Nashville will begin accepting appointments Thursday morning for a new drive-thrucoronavirus vaccine site intended to open Monday in the city's southeast quadrant.
The vaccination center will open at the old Kmart location at 2491 Murfreesboro Road that has been used as a drive-thru testing site for about a year. Officials from Meharry Medical College will transition from running the testing site to the vaccination center, according to a news release from the Nashville Metro Public Health Department.
The vaccine site will exclusively distribute the one-dose vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson by appointment only. Nashville offered the J&J vaccine during a massive drive-thru event at Nissan Stadium last month. But the Kmart location will be the first city-run site to offer drive-thru vaccination on a daily basis.