Hermiston High Schoolâs parking lot has been mostly empty for the past year, but on Friday, Jan. 29, a long line of vehicles snaked through it, ending at a set of white tents.
Inside the tents, drivers rolled up their sleeves and nurses reached through car windows to deliver doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Bri Silva, operations manager for Little Tots Daycare & Preschool in Hermiston, was taking selfies while she waited in line, barely able to contain her excitement.
âIâm so stoked,â she said.
After previously limiting vaccinations to categories such as health care workers and nursing home residents, Oregon opened COVID-19 vaccinations to people working in education and child care on Jan. 25. Umatilla County officials estimated they had enough doses to vaccinate about 25% of the countyâs educators during the Hermiston clinic and one held the day before in Pendleton.