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Repurposed Scarborough Downs gets up and running as $1 million mass vaccination site
MaineHealth expected to vaccinate 115 people at the former harness racing track Wednesday and says it could handle as many as 2,000 vaccinations a day if supplies permit.
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The first floor of the grandstand at the former Scarborough Downs racetrack is lit early Wednesday morning as workers from MaineHealth prepare for the first day of COVID-19 vaccinations at the clinic. Derek Davis/Staff Photographer
SCARBOROUGH – Just a few moments after he received his COVID-19 vaccination Wednesday, Robyn Goshorn was asked how he felt.
“Grateful to be here,” the 73-year-old from South Portland said. “And a little guilty too, I guess, to think of all the people who are still waiting. But we have a wise physician friend who said if you have the chance to get the vaccine, get it.”
Mass vaccination clinic at Scarborough Downs opens Wednesday
The high-volume vaccine clinic is operated by MaineHealth, and officials say it will be able to vaccinate 2,000 per day when vaccines are more readily available. Author: Sean Stackhouse (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 8:08 AM EST February 3, 2021 Updated: 6:19 PM EST February 3, 2021
SCARBOROUGH, Maine On Wednesday, Maine s second mass vaccination clinic opened. MaineHealth is operating the high-volume vaccine clinic taking place at the former Scarborough Downs harness racing track.
Officials with MaineHealth say the 30,000-square-foot clinic is expected to have the capacity to vaccinate up to 2,000 people a day, once it is fully up and running and vaccine supply increases.
COVID-19 Vaccinations Begin At Scarborough Downs
The high-volume COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the former Scarborough Downs harness racing track is now open.
The space was donated by developer Crossroads Holdings. In just 15 days, the former racetrack’s grandstand was retrofitted with clinical stations that will ultimately see thousands flow through for the COVID-19 vaccine. But on the first official opening day, a little more than 100 people were scheduled to get a shot, including 73-year-old Robyn Goshorn.
“This is my first trip to the racetrack,” he says with a laugh.
Goshorn and his 79-year-old wife, Alice, got the vaccine Wednesday morning during an event for the media. On their way to the clinic, Alice says the couple thought about their new grandson, who was born last spring in Chicago.