The Allen County Public Health vaccine clinic is still going strong and will soon be offering more services to the public.
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The Ohio State University is now requiring all faculty, staff, and students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This comes after the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine on August 23.
The HealthWise mobile vaccine unit for ONU was just one of many that had to change from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after the CDC and FDA put a pause on its use earlier this month.
The university will be serving six counties over the next 60 days, using the clinic as a vaccine site. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be offered and the clinic is expecting to receive around 2,200 doses per week. Having a mobile clinic will help to offer the vaccine to people that may not be able to travel long distances to the nearest vaccination site.
Putnam County continues to have a high vaccination rate among their population. According to the Ohio Department of Health, Putnam County is in the top ten counties in the state when it comes to residents who have been vaccinated.
Sen. Rob Portman was one of the first people in Ohio to receive Johnson & Johnson's new COVID-19 vaccine. The senator was part of a clinical trial to determine the vaccine's effectiveness.
Allen County Public Health says doses of the vaccine were delayed last week. The weather was to blame for not only shipments of the vaccine getting delayed for our area.
The vaccines were given out at the high school by Allen County Public Health. The school district superintendent, Joel Mengerink, says that around 170 staff members were vaccinated, and that while there were a few hesitations at first, there's been a lot of excitement among the staff to get the vaccine.
Allen County Public Health was at Marimor School to administer doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. This round of vaccines were available for people with developmental disabilities that live in congregate housing, as well as the staff that work in those homes.
Management says that about 50 percent of their staff and half of their residents at Liberty Retirement Community of Lima opted in to receive the vaccine this first go-around, including director of operations R. Michael Johnson. He believes that there may be more people interested in getting vaccinated in the coming weeks.