By News Director Jared Atha
The expanded phase 2 portion of Oklahoma’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan is already taking place in western Oklahoma.
A big portion of the plan includes educators.
Tuesday, Elk City School staff members started to receive their first round of shots with other schools quickly scheduling clinics for their employees.
Elk City, City Manager Tom Ivester stated recently that the City of Elk City and the Beckham County Health Department is getting the attention of state officials on how their weekly point of distribution clinics are being operated.
Ivester says with the latest step in the state’s roll out plan, Oklahoma’s allocation of the vaccine has increased by 45%.
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By News Director Jared Atha
Officials announced Tuesday that Walmart and Sam’s Club pharmacies in 43 Oklahoma locations will start administering COVID-19 vaccinations starting Friday.
Among the local Walmarts participating with the roll out include stores in Elk City, Hobart, Altus, and Weatherford.
A news release states that the vaccines are available to people who meet the current phase of vaccine eligibility in Oklahoma. Officials also said the vaccines will be provided through the U.S. Federal Retail Pharmacy Program.
Eligible people looking to get the vaccine can schedule an appointment through Walmart’s and Sam’s Club’s websites once they are available.
By News Director Jared Atha
The Beckham County Health Department along with the City of Elk City appears to be setting the standard on how to distribute the Covid-19 vaccine.
According to Elk City City Manager Tom Ivester, the health department has utilized the Elk City Civic Center on more than one occasion to be a distribution point of the vaccine, and he says it appears this will be a weekly occurrence.
Another weekly distribution location in western Oklahoma is at the Pioneer Cellular Event Center on the Weatherford campus of Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Those vaccination events are conducted every Friday as well.
By News Director Jared Atha
After announcing that the Pioneer Cellular Event Center at Southwestern Oklahoma State in Weatherford would be a Covid-19 vaccination distribution site every Friday, the school has now announced that the number of people treated will be going up.
In a press release, SWOSU College of Pharmacy Rural Health Center Coordinator Randy Curry said 300 vaccinations were given at the initial clinic held January 8. That number will increase starting this Friday (January 15) when the site could potentially give up to 940 vaccinations.
Curry said the Pioneer Cellular Event Center site has been approved and set up as a point of distribution. The vaccinations being given now at SWOSU are for people over 65 years of age.