Health & Fitness
Ripken Stadium Mass Vaccination Site Is Now Open
The mass vaccination site opened Thursday as a drive-thru in Aberdeen.
ABERDEEN, MD — A mass vaccination site opened Thursday, April 22, in Harford County.
Located at Ripken Stadium, the COVID-19 vaccination site will operate as an eight-lane drive-thru, according to Harford County Council President Patrick Vincenti.
"They'll be opening up with four lanes during the soft opening and looking to administer 500 doses, with the capacity to step up to 3,000 doses per day," Vincenti said at the County Council meeting Tuesday night.
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"Within a week's time I believe they're going to be setting aside 200 doses for those individuals who do not have an appointment; they can just drive up [and] get a vaccination," Vincenti said.
Those who want to schedule an appointment should visit the state's mass vaccination registration website at https://onestop.md.gov/preregi...
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For the first two days the Ripken site is open, 500 appointments have been scheduled, according to Harford County Health Officer Dr. David Bishai.
"I promise you will get an appointment within the next week," Bishai said, encouraging people to go online to schedule an appointment.
"Starting next Tuesday, there will be same-day vaccination," Bishai said, reporting at Tuesday's council meeting.
About 28 percent of Harford County residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the Maryland Department of Health reported Wednesday, which is on par with the state average.
Bishai encouraged everyone who has been vaccinated to nudge their family members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as well.
"And just to remind people under 18, they should be really going to Ripken where they do have the Pfizer vaccine, for which 16- and 17-year-olds are eligible," Bishai said. He has reported in recent weeks that the county has been in a fourth wave of the coronavirus, driven in part by young people.
"Hospital admissions are really not going down for people age 20 to 64," Bishai said Tuesday, reporting on the state of the virus in Harford County. "We're seeing about 10 admissions per day in that age group. And that's as high as it's ever been throughout the pandemic."
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