Hundreds of cars lined up outside the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds on Tuesday to be among the first to be vaccinated at Southwest Washington’s first mass vaccination site.
Opened under a joint effort between the Washington Department of Health, the National Guard, and the Albertsons/Safeway Pharmacy Operations, the clinic expected to vaccinate as many as 750 people each day this week. Open Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., the vaccination site is available by appointment only. Anyone without an appointment who shows up will be turned away, the Department of Health said online.
Stephen Certo, pharmacy operations director for Safeway/Albertsons Portland division said they had 10 pharmacists helping administer vaccinations, along with one intern and a district manager on site.