COVID-19 vaccine clinic held for eligible New Hampshire high school students
COVID-19 vaccination clinics for eligible high school students are being held this weekend in Strafford County.
A clinic was held Saturday at Oyster River High School in Durham for any N.H. high school student between 16 and 21.
The Strafford County Emergency Preparedness Manager said they're having success with large scale vaccination clinics.
"We tested models on teachers and we realized that we can handle a large clinics. So Strafford County is really pushing these large clinics," Mary Kerr said.
Kerr said that on Saturday morning, they vaccinated 260 people in 90 minutes, making it one of their fastest efforts.
"We really thought this was most time efficient way of protecting students before they got back into school," said Kerr.
She said they have 3,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and they expect to vaccine around 2,000 students this weekend. They opened up the clinic to all New Hampshire high school students between the age of 16 to 21. The students simply needed to have an ID showing they were at least 16 and be with a parent or guardian or have a consent form.
"As long as you're a high school student and you show up, we will get you vaccinated," Kerr said.
There will be another clinic at Rochester Middle School on Sunday. Kerr said around 60 to 70 percent of eligible students in the Strafford County area are interested in getting the vaccine.
"There's a lot of people who are kind of on the fence about it to, we are big into education and how an MRNA vaccine works," Kerr said.
She said any extra doses after this weekend will go to UNH to help vaccinate their students.