CLEVELAND — The process of getting vaccinated at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center is about to get even simpler.
According to the Ohio National Guard, walk-in visits will be accepted for the COVID-19 vaccine starting Tuesday, April 27 from 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. A spokesperson for the ONG says registering for an appointment in advance is still encouraged.
During his COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday, Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the Wolstein Center will continue to use the Pfizer vaccine following the temporary pause of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The clinic was only slated to run for eight weeks, originally, with the first six being used specifically for the two-shot Pfizer vaccine. The Wolstein Center had been slated to begin administering the J&J vaccine on Monday, April 26.
Next week will be the seventh week of operation for the mass vaccination site in Cleveland.
"The goal will be to extend that and to extend that a couple of weeks. Next week we will start the seventh week with Pfizer, and most likely the eighth week with Pfizer," DeWine elaborated on the mass vaccination site.
DeWine also said later in the press briefing that the Wolstein Center site could run for as long as four additional weeks.
Anyone looking to schedule a new appointment to receive a COVID-19 vaccine can do so here.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently paused the vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson after several women had adverse reactions to the one-dose shot. However on Friday, a U.S. health panel urged the restart of the J&J vaccine, reporting that out of nearly 8 million people vaccinated before the U.S. suspended J&J’s shot, health officials uncovered 15 cases of a highly unusual kind of blood clot, three of them fatal.
On Friday evening, the pause was lifted, allowing the J&J vaccinations to resume.
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