St. Cloud to be location of Minnesota s 6th large-scale vaccination site
The 5th recently opened in St. Paul.
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Gov. Tim Walz has announced that Minnesota s 6th large-scale community vaccination site will be located in St. Cloud.
The governor says the new permanent site is launching this week at the River s Edge Convention Center, which had previously served as a pop-up vaccination site that administered 4,800 doses between Jan. 21 and Feb. 22.
The other permanent vaccination sites in Minnesota can be found at the Minneapolis Convention Center, Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, the Mall of America in Bloomington, the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, and the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester.
St. Cloud Opens Permanent Community COVID Vaccination Site
ST. CLOUD Called a game changer a new COVID-19 community vaccination site has opened in St. Cloud.
The River s Edge Convention Center will now be the permanent site for large-scale vaccinations within central Minnesota.
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Dr. Myles Spar is the National Medical Director for Vault Health who is administering the vaccines. He says their goal is to vaccination 1,000 people per week in downtown St. Cloud.
We try and really focus on access to the vaccine and making it easy for people. So when the state tells us a group is eligible, we re very efficient in making sure those people know that, how to register and they get in and get out.
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(KNSI) – Governor Tim Walz’s trip to the new COVID-19 vaccination site at the River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud Wednesday morning was abruptly canceled 15 minutes before he was scheduled to arrive, without any explanation.
A press release from Governor Walz’s office says the trip was canceled after a member of his staff tested positive for COVID-19.
The governor’s spokesperson, Teddy Tschann, released a statement Wednesday afternoon saying, “A member of Governor Walz’s staff tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday morning after being tested on Tuesday. While Governor Walz, Lieutenant Governor Flanagan, and Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm were not within six feet of the staff member for more than 15 minutes, they were in the same room as the staff member for the duration of a press conference on Monday.”
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(KNSI) – The St. Cloud area reports 106 new cases and one death from COVID-19 Wednesday. The newly reported death was a Wright County resident who was in their 70s.
Benton County sees 12 new cases, Morrison County 10, Sherburne County 36, Stearns County 17 and Wright 31.
Across Minnesota, there are 1,046 new COVID-19 cases and seven deaths.
The state processed 21,047 COVID tests on Tuesday, and 5 percent of those tests came back positive.
As for vaccinations, 85,775 people in the five-county area have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The area as a whole is lagging behind the state’s vaccination rate by population. Across the state, 23.1 percent of Minnesotans 1,284,612 people are vaccinated. Right now, 18.2 percent of residents in the five-county area are vaccinated, with Stearns leading the way with the most people vaccinated both in raw numbers and compared to the county’s total population.
ST. CLOUD The River s Edge Convention Center once again opened as a state-run COVID-19 vaccination clinic Wednesday, and the site s operators hope to remain open for weekly appointments as long as we re needed. We re here basically until Minnesota says we don t need to be here anymore, said Vault Health National Medical Director Myles Spar. Vault Health has been running testing sites during the COVID-19 pandemic. The site in River s Edge is the vendor s fifth it has opened in partnership with the state.
Gov. Tim Walz was expected to visit the site Wednesday, however his appearance was postponed after an exposure to a positive COVID-19 case, according to a release from the governor s office.