Friday’s COVID-19 revaccination clinic is being delayed.
On KVOE’s Newsmaker segment Thursday, Lyon County Public Health Emergency Preparedness Director says bad weather conditions this week forced Public Health to make the adjustment.
The revax pod, as it’s being called, will now be Feb. 25 at the Bowyer Building. The goal is to keep patients with the same times they would have had if Friday’s clinic would have stayed on the schedule.
This eliminates the prime dose clinic originally set for Feb. 25. The current plan has two secondary dose pods next week, the rescheduled one Feb. 25 and another clinic Feb. 26.
Millbern says there is a possibility the scheduled and backlog vaccines could arrive over the next week, which would give Public Health the opportunity of holding both prime and revax pods. If that happens, Public Health would call on community partners like Newman Regional Health to get people vaccinated.
Following the interview, KVOE News fielded several questions about whether the delay means lower effectiveness for the second dose and Millbern says a delay of a week won’t have any impact on vaccine effectiveness. In fact, Public Health’s recommendation is that people get secondary doses between four and six weeks after the first shot.
