Vaccine appointments available through Baptist Health

Baptist Health is currently accepting COVID-19 vaccine appointments at Malvern as the vaccine is available for those 70-plus years of age.

Vaccinations will be administered at Baptist Health Medical Center- Hot Spring

County by appointment only through MyChart.

Individuals must register for an appointment before arriving on-site via MyChart. No walk-ins will be accepted, and on-site registration is not available.

Appointment slots are added in MyChart as soon as new supplies of the vaccine are received.

Please check MyChart for the most up-to-date information regarding vaccine appointment scheduling and location information. Those seeking more information about the COVID-19 vaccine can also visit baptist-health. com/covid-19-vaccine.

Friday, Gov. Asa Hutchinson issued a statement urging people who are eligible for the vaccine to make an ap

pointment.

“It is critical to get our vaccines out as quickly as possible, and we have to catch up on the missed appointments and slow vaccine distribution over the last week,” Hutchinson said. “We need to move to other categories of 1-B, and the sooner we get more of our 70+ vaccinated then the sooner we will be able to add more Arkansans to the eligible list.”

The state Health Department on Thursday reported 493,776 of the 752,525 coronavirus vaccine doses the state has received have been given so far.

The head of the Arkansas Pharmacists Association said its network of community pharmacies are reporting they have adequate capacity to double or triple their appointment slots during the next two weeks. “These vaccines are very effective against COVID-19,” Dr. Jose Romero, Secretary of the Department of Health said. “The faster we can all get vaccinated, the faster we can protect our population and hold off the variant strains that are circulating around the world and in the U.S. Please join us in making up your appointment this weekend if you had to delay it because of the weather.”