Pressure's mounting on FEMA to keep the big COVID-19 vaccination site at Cal State LA open.
The agency's due to pull out of that site and another one at the Oakland Coliseum in the coming days.
Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla are calling on FEMA to continue to provide "financial and logistical support" to both sites, which are administering a total of more than 7,500 shots a day.
They note, in a letter to the agency's acting administrator, that California is expanding eligibility to all adults on April 15 and say "this is precisely the time when mass vaccination sites...are needed."
Local officials are trying to keep the Cal State LA site going.
Dr. Paul Simon, with the county's public health department, said Friday that LA city and county officials were considering a number of options.
"We recognize it's a really important site and in no way want to scale back vaccination infrastructure. We are fairly confident we are going to be getting an increase of supplies of vaccines and so want to be well prepared to deliver it swiftly," he says.
The FEMA-run sites get their doses directly from the federal government.
Congressman Jimmy Gomez, who's also written to FEMA about this, describes the sites' operations as "a vital supplement" to the doses being provided by local and state officials.