First large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites open in Alabama Updated Feb 02, 2021; Facebook Share Alabama’s first large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites opened Monday and Tuesday in Mobile, Auburn and Hoover, a week before more than a million seniors and essential workers in the state become eligible for shots. Staff and volunteers In Mobile, Lee County and at the Hoover Met will eventually be able to administer more than 1,000 vaccines a day, depending on supply, said Bob Shepard, spokesman for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Shepard said he expected more than 800 vaccines to be administered on Tuesday as the Hoover Met clinic ramps up to full capacity. Some cities and counties have held day-long vaccine clinics, but these are the first efforts to deliver more than a thousand vaccines every day, Monday through Friday.