Three more vaccination clinics, Tabitha partners with LLCHD
This event was previously live-streamed and has since ended.
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Lincoln’s Mayor, along with local health department officials, provides an update to our community’s vaccination progress at 3:30 p.m. We’ll be streaming it live right here on klkntv.com.
Lincoln’s Mayor says that about a third of the county’s population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
About 18,000 residents were vaccinated last week over four mass vaccination clinics.
This week the county will focus on vaccinating those:
- 65 and older
- Educators
- Licensed childcare providers
- Coroners and funeral home staff
- Grocery store employees
- Meatpacking workers
- Transportation workers,
- US Postal Service employees.
With a total of nearly 8,200 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine expected to be delivered, three more mass vaccination clinics will be held this week.
The first is scheduled for Wednesday at Pinnacle Bank Arena (PBA) for residents 71 and older to get their second shot.
A clinic will also be held on Thursday for residents 65 and older, educators, and childcare providers.
Lastly, a clinic will be held on Friday for residents 65 and older, educators, childcare providers, coroners, funeral home staff, grocery store employees, meatpacking workers, transportation workers, and US Postal Service employees.
About 1,000 people are expected to be vaccinated at each clinic.
Moving forward, the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department (LLCHD) is partnering with Tabitha to vaccinate homebound residents. Tabitha will be providing vaccinations to more than 1,200 people, according to the number of residents registered through Lancaster County to date. If you or a loved one qualifies for this program, you can still register for the vaccine through the county’s website and identify as homebound.
The COVID-19 Dashboard has been updated, showing several different statistics. Most notable, Lancaster County’s positivity rate will be calculated differently.
In the past, LLCHD would divide the total number of positive cases by the number of people who got tested. This doesn’t exclude whether someone had been tested multiple times. For example, if you were tested twice in one week- the first test is negative, the second being positive- only your positive test would be counted.
Now, LLCHD will calculate the positivity rate like the state, which is the number of positive tests divided by the number of tests taken.
