Vaccination centers open on 8 CSU campuses

California State University has opened vaccination centers at eight of its campuses and is expected to open more soon, according to university officials.

The centers at Sacramento State, Cal Poly Pomona, San Francisco State, CSU San Marcos, Stanislaus State and CSU Northridge are open to the public. Cal State Long Beach, the first to open a vaccination site, and San Diego State have vaccination sites that serve only staff and students at the university.

“The CSU encourages all who are eligible and able to participate in the important Covid vaccine programs as they become available,” said Chancellor Joseph I. Castro. “By each of us doing our part, we will reach the herd immunity that “will be foundational to our collective return to a new normal.”

Most of the campus vaccination sites are operated by county health departments, with the help of school staff, while others, like Sacramento State, have been authorized by the state to be vaccine providers and are operating the centers themselves.

The next CSU vaccination site expected to open will be at Cal State Los Angeles. It will be the site of a large-scale community vaccination center operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services in order to reach underrepresented communities. It will open by Feb. 16, according to campus officials.