The Allen County Health Department’s vaccine clinic has been administering about 1,300 vaccines a week, but said it has the capacity for much more.
The clinic opened on January 13 and is open Wednesday through Saturday each week. The health department administered about 700 vaccines in the first week and almost 1,300 in the second week.
Department administrator Mindy Waldron said the clinic is prepared to take on much more and she hopes to see the amount of appointments increase each week. But she also said they’re limited by how much vaccine the county is given.
“I would feel comfortable that, without long lines, we could probably do upwards of 700 easy, and go to 1,000 if we pulled the trigger on bringing in the rest of our staff, a day," Waldron said. "Whereas, we’re only doing about 1,300 a week and it is just related to vaccine coming to us.”
During the Allen County Executive Health Board meeting on Monday night, Waldron said she learned only hours before that Allen County is at the top of the list to receive roll over from counties that are receiving more of the vaccine than they can administer.
Waldron says it’s a good thing to be able to handle more vaccine than the county is receiving, so they’re prepared when more is available.
