County hosting vaccine clinics for students returning to class
The Oakland County Health Division will be hosting COVID-19 vaccine clinics for students as they return to class.
According to county officials, the health division is offering school-based clinics to school-age and college students because there are 51,000 county residents from the ages of 12 to 19 years old who have not received their COVID-19 vaccination.
In addition, there are about 66,000 residents 2029 years old who are not immunized. Greater than one in three new COVID-19 cases in Oakland County from Aug. 16-29 were residents 29 years and younger.
The school-based vaccine clinics, which do not require an appointment, will be held as follows:
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• Sept. 3-6 from noon to 5 p.m.
• 301 W. 4th Street Troy School District Service Building
• Sept. 9 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
• 4420 Livernois Road Rochester Community Schools Administration Building • Sept. 9 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
• 601 W. University Drive In addition to vaccinating students age 12-18, the county is also working closely with Oakland County colleges and universities including Lawrence Technological University, Oakland Community College, Oakland University, and Rochester University to offer COVID-19 vaccines to their students over the next two months.
As of Wednesday, over 1.44 million vaccine doses have been administered in Oakland County. The county’s vaccine coverage rate for residents age 12 and older is 71.3 percent while the rate for residents age 16 and older is 72.5 percent.
Aside from these schoolbased clinics, the health division is continuing to administer COVID-19 vaccines from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, at both its North Oakland Health Center in Pontiac and South Oakland Health Center in Southfield in addition to pop-up clinics across the community.
Visit OaklandCountyVaccine.com to locate the nearest health division vaccine clinic. No appointment is necessary, but third dose appointments are recommended.
Those who do not have access to the internet may call the Nurse on Call at (800)-848-5533 Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. for more information.