By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — In addition to the public vaccination clinic at the Sports Arena Friday, there are a few more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that will be distributed later this month.
"We are looking at getting some vaccine into the pharmacies," Karen Hammersmith with the Reno County Health Department said Tuesday. "I'm waiting to hear from them later this week if that happens. They have been registered, quite a few of them and hoping that they're going to get some shipments in as well, although, what they have heard, it's very small amounts."
Also, Prairie Star has been getting doses, and the Hutch Clinic will have some.
"We're giving a hundred to Prairie Star and we're also giving a hundred to the clinic," Hammersmith said. "They've got some high-risk patients there that they will get in arms that we don't necessarily want to give that vaccine at a pod."
If, for example, someone is immunocompromised, it may be better to get their shot at a doctor's office than at the Sports Arena clinic.
"They are much sicker than other people," Hammersmith said. "People that are on chemotherapy, I don't necessarily want to bring them into the pod setting, because they are more vulnerable than most people, even though we are doing social distancing, just trying to keep those people a little bit further at bay."
Both Dillons and Walmart pharmacies are signed up for the federal program to receive vaccine doses. They hope to get them next week.
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