Tuesday, Wednesday clinics in Monett would have inoculated 2,500
Mass vaccination clinics scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday at the Monett Park Casino have been canceled due to the dangerously cold temperatures and possibility of additional snow.
The clinics were a planned cooperative event between Barry and Lawrence counties, the state of Missouri, and the Centers for Disease Control to vaccinate eligible people. Those eligible included residents over 65 years of age, individuals with health conditions that increase the risk of serious illness from COVID, health care workers, and first responders.
These clinics would have been capable of vaccinating nearly all of the 2,500 eligible people on health department waiting lists for vaccine in Barry and Lawrence counties.