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Health professionals weren’t caught flat-footed Wednesday morning with Gov. Jim Justice announcing that the age range for COVID-19 vaccinations will drop to 70, effective Wednesday.
They welcomed the opportunity to continue vaccinating new groups — as long as the vaccine doses kept coming.
Marshall County Threat Preparedness Director Mark Ackermann said the department was happy to get to work vaccinating a new range of clients.
Ackermann said that even before the announcement was made Wednesday morning, the Ohio, Marshall and Wetzel county health departments had been scheduled for a phone conference to become a new regional clinic.
“We’re told that we should be becoming one of these clinic sites, they’re doing regionally. We’ve already got a planning meeting scheduled for (today),” Ackermann said. “We’re looking forward to it. Our 80-year-old clinics that we’ve done have gone very well, they were very eager.”