“Since children are back in school and people are resuming pre-pandemic activities and behaviors, there is the potential for increased risk of exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19,” Greene County Public Health said. “GCPH is confident in the vaccine as an effective measure to prevent the severe consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death.”
Long-term effects from mild COVID-19 cases have the potential to affect children and updated bivalent boosters were created to contain original SARS-CoV-2 strains and the omicron BA.4/5 variants, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
About 79% of the circulating strains are BA.5, and the rest are other omicron variants, the CDC continued.
People can walk in every Friday morning from 8:30 to 10 a.m. and in the afternoon from 2 to 3:30 p.m. for the vaccine.
“GCPH is confident in the vaccine as an effective measure to prevent the severe consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death,” GCPH said.
Walk-ins are accepted and registration is also available online.
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