Do you need to get both COVID vaccine doses at same place? FacebookTwitterEmail Connecticut health officials say it’s preferred, but should not be required, for a person to receive both doses of the vaccine at the same location.Thomas Kienzle / Getty Images Anthony Santella was trying to help his father schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments, but he says he was twice denied at one facility. Santella, who lives on Long Island, had easily scheduled his father, an 81-year-old Norwalk resident, for his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Norwalk Community Health Center. But he was unable to get an appointment for his father to get the second dose there.