Good Shepherd Health Care System helped vaccinate Umatilla Countyâs first round of senior citizens on Friday, Feb. 12, after Oregonians age 80 and up became eligible earlier that week.
Caitlin Cozad, communications director for Good Shepherd, said preliminary numbers for the day were 226 first doses and 340 second doses given at the hospital that day. Those numbers were added to other vaccination clinics in the county, including vaccinations given by appointment at Mirasol Family Health Center in Hermiston and opportunities in Pendleton and Milton-Freewater.
While people waiting in line for a chance to receive a first dose of the vaccine did not need an appointment, there were a few no-shows for second-dose appointments scheduled at Good Shepherd on Friday, which Cozad said may have been due to the snowy roads.