BRHD and UVA Health System launch new COVID-19 vaccination site
BRHD and UVA Health launch new COVID-19 vaccination site By Riley Wyant | January 29, 2021 at 7:29 PM EST - Updated January 29 at 7:31 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - University of Virginia Health System and the Blue Ridge Health District are launching a new COVID-19 vaccination site in Charlottesville. They are hoping this will pick up the pace of vaccine distribution.
UVA Health will give the vaccines at Seminole Square in a building next to Marshalls starting on Sunday. The Blue Ridge Health District is overseeing the distribution as a whole.
“It’s a larger space so we’ll have the capability of providing more vaccinations, as long as we have the supply,” UVA Medical Center CEO Wendy Horton said. “That will be an efficient vaccination location.”
When vaccinations first started, the team was operating out of an eight-seat clinic with eight vaccinators working — a size that allowed roughly 200 vaccinations a day.
BRHD and UVa Health partner on another remote COVID vaccine site Photo: WINA
CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – The Blue Ridge Health District is partnering with UVa Health having opened another remote COVID vaccination tent along the 29 corridor. UVa Health’s Director of Hospital Epidemiology, Dr. Costi Sifri, says this second vaccination location is at Seminole Square Shopping Center between the Marshalls and Ferguson stores. He says they’re there at the direction of the BRHD… and community members helped choose this location because it’s on the bus line and easily accessible. In fact, JAUNT and CAT are offering no-cost transportation to take individuals to and from Seminole Square vaccination appointments.
On Wednesday, the Virginia Department of Health released a new dashboard to track how many doses of vaccine each of Virginia’s 35 health districts have received.