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In ‘race’ toward herd immunity, Kalamazoo County holds large-scale vaccine clinics
Posted May 06, 2021
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The clinic was hosted at the Kalamazoo County Expo Center on Wednesday, May 5.
People with appointments came to receive vaccination shots at the clinic, which has capacity to administer up to 3,000 doses. Several said they were there for their second vaccine dose.
“We are at a race to get to herd immunity before a variant emerges that the vaccine may not protect us against,” Health Officer Jim Rutherford said in a statement Wednesday.
“In a sense, we need enough of the population vaccinated so that if a new variant emerges it does not have the fuel it needs to continue to spread because the vaccine is protecting the majority of the population,” Rutherford said.