Vehicles were bumper-to-bumper for blocks on McGehee Road in Montgomery this morning for the start of a week-long COVID-19 vaccine clinic.
The clinic coincided with today’s expansion of those eligible for shots in Alabama, a new group that includes ages 65 to 74.
The Montgomery clinic, at the former site of the Montgomery Mall, is one of eight in Alabama that will go Monday through Friday.
Baptist Health is managing the Montgomery clinic. It’s a first-come, first-served clinic with no appointments and will go from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The plans are for each of the eight clinics to give as many as 5,000 shots this week.
The Montgomery clinic started out well ahead of that pace. Montgomery City/County Emergency Management Agency Director Christina Thornton said the clinic would give between 2,000 and 2,100 shots on the first day by the time it closed tonight at 7.
Thornton said Baptist Health supplemented the shots available for the clinic by using about 1,000 from its store of second doses because those will be replenished. That would allow the clinic to give 2,000 shots today and still have 4,000 available for the rest of the week, Thornton said.
Thornton said today’s heavy turnout was not a surprise. She said it was expected based on turnout at another recent clinic at the same place and because of the expansion in who is eligible.
Baptist Health lists those eligible for the shots as:
People age 65 and older; healthcare workers; first responders including EMS, firefighters, and law enforcement; and frontline critical workers, who include corrections officers, food and agriculture workers, U.S. Postal Service workers, manufacturing workers, grocery store workers, public transit workers, people who work in the education sector (teachers, support staff, community college and higher education), childcare workers, judiciary (including but not limited to) circuit judges, district judges and district attorneys, and people that work or live in congregate settings.
Ethel McClain of Montgomery, 65, said she waited about two and a half hours to receive her shot, which came shortly after 11 a.m. McClain said it was worth the wait.
“When I heard they were giving it today, I didn’t hesitate,” McClain said.
Ethel McClain of Montgomery gives a thumbs-up after her COVID-19 shot at a Montgomery clinic this morning at fire station No. 9 at the site of the old Montgomery Mall. The clinic is scheduled to be open every day through Friday. McClain was the 477th person to receive a shot at the clinic this morning, as marked on her windshield.
Organizers funneled the vehicles into three lines through the open bays of fire station No. 9 at the south end of complex that was once the mall. People received the shots in their vehicles. Clinic workers wrote numbers and times in erasable marker on windshields. Workers and police directed the shot recipients from the fire station to a parking area for a 15-minute wait to make sure there was no severe reaction.
McClain was the 477th person to receive a shot this morning. She said it was the Pfizer vaccine. She received a card with a date to return for the second dose in a few weeks. Follow-up clinics are planned in Montgomery and at the other seven sites for second doses.
Michele L. Canady, a substitute teacher at Brewbaker Technology Magnet High School in Montgomery since 2004, received her shot this morning and worked as a clinic volunteer. She checked on shot recipients as they waited their 15 minutes for possible reactions.
“It was so exciting to me, being a part of something bigger than myself,” Canady said. “I knew I wanted to come help.”
Michele L. Canady, a volunteer at the shot clinic in Montgomery this morning, checks on Jack and Rose Ingram of Dothan after they received their vaccinations.
Autauga County Emergency Management Agency Director Ernie Baggett said about noon that the clinic was operating smoothly. He said there were some problems with traffic control early in the morning but that was fixed. Baggett said he would be working at the clinic all week.
“We’re all throwing in in this one,” Baggett said.
Vehicles lined up for shots at the COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Montgomery on Monday. The clinic gave 2,000 shots on the first day of a week-long event.
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