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4-day Lane County COVID-19 clinic aims to vaccinate 7,400 by Tuesday By Tuesday, 7,400 more residents will have had their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. People are just really excited that the vaccine is here, Karen Gaffney, director of Lane County Health and Human Services, said Saturday. She noted that despite the cold morning weather, it s a great place to work this weekend. Twenty-five members of the Oregon National Guard were sent to Lane County to join the four-day, invitation-only drive-thru clinic in Eugene. It s some momentum In a year full of surprises and disasters, members of the Guard have been deployed throughout the state to help distribute personal protective equipment, assist with large COVID-19 testing events and fight wildfires. ....
Lane County Public Health administers on-hand vaccinations at two-day clinic Lane County gave out the COVID-19 vaccines it still had on hand in a two-day, invitation-only drive-thru clinic that began Saturday in Eugene. The county expected to inoculate 1,800 people Saturday and Sunday 800 people with the Moderna vaccine Saturday and 1,000 people with the Pfizer vaccine Sunday, according to Lane County Senior Public Health Officer Dr. Patrick Luedtke. Luedtke said Saturday he expected the county to expend all the vaccine it had on hand during the two days. He asked the clinic s location remain undisclosed for safety reasons. We would all love to have more vaccine. And it s not just Lane County, I think the whole country wants more vaccine, Luedtke said. After tomorrow s event, we will have nothing left. We will learn Monday what we ll be resupplied with for the next week. ....
Salem Health hopes to vaccinate 250 people per hour with its clinic, in collaboration with Marion County. Author: Galen Ettlin Updated: 7:50 PM PST January 7, 2021 SALEM, Ore Several Oregon hospitals are organizing vaccine clinics for priority groups to help improve the state s slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations. So far, Oregon has vaccinated about 65,000 people, with about 1,000 people having received both doses. To help increase the numbers, Salem Health and Marion County worked together to organize a pop-up vaccine clinic at the Oregon State Fairgrounds and Convention Center. Raeann McDonald, executive director of Willamette Lutheran Retirement Community in Keizer, received the vaccine there Thursday. ....