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 Vaccination clinics will be held from 4:30 to 6:30
p.m. Thursday, May 20, and from 6 to 8 a.m. Friday, May 21.
Preregistration is required.
The clinics are open to anyone age 12 and
older.
Both clinics will use the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
It’s a two-dose regimen, with the shots spaced about 21 days apart.
Once people receive their second shot, they will be fully immunized
about two weeks later.
Until the Food and Drug Administration’s Emergency Use Authorization
on Monday followed by approval from an advisory committee to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention om Wednesday, the vaccine
was available only to 16 years old and older.
An appointment is required to participate in the vaccination
clinics. Registration opens at noon today (May 13). To make an
appointment, visit ALMH.org, click on the COVID-19 Vaccination
Clinic banner.
For those without internet access, call 217-605-6500. The call will
go to voicemail and someone will call back when an appointment is
available to schedule.
For children receiving the vaccine, a parent or guardian must be
available in person to provide consent and must remain with the
child until post-vaccination monitoring is complete.
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Reminders for participating in the vaccination
clinic:
· Bring a driver’s license or another form of identification.
· Wear appropriate clothing that gives easy access to the upper arm.
· Arrive no more than 5 minutes before scheduled appointment time
and enter through the designated “COVID-19 Vaccination Entrance”
doors at the front of Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.
· You must remain at the clinic for 15 to 30 minutes after the
vaccination for monitoring.
· Support persons may be asked to wait in their vehicles. If needed,
assistance will be provided by vaccination clinic employees.
· Participants will receive a COVID-19 vaccination card.
· Anyone arriving more than 30 minutes after their scheduled
appointment might not be able to receive the vaccine on this date.
Future vaccination clinics will be shared on the social media
channels of Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital and the Logan County
Department of Public Health.
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