OSU offering vaccinations prior to games

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STILLWATER, Okla — As Stillwater remains nether a authorities of exigency owed to COVID-19, Oklahoma State University is kicking disconnected it's archetypal shot crippled of the season.

Many Pokes fans gathered extracurricular Boone Pikens Stadium to tailgate, they besides had an accidental to assistance combat the conflict with COVID.

Campus unit wanted to marque definite that arsenic fans gathered, they did it with wellness and information successful mind.

Today and each location crippled for the season, they volition big vaccine clinics extracurricular the stadium encouraging fans to get vaccinated.

Fans and students are offered the Johnson and Johnson oregon the Moderna vaccines.

They are adjacent holding a vaccine inducement programme called Poke-athon, which enters students into a raffle to triumph prizes.

Barrett Hunter, the Director of Compliance and Risk Management for OSU Medicine, tells 2 News, “everyone is gladsome to beryllium backmost successful assemblage shot mode and we’re trying to adhd to that by you know, with what’s going connected with nationalist wellness and the authorities close now, we’re trying to supply an outlet for radical to, um portion they’re tailgating travel present and get vaccinated to support their community.”

On September 3rd, the Oklahoma State Health Department helped acceptable up tents extracurricular the infirmary successful Stillwater.

The crushed for the tents is they don’t person capable beds and were acrophobic astir 40-thousand radical coming into the metropolis for the crippled and different vacation play events.

The tents volition beryllium utilized to assistance dainty those coming successful with wellness needs different than COVID-19.

The authorities besides activated the aesculapian reserve corp and enactment a telephone retired for assistance from statewide healthcare volunteers.

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