If you are a health care provider, emergency service worker or other person in the first group of Oregonians being offered the COVID-19 vaccine, Samaritan Health Services is offering shot clinics three days next week. But there are only 2,000 doses available.
Residents of Lincoln, Benton and Linn counties who are in groups 1-4 of the state’s Phase 1A group can make an appointment through Samaritan to get a first doze of the Pfizer vaccine. The clinic will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 21, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21 in the Willamette Expo Hall of the Linn County Fairgrounds in Albany.
Scheduling instructions are available at samhealth.org/GetTheVaccine. This web page also includes a list of individuals and positions who are eligible, paperwork to be completed before the appointment and directions for the day of the vaccination appointment.
Lincoln County Public Health put together this timeline of COVID-19 vaccinations for four groups of people based on occupation or age.
