Health department to hold open vaccine clinics for first doses moving forward Information submitted Tuesday, March 2, 2021 9:01 AM VAN WERT – On Tuesday, the Van Wert County Health Department announced that they will not be taking names for a COVID-19 vaccination waiting list or calling to schedule appointments for first dose vaccination clinics. "We apologize if you are on the vaccination waiting list and have not been contacted, but our staff has spent many hours trying to contact people to schedule vaccinations," said Environmental Health Director Britt Menchhofer. "We feel that we have exhausted this list and have tried to the best of our ability to contact