Knox County plans on opening COVID-19 clinic

Grocery store workers.

Folks in knox county are getting anxious to get more vaccines to the public.

Believe it or not...many vaccines have sat unused in freezers the health department will soon open up it's own clinic to distribute.

News 10 bureau chief gary brian tells us where folks will be able to go.

Gar} "covid-19 vaccines have been in distribution here in knox county for weeks now.

While the process to get the vaccines out has gone well...turnout hasn't been as good."

Good samaritan hospital was picked to distribute the vaccine for knox, daviess, and pike county health care workers.

Around 2,000 workers received the vaccine.

However there are about 5,000 workers who are eligible.

With plenty of vaccines in the freezers...the health department is anxious to continue vaccinating the public.

Last week the health department decided to give out the vaccine to some essential workers.

Dr. alan stewart says they are now setting up a clinic to give out the vaccine to the public.

That clinic will be at community methodist church.

Stewart says they will continue to follow the state's mandates on distribution.

He says he is anxious to get the vaccine out quickly.

"we are anxious to get the vaccine out.

We need to get it out of the freezers.

We need to get it into people.

The more we can start vaccinating our community, we are going to see the number of cases, certainly the number of deaths and the number of hospitializations hopefully start going down."

The health department's clinic will open monday the 11th.

In vincennes, gary brian news 10.