Drop-In Vaccine Clinic Opens In Monument Corridor

CONCORD, CA — A new vaccine site opened Thursday in Concord's Monument Boulevard Corridor to help protect residents of a central Contra Costa neighborhood heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, county officials said.

The Contra Costa Health Services clinic, 1034 Oak Grove Road, is open Tuesday through Saturday for drop-in hours and can provide up to 500 COVID-19 vaccines daily — free of cost.

“Our goal is to ensure that all eligible Contra Costa residents have access to COVID-19 vaccine, which is the best tool we have to protect ourselves and our families from the virus,” said Contra Costa Supervisor Karen Mitchoff, who represents Concord. “We have made tremendous progress in recent weeks, and we are making sure that nobody in the community is left behind.”

The Monument Corridor clinic hours are 12 p.m.-7 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 a.m. -3 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Drop-in hours, when no appointment is required, are 12:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and 4:30 p.m. -7 p.m. Tuesdays.

The clinic is offering all three vaccines:

• Pfizer for eligible patients 16 and older (People under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, or have a parent/guardian available by phone during the vaccination.)
• Moderna for eligible patients 18 and older
• Johnson & Johnson for eligible patients 18 and older (Patients can choose to decline the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the county said.)

Walk-in hours are also offered at vaccine clinics at the Bay Point Family Health Center in Bay Point, the Albert D. Seeno Jr. Pittsburg Youth Development Center in Pittsburg, and the Richmond Memorial Auditorium in Richmond.

Other no-appointment-required opportunities to get vaccinated are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday, May 3-6, when mobile vaccine clinics will be set up at Meadow Homes Elementary School, 1371 Detroit Ave. in Concord and at Ambrose Recreation Center, 3105 Willow Pass Road in Bay Point.

The county is offering COVID-19 vaccines to people 16 or older who live or work in Contra Costa.

More than 1 million people have been vaccinated in Contra Costa and the county's COVID-19 vaccination rate is among the highest in the state — some 70 percent of the county’s 16-and-older population having received at least one dose — but public health officials want to ensure communities with lower vaccination rates gain better access to no-cost clinics and linguistically and culturally appropriate health information about vaccines.