New batch of vaccines arrives in Odessa

ODESSA – Clinic manager Barb Schlimmer has announced that the Odessa Clinic will receive an additional 84 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine this week. Following last week’s mass vaccination at the community center, the original 180 doses were used to inoculate people who had previously signed up on a waiting list. Now she wants to get the word out that additional doses are here, and folks are being urged to call the clinic to put their names on the list for vaccination. Preference will still be given to those over the age of 65 or who have pre-existing health conditions.

Unlike the previous mass vaccination effort held at the community center, this smaller batch of 84 vaccine doses will be administered at the Odessa Clinic. Anyone who desires to be inoculated is encouraged to get their names put on the waiting list because there is always a possibility that fewer than 84 people in the target groups will have signed up. If that is the case, the shots will be used for anyone else on the list, so that no vaccine doses have to be thrown out for not being used up by the deadline set by health authorities.