In 'the place for hopes and dreams,' local officials are failing some of this county's most vulnerable neighbors.
Los Angeles County residents have died of Covid-19. The most vulnerable groups are seniors and people with disabilities, especially those that are homebound. The LA County Board of Supervisors should have made homebound people a priority. Instead, it failed them throughout the pandemic and continues to fail them today.
We knew that Barnard Way residents were far from the only LA County residents facing a lack of response from the County. Hence, we organized and formed COMIT, the"Coalition for Mobile In-Home Testing and Vaccinations." COMIT activists in each of the five supervisorial districts lobbied the County to support homebound residents.
This is Los Angeles, the place for hopes and dreams. Our Board of Supervisors is a liberal governmental body that cares for the elderly, the poor, the disabled, and people from across the world. Especially given our large communities of color and their health disparities, we trusted that the County would be a national leader in homebound vaccinations.
1) Issue a report to the public every two weeks with the number of vaccinations given through the homebound program.Los Angeles Times3) Inform each elected official in the county of the program so that they can promote it to their constituents.To date, we have not had one clear answer to our asks. Instead, we're constantly told"we will get back to you" or"not my department.
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