Tuesday, February 2nd 2021, 4:10 am
By: News 9
Cleveland Co. -
the Cleveland County Health Department is reminding anyone who took their first dose of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine the week of January 4 to get their second dose this week.
People should schedule an appointment at the same place they got their first shot.
As COVID-19 vaccination clinics continue to be held across Cleveland County, a long list of residents and a short supply of doses have prompted a change in the process.
Cleveland County health officials announced Friday that appointments will now be made by phone rather than through the mail.
Previously, those eligible for vaccination received letters in the mail telling them when and where to go for their first doses. Moving forward, Cleveland County residents will be asked to call in to make appointments.
Here are five things to know as we head into February:
1. Residents eligible to receive the vaccine are those 65 and older.
The Shelby Star
More people are seeking guidance to navigate the ins and outs of the pandemic from the county’s COVID-19 hotline.
Calls into Cleveland County’s COVID-19 hotline have almost tripled in the last month, according to Deputy Director of the Health Department DeShay Oliver.
“In December, we averaged approximately 130 calls per day to our COVID Helpline. In January, we have averaged approximately 380 calls per day with some days exceeding 500 calls,” Oliver wrote in an email to
The Star.
The increased call volume has brought people from multiple departments in the county to answer questions about anything from the data on COVID-19 to registering for the vaccine. On any given day, people from the Health Department, the County Manager’s Office, EMS, the LeGrand Center and the Cooperative Extension Office man the phone lines.
The City of Norman, in partnership with Classen Urgent Care and the Cleveland County Health Department, put on a COVID-19 vaccine clinic that vaccinated over 100 individuals Wednesday.