Hours Expanded At Camden County COVID Clinic; Pop-Up Sites Set

CAMDEN COUNTY, NJ — Camden County is opening two pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites on Friday, and Cooper University Health has announced expanded hours for one of its existing sites.

The vaccine clinics, located at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and Farnham Park in Camden, will be open to walk-up patients in two heavily trafficked city areas, county officials announced on Thursday.

The clinic at the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 422 Market Street in Camden, will open at 9:30 a.m. The clinic at Farnham Park, Baird and Park boulevards, opens at 1 p.m.

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“For the second time this week, our team will be in the heart of our community to offer the opportunity to get vaccinated,” Camden County Commissioner Al Dyer said. “With demand for the vaccines beginning to decline, the Board is not abandoning this mission. We will continue to seek and implement new modes of bringing the vaccine directly to our residents until we have reached herd immunity and put this pandemic behind us.”

Also on Thursday, Cooper University Health announced the hours at the COVID-19 Vaccination and Education Center at the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Community Center in East Camden are expanding.

COVID-19 vaccinations at the site are available Mondays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Appointments may be scheduled online at my.cooperhealth.org or by calling 856-225-6141. Vaccinations are also available on a walk-in basis. Multi-lingual staff are available at the center to help residents sign up and to provide vaccine education.

As of Thursday, more than 233,000 residents have gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Camden County, according to officials. This is more than 50 percent of the total adult population.

As of Thursday, 392,524 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Camden County. There are 233,160 people with at least one vaccine dose, and 175,489 people who are fully vaccinated.

“Every day that we administer more vaccines into the community, we get closer to herd immunity and the end of this pandemic,” Camden County Commissioner Director Louis Cappelli Jr. said. “There are still more than one hundred thousand eligible county residents who have not gotten their first dose yet. We have opened up the County vaccination center in Blackwood to walk-in patients and are continuing our aggressive push to get people vaccinated with pop-up clinics tomorrow in the City of Camden. If you haven’t gotten your vaccine yet, now is the time to do so – it has never been easier.”

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