
be
what
most
of
us
will
be
covering
in
a
few
days,
the
likely
emergency
youth
authorization
of
the
jnj
single
dose
vaccine.
That
then,
will
provide
us
window
and
opportunities.
What
those
vaccine
distributions
look
like
into
march.
Here's
what
I
think
we
can
look
forward
to.
C
So
I
asked
people
mindful
again
of
being
optimistic,
but
not
overly
optimistic,
that
over
the
course,
the
next
number
of
weeks
we're
still
going
to
be
in
a
constrained
supply
environment,
but
over
the
course
of
the
next
few
months,
you're
going
to
see
throughput
and
opportunity
to
expand
these
tiers
and
expand
availability
and
access
and
to
allow
us
to
drive
this
equity,
not
just
message
but
to
drive
the
administration
of
these
vaccines
with
an
equitable
overlay.
That
will
truly
do
justice
to
the
values
of
the
state.
J
Good
morning,
governor
tony
ginyard,
nbc
4
news,
thanks
for
letting
us
ask
questions
today,
being
realistic
on
the
supply
issue,
with
the
vaccine,
we're
looking
at
large
sites
in
la
city
having
to
be
shut
down,
weather
and
shortage,
expanding
eligibility
on
march
1st.
Is
that
realistic,
and
also
one
component
of
the
recall
campaign
that
we've
been
hearing
time
and
time
again
is
the
handling
of
the
vaccine
issue?
Is
it
a
distraction?
C
We're
focused
every
single
day
on
getting
more
doses
into
people's
arms,
and
we've
done
that
again.
There's
a
few
nations
in
the
world
that
have
administered
more
vaccines
in
the
state
of
california.
I
don't
know
any
other
state,
that's
averaging
200,
000
vaccine
doses
being
administered
on
a
daily
basis,
1.4
million
again,
just
in
the
last
week
we
just
48
hours
ago,
administered
some
244
000
doses
only
constraint
now
manufactured
supply
national
basis.
I've
had
the
privilege
of
being
all
throughout
this
state
we're
going
to
three
other
communities
this
afternoon
and
you're
absolutely
correct.
C
We
are
starting
to
see
in
every
part
of
the
state
these
sites
pull
back
on
the
basis
of
limited
manufactured
supply.
That's
a
nationwide
issue,
including,
and
I
appreciate
your
question-
the
subtext,
your
question,
weather
related
impacts
associated
with
702
000
doses
of
vaccines
that
have
been
delayed
in
the
state
of
california
because
of
the
impact
of
that
weather
system
to
the
supply
chain
across
this
country.
Pfizer
was
able
to
get
through
most
their
vaccines.
Moderna
was
a
little
bit
more
delayed
we'll
make
up
for
that.
C
But
there
are
some
hiccups,
but
you
asked
a
fundamental
question
and
let
me
directly
answer:
I
have
no
trepidation
in
saying
this.
We're
going
to
get
that
10
percent
set
aside
that
10
set
aside
is
going
to
happen.
It's
going
to
happen
later
this
week,
the
first
of
march
and
we're
going
to
move
forward,
and
that
is
a
commitment
and
we
are
resolved
to
get
that
done,
for
our
teachers
and
for
our
educators.
C
Well,
I'm
going
to
take
advantage
of
that
and
and
then
take
advantage
of,
of
thanking
each
and
every
one
of
you
for
the
privilege
of
your
time
and
thank
everybody
for
the
opportunity
update,
but,
moreover,
just
thank
all
the
incredible
men
and
women
that
are
here,
making
this
site
and
so
many
sites
here
in
long
beach
possible,
led
by
your
extraordinary
mayor,
mayor,
garcia.
Thank
you
all
very,
very
much.