The department is urging folks to keep existing second dose appointments made elsewhere.
To schedule an appointment with the health department, go to armorvax.com or download the ArmorVax app on iPhone or Android devices. You also can schedule by phone at 330-451-1681.
Vaccines are available for those 16 and older. Minors will need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian, who will have to sign a release form.
The department is offering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. If you ve received a Moderna vaccine, you can use the vaccine locator tool at Coronavirus.StarkCountyOhio.gov to find open appointments, or see the state s website at gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.gov.
The need is still there, she said.
Stark County is echoing a trend seen nationwide.
Meanwhile, Louisiana has stopped asking the federal government for its full allotment of COVID-19 vaccine. About three-quarters of Kansas counties have turned down new shipments of the vaccine at least once over the past month. And in Mississippi, officials asked the federal government to ship vials in smaller packages so they don’t go to waste.
“It is kind of stalling. Some people just don’t want it,” said Stacey Hileman, a nurse with the health department in rural Kansas’ Decatur County, where less than a third of the county’s 2,900 residents have received at least one vaccine dose.
What happens when a patient contracts COVID-19 in-between their two vaccine shots?
More and more Northeast Ohioans are getting vaccinated to protect themselves from COVID-19. Since it requires two doses weeks apart it raised a question for one listener, who put it to our OH Really? team.
Katherine from North Canton received her first vaccine dose several weeks ago. She asks, “if you contract the COVID virus in between doses, what’s the protocol? I had traveled and could have potentially contracted the virus or a variant of the virus.”
She began showing symptoms last week after visiting family and is concerned that a second dose could prove troublesome. I asked Dr. Maureen Ahmann for her advice. She’s the medical director for Stark County Health Department. She says Katherine should reschedule her second shot until after the 10-day isolation period is over.
Clinics are set for:
May 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Fairless Elementary School gymnasium, 12000 Navarre Road SW, Sugarcreek Township.
May 11 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the Northwest High School field house, 8580 Erie Ave. N.W., Canal Fulton.
May 12 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the East Canton High School gymnasium, 310 Browning Court, East Canton.
May 13 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the Marlington Middle School gymnasium, 10325 Moulin Ave., Lexington Township.
Registration is open through April 25. To schedule an appointment, see the ArmorVax website at armorvax.com or download the mobile app on your Apple or Android device.
Those who can t access the app, or who are having difficulty using it, can call 330-451-1681 to schedule an appointment.
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