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Hundreds of cars in the amusement park parking lot…

The state of Maryland, USA, installed a corona19 vaccination center in the parking lot of Six Flags America, an amusement park on the 5th. [김필규 특파원]

– 7th (local time) Six Flags America, an amusement park in Maryland, USA. Cars flocked from the morning through sub-zero weather and snowfall in this winter season, which was closed. These are those who visited the corona 19 vaccine’Mega’ inoculation site in the amusement park parking lot.

Inoculation station on the 50,000㎡ site of the amusement park parking lot
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– The reason why this place was chosen as the new inoculation site is because of the large area. As it is the largest amusement facility in the state, it is an attached parking lot next to the park, but the area is over 50,000 square meters. It goes well beyond the size (1400m2) set by the federal government as a large-scale inoculation center that can inoculate more than 6,000 people per day.

Playgrounds can be seen behind the corona19 vaccination center in the parking lot of Six Flags America, which Maryland, USA prepared on the 5th. [WJZ 캡처]

Playgrounds can be seen behind the corona19 vaccination center in the parking lot of Six Flags America, which Maryland, USA prepared on the 5th. [WJZ 캡처]

Four large tents were installed in the center of the COVID-19 vaccination center in the Six Flags America parking lot in Maryland, USA.  Vehicles went in two rows each, allowing them to get a quick shot. [김필규 특파원]

Four large tents were installed in the center of the COVID-19 vaccination center in the Six Flags America parking lot in Maryland, USA. Vehicles went in two rows each, allowing them to get a quick shot. [김필규 특파원]

– Following the cars into the vaccination site, it was basically no different from the’drive-through’ type test center.

Several layers of safety cones were installed on one side of the parking lot so that hundreds of cars could wait. In the four large tents installed in the center, injections could be taken without getting out of the car. Two rows of cars were placed in one tent, so it was possible to inoculate 8 people at a time. The cotton swab that went between the windows of the car at the corona test station was turned into an injection at the inoculation station.

The’observation space’ provided on one side is also a facility that cannot be seen at the inspection station. Here, those who have been vaccinated leave their car for 15 to 30 minutes and watch for an allergic reaction.

State Defense Forces were deployed to maintain order throughout the inoculation stations. To minimize face-to-face contact, vaccination applications were only received online, and there was almost no window down in the parking lot.

The state of Maryland, USA, installed a corona19 vaccination center in the parking lot of Six Flags America, an amusement park on the 5th.  State National Guard personnel are working on vaccinations. [WBAL 캡처]

The state of Maryland, USA, installed a corona19 vaccination center in the parking lot of Six Flags America, an amusement park on the 5th. State National Guard personnel are working on vaccinations. [WBAL 캡처]

– Ann Doshi (72), who received the vaccination here, said, “I watched the elderly standing in a long line in front of the hospital to get the vaccine elsewhere,” he said. “I waited a long time in the car, but it was relatively comfortable.”

Currently, in most states such as Maryland, workers in essential industries such as healthcare and education, and seniors aged 65 and over are eligible for vaccination. In preparation for an unexpected situation that could occur in the air, the message “I’ll go to you if I sound the horn” was flickering on the display board installed in the middle.

The group inoculation center opened on the 5th. “We have 250 vaccinations on the first day, but we will increase the number of vaccinations to 6000 a day,” said Acting State Health Minister Dennis Schredder.

On the same day, mass inoculation centers were also opened at Yankee Stadium in New York and the Moscone Center, the largest exhibition hall in San Francisco. Roger Gooddel, governor of the National Football League (NFL), who finished the Super Bowl on the 7th, announced that he would provide the national football stadiums as a group vaccination site.

The federal government is also putting considerable effort into mass inoculation centers. While providing personnel and systems support to each state, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the Department of Homeland Security has decided to set up and operate 100 group inoculation stations within this month. It is because it is possible to increase the speed of vaccination and to have a great promotional effect.

USA Today reports that these clusters will play a key role in keeping President Joe Biden’s pledge to vaccinate 1.5 million people every day during his 100 days in office.

In recent weeks, the average number of vaccinations per day in the United States has risen to about 1.3 million, and the number of people who have been vaccinated more than once has crossed the 30 million mark.

On the 5th, citizens are waiting for the vaccination in front of the COVID-19 vaccination center in the Yankee Stadium in New York, USA. [AP=연합뉴스]

On the 5th, citizens are waiting for the vaccination in front of the COVID-19 vaccination center in the Yankee Stadium in New York, USA. [AP=연합뉴스]

– But again, the problem is vaccine supply. At the moment, injections are given only to those who are vaccinated first, but it is unclear whether the amount will be given if general vaccination is in progress. The Maryland inoculation center’s 6,000-person daily vaccination plan, proposed by Acting Secretary Shredder, also presupposes that the federal government will provide enough vaccines.

The first question is whether Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine can be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the end of this month. After Pfizer and Modena, CNN and others predicted that if a’third vaccine’ was distributed, group inoculation centers across the country could run much faster.

NBC said that the Biden government’s efforts in mass inoculation centers were “one of the most different from the Trump administration, when the government focused only on transporting vaccines and leaving the vaccinations alone.”

Maryland = Correspondent Pilkyu Kim [email protected]




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