Alabama saw a 31% jump in COVID vaccines last week, now slowed by supply
Updated Feb 18, 2021;
Posted Feb 18, 2021
Large-scale COVID vaccination sites like this one at the Hoover Met Complex opened across Alabama in early February 2021.UAB Media Relations
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For one beautiful week, Alabama’s drive-thru vaccine clinics operated so smoothly, you’d think they also offered waffle-cut fries.
“People were commenting that we had a Chick-Fil-A type process,” said Maegan Austin, spokeswoman for Vaughan Regional Medical Center, which ran a drive-thru clinic in Selma that gave out its entire allotment of 5,000 vaccine doses in less than three days.