3:05
- ABC News
- May 1, 2021
Mobile units seen as key to vaccination efforts
Mobile vaccination units offer access and convenience.
3:05
Over in Denver, one health care institution is becoming more strategic in how it operates its mobile clinics as demand starts to decrease.
\"In the last week-and-a-half, we've seen that shift where most people that want to be vaccinated have been vaccinated,\" Mackenzie Holdershaw, the program manager with the Denver Health Mobile Unit, told Denver ABC affiliate KMGH.
The mobile units are now accepting walk-ins and will start offering not one but all three of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines, KMGH reported.
\"There are so many barriers, and we're just trying to figure out how to bring the vaccine to people and make it easy for them,\" Holdershaw told the station. \"We're trying to get ahead of the communities that are a little hesitant or don't have the resources to get a vaccine.\"
Other regions are using mobile clinics to reach vulnerable communities.
Earlier this week, the Michigan state health department announced a new initiative aimed at bringing mobile COVID-19 services, including vaccinations, to Genesee County. The county's largest city is Flint, where 54% of the population is Black and 38.8% live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Both are increased risk factors for COVID-19 complications.
Genesee County lags behind the state average (32%) of those fully vaccinated at 28.8%, according to the county health department.
As vaccine supply increases in California, the Los Angeles County health department recently partnered with Metrolink to bring mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics to two train stations, as part of its efforts to ensure equitable distribution.
Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, which is 42.6% Hispanic according to the Census Bureau, just launched three new mobile clinics to help increase vaccination rates in neighborhoods hit hardest by COVID-19.
Even as Fulton County implements mobile clinics, they're just one way it aims to reach more people.
Paxton also wants to work more with individual health providers like doctor's offices, which may not be able to move the large number of doses that come in vaccine packages, to help facilitate the needed supply.
\"We want to do more of that as we move away from our big-standing vaccine sites,\" she said. \"Basically, we're going to be going smaller. Smaller, but hopefully wider, to get more people.\"
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