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PENDLETON — Vaccine efforts in Umatilla County are on standby after a shipment of doses was canceled earlier this week due to inclement weather. The delays forced health officials to
Umatilla County Public Health has released a schedule for COVID-19 vaccinations that runs through the end of April.
The department also announced that vaccines planned for Friday, Feb. 19, were not available due to weather. That clinic is postponed to Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 2260 S.E. Court Ave. in Pendleton. People who made a vaccine appointment for the Feb. 19 clinic should show up at the same time Feb. 24 instead.
The county released the following clinic schedule for vaccines:
Feb. 26, Hermiston drive-thru, second doses only
March 4 Pendleton drive-thru, first and second doses
March 5 Pendleton drive-thru, first and second doses
March 10 Pendleton by appointment, second doses only
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.
Persons 75 and older become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination in Oregon on Monday, Feb. 15. Due to limited vaccine availability, not everyone who wishes to become vaccinated will be