Mass vaccination clinic Monday at Tantramar Civic Centre, hosted by Corner Drug
Mass vaccination clinics are back in Sackville as of Monday.
The Corner Drug Store is collaborating with Public Health and Vitalité Health Network to take over the Tantramar Civic Centre on Monday and administer roughly 450 doses of Moderna vaccine.
Emails and texts to those already on the Corner Drug waiting list are being sent out offering appointments at the clinic for Monday. You can register for a Corner Drug vaccine clinic on their website: thecornerdrugstore.ca
Here’s Charles Beaver speaking with Erica Butler on Thursday evening, as Corner Drug staff were finishing up another day of vaccinations at their shop.
Vitalité Health Network hosted its last vaccination clinic at the Tantramar Civic Centre on June 5, and then put a pause on mass clinics in Sackville, with the next scheduled clinic weeks away on July 14. That meant Sackvillians looking for a second dose could either wait in the queue at local pharmacies or head to Moncton for clinics there. But now, the queue at pharmacies is about to move much more quickly.
If first dose uptake is any indication, then there are a lot of Sackvillians on the hunt for a second dose right now. According to New Brunswick health department spokesperson Gail Harding, the first-dose vaccination rate recorded in the Sackville area is above 84%, considerably higher than the provincial average at the time of 76.5% of people 12 and over.… Continue