Golden Gate Fields Races To Make Up For Missed Vaccine Appointments

Alameda CA

05 March, 2021

5:16 PM

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By Andrea Nakano, CBS San Francisco: ALBANY (KPIX) — Golden Gate Fields is racing to make up missed vaccine appointments after animal rights activists shut down the racetrack-turned-vaccination-site on the Albany-Berkeley border Thursday. According to the spokesperson for the city of Berkeley, roughly 200 appointments were canceled. On Thursday night lights were back on at Golden Gate Fields as horse racing resumed — exactly what protesters were trying to stop. They perhaps didn't imagine their actions would lead to the shutdown of Berkeley's mass-vaccination site. "We see no reason they had to shut down the vaccination site," said animal-rights activist Almira Tanner. "As you can see, we're on the opposite end." Read more at CBS San Francisco