Cheshire Medical Center in Keene hosted a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinic Saturday for children receiving their first shots and adults getting boosters.About 1,000 patients were vaccinated at what nurses are calling their biggest drive-thru vaccine clinic ever.Pediatrics and family medicine nurse manager Kristen Lippincott-Battey said it is great that people want to get their boosters since there is “so much COVID-19 in the community.””We had a lot of people who wanted to sign up, and we just kept increasing our numbers because we want to help as many patients as we could,” Lippincott-Battey said.Nashua’s clinic on Friday also quickly hit capacity. Officials eventually needed to turn away walk-in patients. Durham canceled its clinic scheduled for Monday due to a lack of resources to accommodate everyone trying to get vaccinated.Cheshire County, like others statewide, has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks.”There’s definitely an uptick, especially with travel and the recent holiday,” said pediatric nurse Stefanie Ramsay. ” We are definitely seeing numbers rise.”Lippincott-Battey said the case increase is all the more reason to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.”Vaccination is the best thing that we can do and wearing masks every time we go out,” Lippincott Battey said.
Cheshire Medical Center in Keene hosted a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinic Saturday for children receiving their first shots and adults getting boosters.
About 1,000 patients were vaccinated at what nurses are calling their biggest drive-thru vaccine clinic ever.
Pediatrics and family medicine nurse manager Kristen Lippincott-Battey said it is great that people want to get their boosters since there is “so much COVID-19 in the community.”
“We had a lot of people who wanted to sign up, and we just kept increasing our numbers because we want to help as many patients as we could,” Lippincott-Battey said.
Nashua’s clinic on Friday also quickly hit capacity. Officials eventually needed to turn away walk-in patients.
Durham canceled its clinic scheduled for Monday due to a lack of resources to accommodate everyone trying to get vaccinated.
Cheshire County, like others statewide, has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks.
“There’s definitely an uptick, especially with travel and the recent holiday,” said pediatric nurse Stefanie Ramsay. ” We are definitely seeing numbers rise.”
Lippincott-Battey said the case increase is all the more reason to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Vaccination is the best thing that we can do and wearing masks every time we go out,” Lippincott Battey said.
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