BY MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
The Doniphan County Health Department will be hosting a vaccine clinic on Friday on the Highland Community College campus.
Clinic Supervisor Sheryl Pierce says college reached out to the health department.
"The dean of the college reached out to us a few days ago and said they had some football players maybe to bring in on Friday for us to do COVID vaccine," Pierce tells St. Joseph Post. "And I said, how about we come up to the college and see if we can catch a few more college kids."
Pierce adds that the clinic is also open and available to the public and not just students of Highland.
Pierce says the whole goal for these vaccine clinics is to make the vaccine as accessible to the public as can be.
"Anytime we go out to a business or to a public location like the college, we typically do invite the entire public, when we went enrollments at the schools, the schools were ok with us inviting anybody in the public," Pierce says. "We just want to be available and accessible so that no-one really has an excuse to not get the vaccine."
An additional shot was made available last week by the Health Department for immuno-compromised individuals, and clinic supervisor Sheryl Pierce says that shot will be available on Friday.
"If you're immuno-compromised and meet the criteria, it will be available, it's the same exact vaccine, it's still the same Pfizer, the same Moderna vaccine." Pierce elaborates.
The clinic will be held at 1:30 pm on Friday on the lower level of the Stadium Center. Doses of the Pfizer, Moderna and single shot Johnson and Johnson will be available.