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MANSFIELD - Appointments are now open for a drive-through, mass vaccination clinic at the Richland County Fairgrounds, Richland Public Health announced Tuesday.
COVID-19 vaccine shots are being scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. The mobile clinic, 750 Home Road, will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on those days.
To book an appointment, call 1-833-4-ASK-ODH (1-833-427-5634) or go to gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.gov (enter ZIP code 44906 in the search bar.)
Appointment times will be released as determined by vaccine allocation and demand, Richland Public Health said in a news release.
How many are available?
About 400 doses will be available each day at the clinic, which will run Wednesdays and Thursdays and select Saturdays through the first week of June.
Jan. 12, 2021 4:55 pm ET
After a week of unsuccessful attempts to book an appointment for a Covid-19 vaccine, Katie Solovey’s parents turned to her for help.
The 34-year-old’s parents spend their winters in Siesta Key, Fla., part of Sarasota County, which is using Eventbrite Inc.’s ticketing platform to schedule vaccine appointments. The platform is familiar to Ms. Solovey, but not to some older people including her parents, who are in their 70s, she said. Her father was also using a first-generation iPad on a shaky wireless connection, making it hard to enter all the information required before the system timed him out.
US officials ask residents to use party-invite sites to sign up for Covid vaccine
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It’s the most massive vaccine rollout in U.S. history, but many local governments are consigning patient appointments to web-based services better known for handling birthday-party RSVPs and online yoga sessions.
Several Florida counties have deployed Eventbrite. Some Oklahoma governments dabbled with SignUpGenius and one New Jersey county was still using the service. Elsewhere, some seekers of Covid-19 protection reported hours-long holds on appointment hotlines only to be disconnected or logging on to websites that lock them out.