Free COVID-19 testing site opens Tuesday in Vancouver
The Tower Mall test site will be available to everyone, regardless of income level, health insurance coverage or immigration status. Author: KGW Staff Updated: 5:18 PM PST January 11, 2021
VANCOUVER, Wash. A COVID-19 testing site in Vancouver will offer free tests to members of the public starting Tuesday.
The Tower Mall test site will be available to everyone, regardless of income level, health insurance coverage or immigration status, according to Clark County Public Health.
The site, located at 5403 E Mill Plain Blvd., will include both drive-thru and walk-up testing. Operating hours are Tuesday – Saturday from 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Top 10 stories of 2020: Pandemic, shootings, wildfires hit Clark County by The Columbian
The SARS-COV-2 virus is incredibly small, but the reverberations of its impact on humanity dominated the events of 2020 and will linger for years.
There was never any question that the novel coronavirus pandemic is The Columbian’s and the world’s top story of 2020.
Clark County’s first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, was reported on March 7. Since then, it has sickened more than 12,000 people and taken the lives of more than 135 people.
It has shuttered businesses, reinvented learning and upended nearly every aspect of Clark County life.
This is the day that we ve been looking forward to for months now. This is an active way to go after the COVID pandemic and try to take something beyond just mitigation, said Floyd County Health Officer Dr. Tom Harris after the first five people were vaccinated for COVID-19 in Floyd County.Â
NEW ALBANY â Floyd County health officials on Thursday took what they say is a monumental step toward beating COVID-19 with the first five vaccinations, a trial run a day ahead of the full rollout Friday.
Floyd County Health Officer and ER physician Dr. Tom Harris was the first to be immunized at the drive-through vaccination clinic set up outside Baptist Health Floyd in New Albany. The hospital is in charge of immunizations for A1 tier candidates â mostly frontline healthcare workers â in Floyd, Harrison and Washington counties.
JEFFERSONVILLE â A little more than nine months after the first COVID-19 cases were identified in Indiana, vaccinations have begun at two hospitals.
Just after noon Monday, Parkview Health in Fort Wayne became the first hospital in Indiana to begin administration of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine to frontline healthcare workers.
Clark Memorial Health in Jeffersonville followed, with its first immunizations taking place shortly after lunch Monday.
The vaccine was OKâd late last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Emergency Use Authorization.
Patients in the first tier for vaccinations were able to start signing up Saturday for an appointment, and Mondayâs first 20 participants included Clark Memorial Chief Medical Officer Dr. Klaus Boel and Clark County Health Officer Dr. Eric Yazel.