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Patients sit above the Hammons Student Center court after receiving their COVID-19 vaccine during the Mass Vaccination Site, hosted by Missouri State and the Springfield-Greene County Health Department Thursday, April 8. After receiving their dose, patients were instructed to sit for about 15 minutes to ensure they feel well and are not experiencing any severe side effects. 10,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be available to Missouri residents over the two-day event.
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A dose of the Johnson & Johnsonâs Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine lays out on a table, ready for administration, during the Mass Vaccination Site held by Missouri State University and the Springfield-Greene County Health Department Thursday, April 8 in Hammons Student Center. The two-day event, held Thursday and Friday, April 9, will include 10,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
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Springfield Ballet Executive Director Ashley Walden, and Springfield Ballet School Principal Maria Hall.
“We are really excited to be able to provide this production,” said Walton. “We did it back in 2014, and are just honored to be able to bring it back this year.
Opening the performance will be a new piece choreographed by Maria Hall. “I actually grew up dancing at Springfield Ballet,” she said. And then I went to college to get a degree, danced a little bit professionally, and then came back. And now it s full circle being School Principal at the Ballet. It s really special.” This “Cinderella” production, with original choreography by Springfield Ballet staff, was Hall’s final show with the company before she left for college in 2014. “To be able to come back and reteach the choreography, give it some new, different moves and artistic qualities, and also choreograph a contemporary ballet piece for some of the dancers, was really special for me, using new
A mega vaccine event mounted at the campus of Missouri State University on Thursday and Friday didn t meet its stated goal of vaccinating 10,000 Missourians, despite the fact that Gov. Mike Parson said earlier in the week that the event would welcome walk-ins with no online registration needed.
Even so, turnout broke a single-day state record for vaccinating people against COVID-19, according to a Springfield-Greene County Health Department news release issued early Friday evening.
The health department said that over the two-day event, 6,131 individuals were vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson s one-dose shot.
On Friday, 4,385 doses were administered, breaking a single-day record of 3,999 doses set earlier by St. Charles County. The health department said Springfield s mega event was the largest one-dose vaccination event in the state of Missouri to date.