About the Vaccine in SoCal

The Anaheim theme park is open for widespread vaccine distribution. Toni Guinyard reports for Today in LA on Wednesday Jan. 13, 2021.

California is transforming baseball stadiums, fairgrounds and even a Disneyland Resort parking lot into mass vaccination sites as the coronavirus surge overwhelms hospitals and sets a deadly new record in the state.

The world-famous Anaheim theme park will be part of the effort to halt the global pandemic. Toni Guinyard reports for Today in LA on Tuesday Jan. 12, 2020.

The U.S. kicked off an an unprecedented inoculation campaign this week with a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech. Another vaccine from Moderna, which was co-developed with the National Institutes of Health, moved closer to joining the fight against the pandemic with the endorsement Thursday from a panel of experts. Th...

Medical experts compare the Pfizer and Moderna options. Joel Grover reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020.

The first coronavirus vaccine to roll out is being made by Pfizer and BioNTech and takes a new approach to protecting you from infection by using what is called messenger RNA or mRNA. Unlike a traditional vaccine, this new one relies on genetic code to stimulate an immune response against COVID-19. Here are the details.

With her co-workers cheering her on, an intensive care unit nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Monday received one of the first doses in the state of a long-awaited vaccine to prevent COVID-19. Helen Cordova sat patiently and joked with other medical personnel as she was given the Pfizer vaccine — administered with a shot in her right arm...

Los Angeles Unified School District campuses would be an ideal setting for administering COVID-19 vaccines to students and their families, Superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday, while again imploring elected officials to provide financial support for schools to prepare for an eventual return to in-person instruction.

Hospitals in Southern California will be among the first recipients of COVID-19 vaccine shipments. Toni Guinyard reports for Today in LA on Monday Dec. 14, 2020.

Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange will be among the first hospitals to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Michelle Valles reports for Today in LA on Monday Dec. 14, 2020.

The start of vaccinations at nursing homes represents a significant milestone in the pandemic, because long-term care facilities have been particularly hard hit.

While access to COVID-19 testing proved to be somewhat easier for the wealthy and well connected, experts say vaccine availability will be tightly controlled and difficult for ineligible recipients to obtain.

The COVID-19 virus changes a little bit each time it’s spread — and scientists will have to keep a close eye on how those changes affect its behavior toward vaccines.