The Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi will open as a COVID-19 vaccination site on Saturday, with more than 300 Oakland County Health Division employees planning to inoculate some 3,000 people.
Whoever is vaccinated will receive the Modern injection. All appointment slots are full, the county said Thursday in a statement.
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The county’s health division received 7,200 doses of the Modern vaccine this week, the highest number of vaccine doses it has received in any week since the vaccines began to be launched in December.
The health division notified those eligible about the opportunity to make an appointment based on the state’s COVID-19 vaccination plan and the information provided on the county’s “Save your point” list in the order they were received.
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Vaccines will be administered from 9 am to 5 pm
It is the first time that the site houses one of the municipality’s vaccination clinics. The other clinics in Oakland County were drive-thru locations in places like firefighters.
The Suburban Collection Showplace was previously chosen as the location for a regional field hospital for COVID-19 patients.
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This is the largest site used in Oakland County for vaccines.
In Detroit, the TCF Center garage is being used to vaccinate eligible Detroit residents, with more than 1,000 people scheduled each day this week to be vaccinated.
The Oakland County Health Division will also vaccinate just over 500 people by appointment only on Saturday at its drive-thru vaccination clinic in Southfield. The services at that location are also full, according to a statement from the municipality.
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