Dunn, NC The Harnett Health System is hosting its first COVID-19 vaccination clinic for essential workers in Group 3 on Friday.
The clinic will be offered from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the City of Dunn Community Center at 205 Jackson Road.
According to officials, the Harnett Health System has administered 14,000 vaccines since March, offering mass clinics every week. Friday’s clinic will be the first clinic open to all frontline workers in Group 3. Organizers hope to vaccinate at least 3,000 people in one day – which is double the amount of vaccinations usually given in their clinics.
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Start-up and start-up services are both available and appointments are not required. The clinic will be run by Harnett Health System hospital staff and nursing and medical students from Campbell University.
“I would feel it would give me a little more reassurance and more relief – more comfortable than now,” said 70-year-old Oscar Rodriguez, who arrived before 5:30 a.m. to wait for his second. dose of the vaccine.
“In a gloomy and depressing year, it’s nice to have a ray of hope with these vaccines,” said Cory Hess, president of Harnett Health. ‘People are happy when they leave here and they can go back to their lives and see the grandchildren. again, so that things tend in the right way. ‘
According to Hess, although there are still a significant number of COVID-19 cases in Central Harnett Hospital, the total amount is “not nearly what we had in January.”
People who cannot get a vaccine on Friday can visit a clinic at Western Harnett High School in Lillington on Wednesday 10 March between 10:00 and 14:00.