Dodson schools sees COVID outbreak as vaccine rollout is underway
Vaccination clinics being held, more scheduled
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COVID-19 vaccine slated for veterans on the Hi-Line is unloaded from shipment early Thursday morning at the Hill County/Havre Airport. A vaccination clinic was slated for veterans today at Merril Lundman Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Havre Holiday Village Mall and another clinic for people ages 70 and older was set up in the former Famous Footwear location in the mall.
In the midst of COVID-19 vaccine being distributed for Phase 1B of the state rollout and local reservations also moving forward with vaccinations, a local school has had to shut down due to an outbreak of the disease.
Successful COVID vaccination events held in Havre
Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson
A veteran receives a COVID-19 vaccination in in Holiday Village Mall. Montana Veterans Affairs was giving the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine to Hi-Line veterans Thursday.
Editor’s note: This version includes comments by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.
The Holiday Village Mall played host to two successful local COVID-19 vaccination clinics, one in the Former Herberger s location run by the the Merril Lundman Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, and the other in the former Famous Footwear location, run by the Hill County Health Department, Northern Montana Hospital and Bullhook Community Health Center.
Merril Lundman VA Clinic s new location sees low-key opening
Local veterans encouraged to get the COVID-19 vaccine
Last updated 1/21/2021 at 12:15pm
The new location of the Merril Lundman Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic officially opened Wednesday and was paid a visit by Montana VA Medical Center Director Dr. Judy Hayman, who said she was excited for the opening of the new facility. Due to the ongoing pandemic the opening was not as climactic as it may otherwise have been, but Hayman said the VA is happy regardless to have the facility up and running. The new location is three times the size of its previous location on 13th street, which was barely larger than the new location’s waiting area, Hayman said.
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Bert Pavlicko of Struthers, who served in the Navy from 1950 to 1954 during the Korean War, walks Monday from the new Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic at 1815 Belmont Ave. in Youngstown that will be named for Carl Nunziato. The new facility will open Wednesday. Pavlicko learned when he got there that the new facility was not yet open, and the former VA facility up the street was closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
YOUNGSTOWN The new, larger and renamed Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic will open Wednesday, about a half-mile from its current location.
Vaccination plans moving forward in area
School employees vaccinations set this week, veterans vaccinations start next week
Last updated 1/12/2021 at 11:53am
Vaccination planning in the area continue to move forward, with Havre Public Schools’ employees set for vaccination this week and vaccinations for area veterans to start next week with the opening of the new location of the Merril Lundman Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in the Holiday Village Mall. Schedules had to be revised after Gov. Greg Gianforte last week announced major revisions to the vaccination schedule, increasing the age-range allowed under Schedule 1B from 75 and older to 70 and older and adding people ages 16 to 69 with underlying health conditions.