(4/20/2021)
Winona County Health and Human Services will be hosting a COVID-19 vaccination clinic today in Winona and on Thursday, April 22, from 4-5:30 p.m. in Lewiston. Appointments are preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. The Thursday clinic will be offered at the Lewiston Community Center at 75 Rice Street in Lewiston.
The Lewiston clinic will be open to anyone 16 years of age or older. Emergency Management Director Ben Klinger stated, “If you have been waiting for your turn, it is here. Many people have been waiting because they worry other people may need it more. Those high-risk populations have been reached, and now is the time for the general public to receive their vaccine. The Minnesota Department of Health has stated we should assume the COVID-19 variants are in all communities within Minnesota, and it is important to get vaccinated to stop that spread.”
WINONA, Minn. (KWNO)-Appointments and walk-ins are available for today’s COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the East End Rec Center in Winona.
Winona County Emergency Management Coordinator Ben Klinger said “If you have been waiting for your turn, it is here.” Klinger says the county has vaccinated the majority of residents considered part of the vulnerable populations.
The doses being used at today’s clinic are leftover from a clinic held late last week. People 18 and older who live or work in Winona County are eligible for a shot.
The clinic runs from 3-9 p.m. To schedule an appointment, click here.
By TJ
Photo: Winona County Emergency Management
(KWNO)-For the first time in the nearly four-month vaccination effort, Winona County has leftover COVID-19 vaccines.
Emergency Management Coordinator ben Klinger told KWNO the county has a couple hundred doses that went unused during Thursday’s clinic. The county will hold an appointment-only vaccine clinic on Tuesday, April 20 from 3-9 p.m. at the East End Rec. Center.
Klinger said over 80% of the Winona County seniors have gotten their shots.
“We’ll shift a little bit into evenings. We’re planning on clinics to be announced in the next couple of weeks in some of our smaller communities for people who might not be able to travel,” said Klinger when asked if the county will adjust the times and locations of clinics. “We’re just going to kind of tailor and move around and catch whoever we missed.”
Vaccine supplies not yet at targets; J&J pulled (4/14/2021)
Local COVID vaccination efforts are still making progress, but they suffered some setbacks this week. Federal allocations to Minnesota are still below the level state leaders said would soon be coming, and health officials paused administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine while regulators investigate the six incidents of vaccine recipients developing rare blood clots out of 6.8 million doses administered nationwide.
As part of their ongoing effort to carefully monitor the safety of COVID vaccines, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spotted six cases of a rare blood clot in the brain among women ages 18-48 occurring 6-13 days after vaccination. Experts for both agencies will investigate, and officials wrote, “Until that process is complete, we are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution.”
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