Davis County health officials say they are working to reopen a mass vaccination site Tuesday. (Mark Wetzel, KSL-TV)
FARMINGTON – Predicting the current trend of COVID-19 and pending guidance from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on booster shots will lead to increased demand for vaccines in the coming weeks, Davis County health officials said they are working to reopen a mass vaccination site.
“We believe in the convenience and the way it went, people feel comfortable coming here,” said Dave Spence, deputy director of the Davis County Department of Health, referring to Farmington’s Legacy Events Center.
From December 2020 to June 2021, the center was a clinic for anyone who received their vaccine.
After providing more than 222,000 doses of the vaccine, demand declined, doctors and pharmacies intervened, and like so many other vaccination sites across the state, the Legacy Center closed its doors to firing.
Now, with the worrying current trend of COVID-19, state leaders are once again insisting on the need to get the vaccine to combat the effects of COVID-19 and curb its spread.
The CDC recommends immunocompromised individuals to have a third dose, and in the coming weeks they are expected to recommend everyone receive a booster vaccine eight months after receiving their second dose.
“We are anticipating that there will be an increase and need for this convenient site,” Spence said.
“The urgency is to vaccinate everyone,” said Wendy Garcia, director of nursing for the health department.
Garcia emphasized the possibility of firing to protect the unvaccinated, including children who are not eligible.
“We protect them. We vaccinate the rest of the people around them,” he said.
We anticipate that there will be an increase and the need for this convenient site.
–Dave Spence, Davis County Department of Health
Reopening the site requires a lot of work and Davis County Health hires several sites, including volunteer ones.
Spence said they expected more guidance from the CDC, but plans to open the site in late September, which would be eight months after the first group of health workers received their second dose of vaccine.
“I think vaccines are the proven way to get out of it,” Spence said.