¯ What: No-cost, single-dose COVID-19 vaccine clinic.
¯ Where: Cutler Community Center, 4550 Two Mile Run Road, Cutler.
¯ When: Noon to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 22.
¯ To schedule an appointment: Visit www.ohio.edu/medicine/covidclinic or call 740-593-0175 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Source: Washington
County Health Department.
CUTLER The Cutler Community Center hosted a free, single-dose COVID-19 vaccine clinic Thursday, the first of two this month.
Nurses from Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine administered the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine to more than 100 local residents during the event.
Carole Merckle, assistant director, area health education, center and community health programs, said it was a great turnout for the area.
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As the nation kicked off National Public Health Week, turmoil and change has continued in local administrations.
¯ Marietta-Belpre Health Department
Concerns about the joint health department encompassing both of Washington County’s cities have residents and other health workers questioning the impacts on elderly and homeless or transient individuals’ access to coronavirus vaccination in the middle of a pandemic.
Marietta Law Director Paul Bertram confirmed Monday the department remains under investigation by both city administrations and by the (Ohio) State Employee Relations Board for the removal of former Director of Nursing Vickie Sawyer, which followed the exit in 2020 of Director of Nursing Beth Casto and the resignation this year of Health Commissioner Anne Goon.
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Photos by Janelle Patterson
The first mass vaccination clinic with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine against coronavirus in Marietta was held Saturday at the Memorial Health System Wayne Street Medical Campus.
Snaking around the Wayne Street medical campus, close to the Ohio River, more than 1,400 individuals in their vehicles were vaccinated Saturday in Marietta’s first mass-vaccination clinic with the Johnson and Johnson single-dose innoculation from coronavirus.
At the entrance to the campus, across the street from Memorial Health System’s laboratory where many get their bloodwork done, greeters welcomed those with appointments and filed them into the two lanes, wrapping around the hillside parking lot.