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YCOE, County Administers New Booster at Drive-Thru Vaccine Clinic
A Weekend Drive-Thru Vaccine Clinic in Woodland Offered the New Bivalent Booster to Local Residents
Woodland, CA – On Saturday, September 17, the Yolo County Office of Education (YCOE) held a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at their main administrative building, located at 1280 Santa Anita Ct. in Woodland. The five-hour clinic was held in partnership with Yolo County and First 5 Yolo.
The drive-thru clinic was one of the first local vaccine clinics to offer the new bivalent booster. In all, the clinic administered 140 vaccine doses, of which 125 were of the newly updated booster.
“The vaccine clinic was truly a family-friendly event. Volunteers were distributing teddy bears to children in attendance. The California Department of Public Health provided a taco truck,” said YCOE public information officer Anthony Volkar. “We were also fortunate to have cooler temperatures and be able to offer a drive-thru format. For all those reasons, we had a great turnout throughout the day.”
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On August 31, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided emergency use authorization for the new bivalent booster, also referred to as the “updated booster”. The booster has been revised to strengthen protection against the original COVID-19 strain, while also targeting the newer, dominant variants of Omicron that have spread so rapidly this summer.
The bivalent booster is a single dose vaccine that can be given at least two months after the initial two doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, or after a single dose of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, or two months after a booster shot from the original vaccine.
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For those seeking the new bivalent booster, the state’s MyTurn registration system (myturn.ca.gov) allows individuals to make appointments or locate a walk-in clinic. Yolo County is also continuing to host weekly vaccine clinics on Thursday at 500 Jefferson St. in West Sacramento and Fridays at 137 N. Cottonwood St. in Woodland. You are advised to confirm the clinic time on the Yolo County website or on Yolo County social media.