1,500 more vaccine doses coming today

COVID CLINIC & CALL CENTER

The Orange County Health Care Agency is sending another 1,500 doses of the Pfizer vaccine for clinics that will be held today, Feb. 4, and Friday, Feb. 5.

This shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine is expected to cover all registered LWers with some to spare. It’s important for residents who want an inoculation to register as soon as possible.

The process is simple: People can register themselves or any LWSB resident at http://www.lwsb.com/vaccine/. Those registering others can simply use their own phone numbers and email addresses as the contacts for friends and neighbors. People must have GRF ID cards.

Last weekend, 1,400 residents received their initial doses of the vaccine, bringing the total injections administered in LW to over 2,500 in a two-week period.

So far, about 4,200 Leisure Worlders have registered to receive shots, either by Internet or telephone. All of them will be able to receive their inoculations as vaccine is supplied.

Help Register Elderly Neighbors

To help get everyone registered, the GRF is asking Leisure World residents to sign up their friends and neighbors who are not online or otherwise unaware of the availability of vaccine clinics in LW.

Churches and clubs, Mutual directors, building captains and other LW leaders have been asked to reach into their communities to get people registered as soon as possible.

The GRF would like to thank all its volunteers, from staff to residents, including 15 members of the Golden Age Foundation and Sunshine Club. Pictured here are Tammi Mohr from the LW Library (front) and Physical Property’s Susie Flynn. They registered LWers who don’t have Internet access for upcoming shot clinics (see page 2 for more). The sooner GRF can complete vaccinations for the majority, the sooner all amenities can be reopened.

For faster registration, have the following information ready:

•Name

•Name (living in same unit)

•Mutual Number

•Unit Number

•Email

•Phone number

•Date of birth All registered names will be added to a database of those who want the vaccination.

People under 65 will be entered into a separate database for when the vaccine is made available to them.

If one person in a couple is under 65, it is preferable to register together for the later date, or to register separately if the older person needs to be vaccinated sooner.

Names will be selected from the list at random as vaccine is received, and clinics are scheduled. People who are chosen will be contacted for appointments.

• People will be notified of appointments by email if they registered by email.

• Residents who registered their infirm or elderly friends will need to inform them of their appointment times and dates, and, if necessary, transport them or arrange for the Access bus to bring them to Clubhouse 6.

Because only 12 hours’ notice is given before receiving the vaccine, there is no choice of appointment times or dates. People must show up for vaccinations on the date and time specified.

Of Importance

• A family member may submit this registration for a resident who is unable to do.

•People must be available to take the second dose three weeks after the first dose.

•Couples will be scheduled together by completing the one form with both names.

•People who registered but have not been contacted by tomorrow, Feb. 5, should email the Recreation Department at andrewd@lwsb.com or call (562) 431-6586, ext. 326.

•People who are unable to complete registration by email and do not have a friend or relative to assist them should contact Cindy Tostado at (562) 431-6586, ext. 317, for a copy of the form to register manually or for personal assistance.

2nd Dose Clinics are Feb. 8-9

People who were inoculated Jan. 18 and 19 will receive their second doses in clinics scheduled for Feb. 8 and 9.

Each person who received the first vaccine on Jan. 18 and 19 also got an appointment card at that time. They are to return at the same time, same day of the week as their first shot.

The Orange County Health Care Agency’s Othena app erroneously notified some first-dose recipients to go to Disneyland for their second shot. The agency is looking into what caused the glitch, but GRF members can be assured that they will get their inoculations in Clubhouse 6.

A number of people who had appointments for last weekend’s first-shot clinic either canceled or did not show up.

When this happens, registrants are called at random from the standby list.

People who choose to give up a LW appointment and have the vaccine elsewhere are asked to notify Recreation so they can be removed from the registration roster, paving the way for others to be vaccinated.

Last weekend, the GRF was able to vaccinate about 100 standbys due to cancellations.

Random Selection for All

Residents have asked Recreation staff to move them up the vaccine list for various reasons.

Staff is required to offer the vaccine, without special consideration, to any GRF member, co-occupant or lessee over 65. To do this equitably, the computer randomly selects from the pool of LW registrants. Standbys are chosen the same way.

Staff does not choose or reject anybody.

It is a simple matter of mathematics: Nearly 10,000 people live here, and so far, 2,500 have been inoculated.

Vaccine is becoming more available, and everyone should be inoculated in upcoming clinics.

Residents are free to get their shots from another Point of Distribution but are asked to notify the GRF to take them off the registration list.

For more information, contact kathyt@lwsb.com.

Thank You Volunteers

The GRF would like to thank all its volunteers, from staff who came in over the weekend to work the call center, to LW residents, including 15 members of the Golden Age Foundation and Sunshine Club.

LW volunteers covered both clinics in morning and afternoon shifts.

GAF President Anna Derby was at the Information Center, helping Korean American shareholders navigate the clinic, and helpers were at the call center to answer phone lines dedicated to Korean speakers.

Heeja Almeida, in particular, deserves a big thank you for working the Korean speaking phone lines over the two days. —Kathy Thayer, assistant recreation manager