Southwest Community Health Center opened its new
mass COVID-19 vaccination site in Bridgeport today.
The site at 1020 Fairfield Ave. will be open
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Health care workers from the facility have
administered vaccinations at another site down the road since
December, but they say this new location will allow them to
accommodate more people.
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The site will be able to give out 400 doses per
day.
Mollie Melbourne, the CEO of Southwest Community
Health Center, says she hopes to expand that number as supply
grows.
"We are thrilled that we have this location
available to us, we use it for testing when we're not doing mass
vaccination," Melbourne says. "But we're able to really move
through a very large number of people in a fairly short amount of
time."
Carmen Rivera-Torres, the chief nursing officer
at the center, adds, "It's extremely important that our patients
understand the safety of the vaccine, that we're here for them,
that we're here to stand alongside them, that we will get through
this together, as one community."
All vaccinations are by appointment only through
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