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The East Alabama Medical Center s Community Vaccine Clinic will soon wind down operations as requests for appointments have reached a plateau, according to news release issued by the hospital on Monday.Â
As of last Friday, the clinic had administered more than 72,000 doses of Pfizer s Covid-19 vaccine since it first opened on Feb. 1 during a time when the area was going through the worst surge of the pandemic and EAMC hospitalizations still hovered near 70.Â
The clinic itself represents a monumental effort by the Auburn-Opelika community to pool its resources to get Covid-19 vaccine doses in as many arms as possible.Â
EAMC, one of the first entities to start vaccinating people in the state, started administering Pfizer doses to the first wave of eligible citizens in December at its Education Center on Pepperell Parkway, where it was administering fewer than 500 doses a day. It quickly became apparent that the center could not accommodate the scale of what was needed for t