Photo by Alan Olson -- Young people and adults turned out this past week to Bridge Street Middle School to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Other clinics were held at The Linsly School, Ritchie Elementary and Warwood School.
WHEELING – Hundreds turned out to a series of vaccination clinics held at local schools, the vast majority of whom were the recently-qualified 12-years-and-older crowd coming to get inoculated against COVID-19.
The four clinics were held at Warwood School, The Linsly School, Ritchie Elementary, and Bridge Street Middle School this week, serving as a series of smaller, more localized hubs to distribute the vaccine to people who were unable, or unwilling, to make the trip to The Highlands’ permanent vaccine center.
Wheeling-Ohio County Health Administrator Howard Gamble said the clinics drew in more than 200 people, with more than 100 alone coming to Tuesday’s clinic at The Linsly School. The other three days, Gamble said, brought in around 50 people each. Of those, Gamble said, between two and 10 people per day were outside the youngest demographic.
“Each clinic, we may have had anywhere from two or three, up to 10, people who were not the youth,” Gamble said. “The one that was the least was down at Ritchie, we didn’t have as many adults take part, but we did have them. … The majority of the folks that came in were either from the schools, where we were trying to (serve) that location, but they were mostly 12 and up, and a small handful at each that were adults, which was great, to get them caught up.”
The clinics will return the week of June 7 to distribute second doses. A number of the older crowd who came to the clinics were those who had missed their second dose and were looking to complete their vaccination.
Should the time come that the age to get vaccinated is again lowered, Gamble said, they would likely bring the smaller clinics back to inoculate that younger crowd.
Looking ahead to coming weeks, the health department will be holding vaccination clinics at its Wheeling office, reducing the clinic days at The Highlands from three to two beginning the week of May 31. Starting that week — minus Memorial Day — clinics will be held at the health department office on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, while The Highlands clinic will operate Tuesday and Thursday.
Gamble said that the decision to pull clinics back to the office comes as more people have made a decision about vaccination, either having received one or actively declining. If eligibility opens up further for new clients, the school clinics could return.
“Fewer and fewer people are wanting to get it, and those that are eligible have either made the decision to get it, or made the decision not to,” Gamble said. “At some point, the age will go down lower. At that point, our partners agreed, if we need to, we’ll go back to the schools and do it again.”
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