By TOMMY REZAC
St. Joseph Post
The Tri-County Health Department is hosting a mass COVID-19 vaccination event in Albany on Monday in collaboration with Mosaic Life Care.
The event at Albany High School is by appointment only. The appointments are being offered to people on Tri County's vaccine waiting list, which was paused on Tuesday.
Tri-County Health administrator Teresa McDonald says their waiting list has over 1,400 names on it, and the collaboration with Mosaic is critical in getting a vaccine to those who need it most.
"With us only having three vaccinators in office, the collaboration with Mosaic is essential to us," McDonald told the Post. "Having that large clinic, we're looking to vaccinate about 540 people on that day."
McDonald says those on the waiting list who do not get a vaccine Monday will have more opportunities with smaller clinics coming in the following week.
There'll also be more mass vaccination clinics across Region H, like the one in Savannah on Friday.
Once the 1,400 people on Tri-County's waiting list are vaccinated, McDonald says the list will either be reopened or there'll be a new system in place to allow people to make their own appointments.
"We will be putting out a link for people to register for their own appointments once we have cleared this waiting list," McDonald said.
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