Vaccinations at Paso Robles Event Center. The Paso Robles Vaccination Clinic at the Paso Robles Event Center is closing next week because of a lack of doses of the Coronavirus vaccine. After receiving as many as 4,000 doses in previous weeks, the San Luis Obispo County Health Department received only 900 doeses from the State of California. The quantity of doses is the greatest determinate in calculating how many people are vaccinated.
Friday, local fire officials conducted a tour for the media of the Vaccination Clinic set up at the Paso Robles Event Center. Fire Captain Charles Brown of the Paso Robles Fire Department and Adan Orozco, Public Information Officer of Cal Fire, escorted the media through the temporary vaccination center. Charles Brown explained protocol, and told the reporters that the vaccination process would be interrupted during the tour so that no one receiving a vaccine would feel their rights to privacy were being violated.
The vaccination center is staffed by people from all over the country. The media met several workers from Mississippi who had been trained and flown in to Paso Robles to help with the vaccination process. Brown said that the number of vaccines administered Friday was light because of the relatively small number of doses distributed to the county. He said the state did not offer an explanation for the reduced number of doses. He said the state is currently building huge vaccination centers in Oakland and Los Angeles. That may have impacted the number of doses directed to San Luis Obispo County, but that’s only speculation.
The Vaccination Clinic at the Paso Robles Event Center will reopen February 16th. The Vaccination Center at Cuesta College near San Luis Obispo will continue to operate next week. To get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccination or to get more information go to WWW.SLOReady.org.