Category: Covid-19 Vaccine

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Holcomb Still Opposed To Monetary Incentives For COVID-19 Vaccinations - Indiana Public Media

TIJUANA (Border Report) Since the state of Baja California began vaccinating those 18 and older with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the rush to get inoculated has generated lines measured in kilometers at some sites, according to state health officials.

At some locations, people had begun to line up on foot or in cars days before the vaccines were scheduled to be given starting Thursday morning.

But one man named, Mario, said he lined up at a place only to be surprised by the lack of people waiting.

I got here yesterday at 6:30 in the afternoon (Wednesday) trying to avoid a lot of people, but when I got here there was nobody, I was the first one, he said. My parents are vaccinated already, my siblings are already vaccinated because they work taking care of seniors and they got the vaccine at work.

Mario considers himself lucky because no one in his family got the virus.

Jobs were lost because restaurants closed, many options for work also closed, a lot of us were affected since we could not earn any pay, he said. We had no money so we had to start charging buying on credit, but that was the worst of it.

Baja Californias Health Secretary placed 16 vaccination sites at various cities throughout the state and opened them at the same time, but in the city of Mexicali, where temperatures are exceeding 110 degrees, hours of operation have shifted to the evening from 6 p.m. till midnight.

Once people have been vaccinated, 14 days must pass to acquire immunity. People are being advised to continue with prevention protocols such as wearing facemasks and maintaining social distancing.

We are saying that once vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, after 14 days people should have generated enough antibodies to start enjoying immunity, said Alonso Prez Rico, Bajas Secretary of Health.

Prez Rico says the target is to vaccinate 135,000 people per day with a goal of inoculating 1.35 million people in a 10-day period.

With the shipment from the United States we should be able to get to 75 percent herd immunity, which is something the Americans are insisting on before we can open the border between Tijuana and the United States, he said.

The southern border, including the stretch between Tijuana and San Diego has been under cross-border restrictions for almost 15 months.

Best case scenario, Im guessing by the middle or end of July we will be tentatively talking about opening the border, but the truth is once the last of the citizens gets one of the 1.3 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines, we still have to wait to 14 days, said Prez Rico.

Visit theBorderReport.com homepagefor the latest exclusive stories and breaking news about issues along the United States-Mexico border.

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COVID-19 vaccination lines stretch for kilometers in Baja; Indications are border remains closed another month - KXAN.com

CHICAGO (CBS) On this Fathers Day, a life-affirming event was held in Chicagos Chatham neighborhood.

It was hosted by the Talbert Memorial Fund, a group dedicated to help Black parents who have lost children.

The organization offered COVID-19 vaccinations on Sunday, as part of its Black Men Heal Initiative to help Black dads better take care of their physical and mental health.

We talked to Jamal Harris, a neighborhood store manager and father of two, who explained why it was important to for him to get his shot.

If I can be leading by example, none of my other employees are vaccinated. So maybe if I start, maybe I can start a trend within my location just a little push, like safety, for everybody to be safe, Harris said.

Everyone gathered for the event at 75th Street and Prairie Avenue. Business owners along 75th Street contributed food, beverages, and other support.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Event For Dads Held In Chatham This Fathers Day, As Part Of Black Men Heal Project - CBS Chicago

With two Super Bowl rings to his name and NFL street cred to the hilt, retired receiver Rod Smith showed up at Broncos headquarters to impart lessons on how a once-proud franchise could get its winning mojo back.

But after Smith was introduced to the team on a recent spring day, something slightly unexpected and totally beautiful happened. One of the feistiest players to ever wear a Denver uniform revealed the pain and anxiety in his heart, then told the Broncos how a shot in the arm can be a powerful symbol of love.

With the same boldness Smith displayed every time he snared a pass in the angry teeth of a defense, the 51-year-old Ring of Famer told current players if they truly cared about team chemistry and the people outside football that matter most to them, the Broncos would put aside any fear or hesitancy about the COVID-19 vaccine, roll up their sleeves and get inoculated long before the upcoming 2021 NFL season began.

I wouldnt call it a sales job. He just spoke from the heart, Broncos coach Vic Fangio told me during a telephone interview. Rod shared with the team that he was terrified of COVID for the last year and basically locked himself in his room, in part because he didnt want to pose any danger to his sick daughter.

Every one of his 849 receptions hauled in for the Broncos were squeezed and secured with passion. Throughout much of 13 seasons in Denver, Smiths eyes often burned with the defiance of a player who joined the league as an undrafted free agent out of Missouri Southern in 1994.

He took nothing for granted and took no prisoners. As a journalist caught more than once on the wrong side of the blow torch when Smith got worked up on a topic, Im hear to testify when Brother Rod preaches, the congregation has little choice but to shout: Amen, brother!

As daily vaccination rates across the country decline, and President Joe Bidens desire of inoculating 70% of the U.S. population against COVID-19 by July 4 now destined to fall short of the goal line, the Broncos have taken their medicine. For the good of the team. And to be good neighbors.

More than 80 players on Denvers large summer roster have received at least one dose of the vaccine, ranking Denver among the NFLs top three teams in the battle to snuff out a pandemic that has killed more than 600,000 Americans.

Yes, there are intelligent folks with strong reasons that make them reluctant to get the COVID vax. Professional football players, who cant make a living in a dangerous game without their health, have long been wary of anyone sticking a needle in them.

When addressing the Broncos on May 24, Smith not only heard the doubts of skeptical Denver players, he shared some of their same fears.

Rod admitted that he was kind of an anti-vaccine guy by nature, but theres no way he wouldnt get one for COVID. In spite of his stubbornness he saw the light and got the vaccine, recalled Fangio, whose own daughter is a nurse who fell ill, but recovered during the early stages of the pandemic.

Shortly before his visit to team headquarters, the Ring of Fame receiver humbly stood in line at a grocery store with regular peeps like you and me, awaiting his date with the needle. Smith told Broncos players and coaches he got the vax with his grown daughter in mind.

Her name is Vanessa. She was brought into the world by Valerie Webb and a young football player at Joplin, Mo., hospital in November 1989. Despite a lifelong battle with sickle cell anemia, she grew up to be a phlebotomy technician and the proud mother of two boys.

In a too-often-told, gut-wrenching story that has touched millions of aching hearts during the pandemic, the dangers of COVID-19 drove a wall between a retired NFL star and his ill daughter. Ive lived the same story as Smith with my mother, and Im willing to wager you or somebody you know has experienced the anxiety of being unable to reach out and touch a loved one in need during the pandemic.

COVID-19 stole time none of us can ever get back.

Smith knows that pain all too well.

Vanessa Denise Webb passed away June 7, after her courageous battle with sickle cell anemia ended at age 31.

You get a COVID vaccine, if not for yourself, to be a strong teammate, a good friend or show a loved one were all in this fight together.

The Broncos have yet to play a game in 2021, but already are out-front leaders in the fight to snuff out this nasty pandemic.

And hopefully, Fangio said, we will win some games. Then all messages carry more weight.

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Kiszla: When encouraging Broncos to get COVID-19 vaccine, Ring of Fame receiver Rod Smith spoke to team from his aching heart - The Denver Post

Iceland has bore a relatively low COVID-19 burden compared to many other countries, with the first case of SARS-CoV-2 being confirmed in late February 2020 and a total of 6,526 people having been diagnosed with the virus as of May 14th, 2021.

Thanks to the manageable number of cases every diagnosed case was contact traced, allowing those in close proximity to enter quarantine with a PCR test upon reaching the end of the isolation period. All of those with positive PCR tests had further samples collected for sequencing of the virus, providing an unprecedented level of detail in data collection.

Three waves of COVID-19 can be traced to their origins in Iceland, with the first being introduced from abroad by several travelers, which brought multiple genetically distinct lineages. This wave was completely eliminated by May 2020 via non-pharmaceutical interventions, though the second and third waves followed shortly after, with the third in particular being larger and characterized mainly by a single genetic clade.

The transmission tree of the third wave has recently been reconstructed in a paper uploaded to the preprint server medRxiv* by Hjorleifsson et al. (June 16th, 2021), allowing a detailed comparison between demographics concerning the infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2. Further, the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccine distribution methodology is probed by computational simulation, finding that the widely accepted age descending vaccination policy may not be optimal.

Study Results. Image Credit: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258741v1.full.pdf

The group found that quarantine protocols significantly slowed the spread of the virus, with those diagnosed outside of quarantine being 89% more infectious than those diagnosed inside quarantine, as asserted by contact tracing and testing. As might be expected this effect intensifies with time, with those testing positive in the first few days of quarantine having had the virus well before entering, and therefore have had a chance to spread it more before isolation.

Iceland has implemented a similar vaccine distribution policy to most other nations, providing them first to the elderly and vulnerable, and then in descending age order. To optimize this strategy the group analyzed three vaccination strategies: descending age order, ascending age order, or random distribution.

Simulations that allowed iterative increases in the vaccinated percentage of the adult population from 0% or 29%, to represent frontline workers receiving the vaccine as a baseline, were run, setting the presumed probability of transmission to 40% or 10%, depending on whether an individual had received one or two doses of the vaccine, respectively. Vaccinated individuals still have a chance of catching the virus, but are significantly less likely to transmit it as they bear a lower viral load, though this was not considered in the simulation.

According to the simulations, and with all non-pharmaceutical interventions being the same, to reduce the size of the third wave outbreak to only 100 persons, 4% of the actual outbreak, 79% of all adults would need to have received a single dose of the vaccine when given in descending age order.

Vaccinating in order of ascending age, instead, would require only 64% of the adult population to have received one dose, while random distribution would require 72%. Similarly, having received two doses of the vaccine less than 60% of the adult population would need to be vaccinated in a random or ascending order strategy, being closer to 70% when given in descending order.

Therefore, after having distributed the vaccines to the elderly and vulnerable, distribution in ascending age order or even randomly would have been more beneficial to reducing transmission than age descending order. The group state that the third wave was largely spread by the young, as determined by the extensive and detailed contact tracing in Iceland, and therefore lowering transmission amongst them would have impeded the spread more strongly.

medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information.

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Plus, antibodies are not the only defense the body deploys to create immunity: We also make T cells, memory B cells, and others. The vaccine clinical trials didnt attempt to measure the cell counts required to create an effective defense against the virus. They reported only clinical endpoints, such as whether someone became seriously ill or died from the disease. So focusing on antibodies alone may miss important parts of the immune response.

I try not to use words like you didnt respond to the vaccine when someone isnt making antibodies, says Haidar, who is principal investigator on a larger study that is recruiting people with a range of immune deficits, including HIV, in order to study Covid vaccine response. I worry that it might drive vaccine hesitancy if the messaging is that the vaccine isn't working for you. I think we have to be a little more nuanced to account for the complexities that other elements of the immune system could have been revved up by the vaccines.

Even in the few studies done so far, its clear that immune response to the vaccines varies, depending on the age of the patient, the type of immune deficit they are experiencing, the type of transplant they received, the specific drugs they take, the length of time since transplant or last dose, and a host of other factors. The likelihood of abundant antibody production appears higher, for instance, in patients who take immune-suppressing medications to treat chronic inflammatory diseases than it does in transplant and cancer patients. Studies done by Segev and team show better rates of antibody production in those patients after one and two doses. But a separate preprint, done by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and UC San Francisco, shows a wide range of responses depending on which drug regimen a patient is taking.

That may provide a clue for managing patients vulnerability, so that they can get closer to the kind of immune protection that otherwise healthy people receive from Covid vaccines. One thing we are telling patients who are in suppression, who haven't gotten vaccinated yet, is to consider holding their medicine, says Alfred H. J. Kim, that studys senior author and an assistant professor of rheumatology and immunology at Washington University. Obviously, if you hold medicines, you risk flares. And if you're going to flare, this could make your vaccine side effects worse, or it could make the vaccine itself less effective. Its a really tricky situation.

And, legally, doctors currently cant advise patients to seek extra doses of the Covid vaccine. The FDA has authorized only one or two doses for all the vaccines it has let enter the US market. For Segevs teams study, the doctors didnt prescribe third dosesthe patients found third doses on their own, in ways the study did not specify. The Hopkins team tracked the results.

Still, theres some evidence in medical literature to support the utility of additional doses. For instance, the French government has recommended a third dose for anyone who is immunocompromised. And in the US, its been understood for years that a second dose of seasonal flu vaccine and larger doses of hepatitis B vaccine are required to create immunity in them.

But it will be necessary to gather more data to be sure. The Hopkins team is contemplating a larger trial in which immunosuppressed patients seeking third doses would be enrolled and tracked in a formal way. And despite the allure of higher protection, theyre not urging immune-damaged patients to start freelancing their own third shots. There are risks to taking third doses, Segev says. There is a risk the third dose will activate your immune system and cause either an overt rejection or some sort of subclinical thing, where you start to develop a little more antibodies against your transplanted organ. It's important that people who do go out and get third doses are either part of research protocols or are doing this in collaboration with their doctors who have evaluated the risks and benefits.

If trials like this can yield dataanother one, recently announced, is being conducted by the National Institutes of Healththey could do more than let the immunocompromised get back to everyday life. They could also illuminate aspects of the immune system and its interaction with vaccines that are still not very well understood. And that will be of benefit not just during this pandemic but for whatever we need to protect ourselves against next.

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GENEVA - African health officials are urgently appealing for vaccines to combat a third wave of COVID-19 surging across the continent.

The World Health Organization reports the number of African COVID-19 cases has exceeded 5 million and the disease has killed 136,000 people.

WHO regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti says cases have been increasing over the past four weeks. She says new cases in the past week have risen by nearly 30% across the continent and deaths have increased by 15%.

She says five countriesSouth Africa, Tunisia, Zambia, Uganda, and Namibiaaccount for 76% of new coronavirus infections in Africa.

Africa is in the midst of a full-blown third wave. The sobering trajectory of surging cases should rouse everyone to urgent action, said Moeti. "Weve seen in India and elsewhere how quickly COVID-19 can rebound and overwhelm health systems. Public health measures must be scaled up fast to find, test, isolate and care for patients and to quickly trace and isolate their contacts.

Moeti says it is urgent that Africa quickly receive more vaccines as the circulation of more contagious variants across the continent is accelerating. She says the Delta variant, the most virulent strain, has been reported in 14 African countries, and the Beta and Alpha variants have been found in more than 25 countries.

She says 12 million people in Africa now are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. She welcomes the receipt of vaccine doses from the WHO COVAX sharing facility and from government donations that has made this possible.

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However, she says those 12 million people represent less than 1% of Africas 1.3 billion population.

"At the continental level, we are seeing a rise in cases similar to the first wave peak in July 2020 and about 50% of the second wave peak in January 2021. Africa needs millions more doses here and now to curb the third wave, and best practice approaches will be key to make the most of the available vaccines, said Moeti.

WHO says Africa needs 200 million vaccine doses by the end of September to inoculate 10% of the population against the coronavirus. The European Union has pledged to donate 100 million doses to low-income countries and the United States has said it would provide 80 million doses to poorer countries.

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Eight local McDonalds franchises are teaming up with San Diego County to offer free COVID-19 vaccinations at special one-day events starting Monday, officials announced Saturday.

The eight restaurants are in Chula Vista, El Cajon, Escondido, National City, Oceanside, Ramona, San Diego and Vista.

Everyone who receives a free shot will also get a coupon for one free McDonalds menu item. In addition, everyone who receives a vaccination at the McDonalds events will be automatically entered in a drawing to win a free pair of San Diego Padres tickets.

The one-day, pop-up clinics are open to the public, McDonalds employees and their family members. No appointments are necessary and walk-ups are welcome. Some of the sites are offering pre-registration.

The times, dates, locations and vaccines available at the San Diego County McDonalds pop-up vaccination clinics are:

Ramona McDonalds, 1550 Main St., Monday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Johnson & Johnson/Janssen and Pfizer for children 12 and up and second doses.

County officials gave their last regularly scheduled COVID-19 update Tuesday, with any future briefings being provided as needed. Daily news releases with COVID-19 data will be replaced by a weekly news update on Wednesdays.

Last Wednesdays data including 48 new cases increased the cumulative number of infections to 281,422. No new deaths were reported and the death toll remains at 3,770.

Hospitalizations related to the pandemic dropped by one to 74 in Wednesdays data. The number of patients in intensive care units remained 21. There are 59, staffed, available ICU beds in the county.

As of Wednesday, a total of 2,123,647 people in the county had received at least one dose of vaccine.

Fully vaccinated residents numbered 1,776,647 84.5% of a county-set goal of vaccinating 2,101,936 people 12 and older. That mark, based on 75% of Aprils population estimate for eligible age groups, is intended to reach community herd immunity.

More than 4.24 million doses have been received by the county, with more than 3.91 million administered.

A full list of available vaccination sites can be found at http://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/community_epidemiology/dc/ 2019-nCoV/vaccines.html.

Of 8,721 tests reported by the county on Wednesday, 0.6% returned positive. The 14-day rolling average percentage of positive cases is 0.8%.

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WASHINGTONPresident Joe Bidenannounced Friday the U.S. has administered 300 million COVID-19 shots in 150 days, a milestone moment in the campaign to overcome the coronavirus pandemic.

What we're seeing is a truly American accomplishment, 65%of American adults have gotten at least one shot, including 87% of our seniors. Just five months ago we were at only 5% of adult Americans,"Biden said during remarks on the COVID-19 pandemic at the White House.

As of Friday morning, nearly 315million shots have been administered, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Biden also touted closing the racial gap in vaccinations.

President Joe Biden speaks about reaching 300 million COVID-19 vaccination shots, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, June 18, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ORG XMIT: DCEV311(Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)

"More than 58% of shots administered by federally run vaccination sites have gone to people of color. Across the nation people of color have accounted for more than half of all vaccinations in the last month," Biden said.

"The more we close the racial gap in vaccination rates, the more lives we'll save," the president added.

Earlier this month, Biden announced a monthlong effort to persuade more Americans to receive the vaccine. The announcement included a "Shots at the Shop," initiative that brought together 1,000 Black-owned barbershops and beauty salons to serve as vaccination locations.

During his remarks, Biden warned the nation about the need to get vaccinated and the dangers of a COVID-19 Delta variant, which devastatedIndia last month.

The best way to protect yourself against these variants is to get fully vaccinated," Biden said.

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"The truth is that deaths and hospitalizations are drastically down in places where people are getting vaccinated. But unfortunately, cases and hospitalizations are not going down in many places, in the lower vaccination rate states. Theyre actually going up in some places," Biden continued.

It has been an uphill battle for the nation to meet Bidens goal to have 70% of U.S. adultsreceiveat least one COVID-19 shot by July 4. Only65% of adults age 18 and above have received one dose of the vaccine, according to the CDC.

On Tuesday the U.S. surpassed600,000 COVID-19 deathsand nowhas more than 33.5 million confirmed coronavirus cases accordingtoJohns Hopkins Universitydata.

"People getting seriously ill, being hospitalized due to COVID-19, are those who have not been fully vaccinated, the president said.

Biden also offered words of hope for a beleaguered nation.

Were heading into, God willing, a summer of joy, a summer of freedom. On July 4, were going to celebrate our independence from the virus as we celebrate the independence of our nation," Biden said. "Lets get this done, all of us together.

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The Hamilton County Health Department is no longer making appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine. Individuals may drive up to the Tennessee Riverpark vaccination site during operating hours to receive their first or second dose of the vaccine.

We want to make this process as easy as possible so that we can eliminate barriers to getting vaccinated, says Health Department Administrator Becky Barnes, We now have the ability to accommodate anyone who shows up at the vaccination site, so there is no longer a need for the appointment system.

June 30th is the last day that the Health Department will be accepting appointments. The Tennessee Riverpark vaccination site is open Monday Friday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Those that have lost their COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card may request a record of immunization through the Tennessee Department of Health. To submit a request, call 615-741-7247.

For additional assistance, call the COVID-19 Hotline at 423-209-8383.

Currently, 39.1 percent of the Hamilton County population is fully vaccinated, and 43.7 percent of the population is at least partially vaccinated.

While the Hamilton County fully vaccinated rate continues to increase, we are falling behind other metropolitan areas in Tennessee and the United States, says Ms. Barnes. Our rates need to be much higher to protect our community and avoid a potential resurgence. There is a lot of capacity to immunize in the community. We want to encourage everyone not yet vaccinated to take advantage of this opportunity available to them.

The vaccine data dashboard is updated every weekday and is available here.Free Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination events will be offered at multiple locations this week. No appointment is necessary, and anyone 12 years of age and older is eligible. Visit vaccine.hamiltontn.gov and click on Vaccine Calendar of Events to see the most up-to-date COVID-19 vaccine calendar. To accelerate the vaccination process, print and complete the vaccine encounter form available on the website.

Friday, June 18: Tennessee Riverpark, 4301 Amnicola Hwy, Chattanooga, Tn. 37402, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sequoyah Health Center, 9527 W Ridge Trail Rd, Soddy-Daisy, Tn.37379, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday, June 19: Tennessee Riverpark, 4301 Amnicola Hwy, Chattanooga, Tn.37402, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Westside Missionary Baptist Church, 4001 Hughes Ave, Chattanooga, Tn.37410, noon-3 p.m.

Sunday, June 20: No events

Monday, June 21: Tennessee Riverpark, 4301 Amnicola Hwy, Chattanooga, Tn.37402, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sequoyah Health Center, 9527 W Ridge Trail Rd, Soddy-Daisy, Tn.37379, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Tuesday, June 22: Tennessee Riverpark, 4301 Amnicola Hwy, Chattanooga, Tn.37402, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sequoyah Health Center, 9527 W Ridge Trail Rd, Soddy-Daisy, Tn.37379, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Wednesday, June 23: Tennessee Riverpark, 4301 Amnicola Hwy, Chattanooga, Tn.37402, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sequoyah Health Center, 9527 W Ridge Trail Rd, Soddy-Daisy, Tn.37379, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Birchwood Clinic, 5625 TN-60, Birchwood, Tn.37308, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 24: Tennessee Riverpark, 4301 Amnicola Hwy, Chattanooga, Tn.37402, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sequoyah Health Center, 9527 W Ridge Trail Rd, Soddy-Daisy, Tn.37379, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Friday, June 25: Tennessee Riverpark, 4301 Amnicola Hwy, Chattanooga, Tn.37402, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sequoyah Health Center, 9527 W Ridge Trail Rd, Soddy-Daisy, Tn.37379, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Super Carniceria Loa, 400a Chickamauga Rd, Chattanooga, Tn.37421, 3 p.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday, June 26: Tennessee Riverpark, 4301 Amnicola Hwy, Chattanooga, Tn.37402, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Riverfront Nights, 201 Riverfront Pkwy, Chattanooga, Tn.37402, 7-8:30 p.m.

The COVID-19 Hotline is available to assist with COVID-19 vaccine inquiries Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at 423-209-8383.

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