By: Jordan Dafnis
Oklahoma City -
Monday is another milestone for COVID-19 vaccination plans as a new group of Oklahomans are now eligible to get the vaccine.
Kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers and Oklahomans of any age with serious health conditions are eligible to get their shots. This will impact hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans.
Those now eligible due to comorbidities includes anyone with hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic lung, liver, or renal disease, and cancers.
Oklahoma Deputy Health Commissioner, Keith Reed says the state is also going to be careful to keep open appointments for earlier groups such as people age 65 and older.
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Oklahoma County and Tulsa County will soon be home to large-scale coronavirus vaccine sites known as mega-PODs.
The Oklahoma City-County Health Department and Tulsa Health Department announced separately Thursday they are working with The White House to create mass vaccination sites in the state s two most populous counties. Officials have been calling their vaccine clinics PODs, or points of dispensing sites.
Dr. Patrick McGough, OCCHD s executive director, said the partnership will create what is known as a mega-POD. This POD in partnership with the state of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the National Guard will have the capacity to vaccinate up to 6,000 individuals per day in [Oklahoma] County. And this will be for six to seven days a week, said McGough.