MSU offers free COVID vaccines to students and employees

Mississippi State University received over 1-thousand Pfizer vaccines and 300 Johnson and Johnson shots to administer to its students and employees.

Tonight, a university in northeast mississippi is now extending its offer for free coronavirus vaccines to its students.

Wtva's rhea thornton was in oktibbeha county to find out just how many vaccines the university has to give.

Not too long ago, mississippi state university announced it was offering free coronavirus vaccines to all employees... well now, they've expanded to its students as well.

Brent crocker - emergency manager at msu: "we're going to continue to roll out vaccines as long as we can."

Brent crocker is the emergency manager at mississippi state university.

He said the university currently has 11-hundred and 70 pfizer vaccines and 300 johnson and johnson vaccines available for students and employees.

Brent crocker - emergency manager at msu: "we understand that students sometimes feel like if they do get it, they're not going to be very sick, but we need them to also understand that they could pass it on to someone else."

And no one understands that better than msu junior, olivia snell.

Olivia snell - junior at msu: "i have a great-grandmother who's 96 and so just being able to visit her and see her without the fear of getting her sick and just my other grandparents."

Snell already received her first dose of the vaccine... and she feels that it could only help her fellow classmates to do the same.

Olivia snell - junior at msu: "a normal college life is really important.

Like a lot of us aren't getting a lot out of online classes and i know like for sporting events, we all want to get back in there and cheer on the bulldogs.

So, i think if everyone really just did their part to get back to normal, it would make a big difference."

The university will begin offering the vaccine tomorrow at the hump starting at 9 am and go until noon.

Crocker believes by giving students easy access to the vaccine, it will bring great advancements to the university as a whole.

Brent crocker - emergency manager at msu: "we are a community.

We're a very close community and so we come in contact with each other regularly, even when we try to distance.

So, we want the entire community to do their best to prevent further spread of covid-19 and the vaccine is one of those great steps."

Tag: crocker said the university will continue to give vaccines out for as long as possible... however, the university is on a tight deadline as students leave for summer vacation next month.

Reporting in starkville, rhea thornton wtva 9 news.

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