The Department of Health is opening the COVID-19 vaccination at its drive-thru clinic to anyone in Phase 1a1 this Saturday and Sunday, December 26-27, from 9 am to 5 pm
Patients do not need a “Vaccine Allocation Card” to receive the vaccine this weekend. Patients enter the Tennessee Riverpark through the entrance near Chattanooga State (not through the entrance near the Navy Reserve Center) and must show their work papers when entering the facility.
How to get there: Hubert Fry Center, 4301 Amnicola Highway, Chattanooga.
A list of Phase 1a1 professions is available on the Department of Health website:
http://health.hamiltontn.org/
Phase 1a1 includes:
· Hospital staff
· First responders
· staff working at COVID-19 mass test sites
· Home health team
· Health service providers for students (primary and secondary education and universities)
· Long-term care staff and residents
· staff and residents of facilities for the intellectually or developmentally disabled, detention centers, children’s services department, rehabilitation and psychiatric hospitals
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is a 2-dose regimen taken 28 days apart. Department of Health officials provide patients with a vaccine reminder card and the date they must return for their second dose.
The Hamilton County Department of Health is following the State’s Vaccine Distribution Plan available at this link: https://www.tn.gov/health/
Questions can be directed to the Department of Health hotline at 423 209-8383.