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The Oklahoma City-County Health Department announced that in an effort to continue to vaccinate residents ages 65 and older, the department is partnering with Mercy Health System to make about 5,600 appointments available outside the state’s scheduler portal this weekend.
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Slow distribution by feds hampering local vaccine efforts By: Janice Francis-Smith The Journal Record January 14, 2021
Local health officials say they could vaccinate more people if more supply was made available. (Photo by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Unsplash)
OKLAHOMA CITY – The fact that the Oklahoma City-County Health Department and the county’s large hospital systems have managed to administer more than 55,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine since Dec. 14 is all the more impressive when considering the challenges faced in obtaining and distributing the vaccine, members of the Oklahoma City-County Board of Health said Thursday.
“This is an ever-evolving situation,” OCCHD Executive Director Patrick McGough said during Thursday’s board meeting, held at the NE Regional Health & Wellness Campus at 2600 NE 63rd St. in Oklahoma City. Often, information received in the morning regarding how much vaccine is coming has become inaccurate by tha
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The Oklahoma City-County Health Department has chosen a developer for a multi-million dollar expansion to its campus. The expansion includes a new site for drive-thru testing and vaccinations.
The department said its $4.5 million expansion will happen in two phases with a 7,000-square foot drive-thru facility. The drive-thru facility is expected to be completed in July.
This will be primarily used for vaccinations and COVID-19 testing.
OCCHD Director Dr. Patrick McGough said the drive-thru will be a gamechanger once construction is finished. We will still be trying to get vaccines out to people, so it will have exponential impact as well, Dr. McGough said.