There will be a COVID-19 vaccination opportunity for 1,000 Phase Two recipients Saturday in Junction City. This event will be held at the Shenk Gym at Junction City High School from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Garry Berges, Geary County Emergency Management Director, explained that they're asking people in Phase Two that need the shot to sign up for an appointment. "Especially we're trying to target the elderly and the minority group of people, those that live in Geary County to get on the Hy-Vee.com website and sign up.
You do need to register. Go to Hy-Vee.com/COVID and click find appointment. Choose Kansas and you will be connected to the event scheduled in Junction City. You can then sign up for a time.
Kyle Odem. Manager of the Hy-Vee store in Manhattan, stated that they want to do one vaccination every five minutes at each of 16 different vaccination stations in the Shenk Gym.
Odem said the State reached out to Hy-Vee to see what they could do to host an event in Geary County. "So, once we got the heads up on that it was just hunting down a location and then working with our partner stores in Topeka and Lawrence and the University of Kansas to get as many vaccinators together as possible so we could take care of as many residents as possible in one day."
Chairs will be set up six feet apart throughout the gym for social distancing. Once you get your vaccination there will be a 15-minute waiting period for the recipients.
This will be the first COVID-19 vaccination for recipients. Odem confirmed that In approximately three weeks there will be clinic once more information is available on a site location and date more information will be announced.
To schedule your appointment between 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., please visit https://www.hy-vee.com/my-pharmacy/covid-vaccine-consent?event=9ac2c15b-a99b-4bcd-b515-9800b1865a7a.
To schedule your appointment between 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., please visit https://www.hy-vee.com/my-pharmacy/covid-vaccine-consent?event=44c5b1db-dbf2-44f2-b18e-5f8059be7505.
Berges encouraged everyone to reach out to their elderly neighbors and help them get up to receive the vaccine. If they need a ride to get to the vaccine site, offer to drive them.
The Covid 19 Phase Two groups follow:
Health care workers
Residents 65 years of age and older
High-contact critical workers including:
Firefighters, police officers, first responders, correction officers
Grocery store workers and food services
K-12 and childcare workers including, teachers, custodians, drivers and other staff
Food processing, including meat processing plants
Large-scale aviation manufacturing plants
Transportation workers
Workers in the following industries if they regularly need to be in high-risk settings to perform their duties:
Retail, warehouses and sales outlets
Agriculture
Supply of critical services or materials for the COVID response
The U.S. Postal Service
Department of Motor Vehicles