Event organizers said any leftover open vaccine vials will be given to people in the available tiers on a standby list.
UPDATE: 1,802 doses of vaccine were administered at Friday s vaccination event, Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Senior Services spokesperson Sarah Humm said in a statement Friday.
The county had 2,300 doses available. Remaining doses will be given to homebound individuals and local vaccinators.
Humm said they experienced a large number of people not show up for their appointment. We ask if folks sign up at multiple locations that they please be sure to cancel any unneeded appointments ahead of time. This not only simplifies the process for our local vaccinators, but it also helps get vaccine into the arms of people who need it, Humm said.
The downward trend in COVID-19 cases in Boone County is a positive step to work toward the end of the pandemic.
COLUMBIA- With vaccines having to play catch-up, the lower cases in Boone County have been a promising sign. In Boone County, I believe the contributing factors to our decline in the number of cases of COVID-19 is that our public, our community, is doing the right thing, Mary Beck, the Chief Nursing Officer at MU Health Care, said.
Beck was one of the speakers at the Feb. 10 community briefing, where Boone County modified its public health order to allow bars and restaurants that serve alcohol to stay open until midnight. This change has been in affect since Feb. 12 at noon.
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Boone County Columbia Health Department will randomly draw names for vaccine
COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ)
The Columbia/Boone County Health Department will provide left over doses of Pfizer vaccine to individuals in Tier 2 of Phase 1B who are on the waiting list after completing the online survey.
The health department will randomly draw names of those who are on the vaccine waiting list to come to their Columbia vaccination site to receive the Pfizer vaccine. The department will call those on the Tier 2 vaccination waiting list between 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Those individuals are asked to come to the designated vaccination clinic site within 30 minutes. If someone is unable to make the time slot, the department will proceed with choosing someone next on the list.