“I’ve already asked the question: if we know there’s going to be an expanded age group, can we make a modification?” Mentzer said of District 201’s plans for a vaccine clinic before the vaccine was approved for younger kids.
Mentzer said the district would look at opening up appointments at the two high schools for those younger students if the age group was expanded. If there are still appointments available next week, it would look at opening it up to the high schools’ feeder districts, which include Belle Valley 119, Belleville 118, Grant 110, Harmony-Emge 175, High Mount 116, Millstadt 160, Pontiac-William Holliday 105, Signal Hill 181, Whiteside 115 and Wolf Branch 113.
Vaccinations have slowed to a trickle at the site in Belleville Author: Tracy Hinson (KSDK) Updated: 5:49 PM CDT May 3, 2021
BELLEVILLE, Ill. In February, lines to get into the Belle-Clair Fairgrounds went on for miles. In the first days of May, cars of people seeking a COVID-19 vaccine just trickle in. The demand drop is prompting officials to end operations on May 30. At our peak we were doing just under 3,000 doses a day, St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency Director Herb Simmons told 5 On Your Side. Demand has slowed down, we re doing less than a thousand a day.
The Belle-Clair Fairgrounds is actually set up to do 5,000 doses per day if the need arose, but it never did.
Belleville News-Democrat St. Clair County opened its COVID-19 mass-vaccination clinic on Feb. 1 at Belle-Clair Fairgrounds in Belleville. It will close at the end of May.
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The clock is ticking for people who want to get vaccinated for the coronavirus at St. Clair County’s drive-thru, mass-vaccination clinic at Belle-Clair Fairgrounds in Belleville.
The clinic will close on May 30, according to St. Clair County Board Chairman Mark Kern, who made the announcement Sunday afternoon as part of a live-streamed COVID-19 briefing on the
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Kanisha Ward gives Carlis Weathers, 60, of Belleville her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The East Side Health District has been holding vaccine clinics at the Clyde C. Jordan Senior Citizens Center in East St. Louis as well as other locations.
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In January, as St. Clair County started making plans to administer vaccines to residents, East St. Louis resident Patricia Parker signed her name on the county health department’s list to be notified about an appointment.
It wasn’t long before East Side Health District called her to get her and her husband vaccinated. They received the first dose of the Moderna shot at the clinic in early February.