Two new county-overseen COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be opening in Bucks County.
One of the clinics will be at the former H&M store in the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem Township and the second will be at St. Luke’s University Health Network’s Quakertown Campus.
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Bucks County COO Margaret McKevitt said the sites will be able to handle 200 to 500 vaccinations per day Tuesdays through Saturdays with appointments scheduled through the county vaccine registration list.
“We hope to have them running by the end of the month,” McKevitt said.
Since mid-February, the county has supported appointment-only mass vaccination clinics at Bucks County Community College’s main campus in Newtown Township, Bucks County Community College’s Upper Bucks Campus outside of Perkasie, and Bucks County Community College’s Gene and Marlene Epstein Campus at Lower Bucks on Veterans Highway in Bristol Township.
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The county-supported clinics are run by AMI Expeditionary Healthcare under a $14 million contract funded by the federal government.
While the majority of vaccine doses distributed in Bucks County in recent weeks have gone to local hospitals, pharmacies, long-term care facilities, and doctor’s offices outside of the county’s vaccination effort, the county’s efforts have been the most high-profile and are available to every member of the public.
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The county reported earlier this week that vaccine doses provided to Bucks County are expected to increase in the coming weeks.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the U.S. will have enough COVID-19 vaccine doses for every adult in the country by the end of May, according to the BBC.
The three county mass vaccine clinics currently operating have the capacity to vaccinate up to 15,000 people per week, but the sites have only been inoculating a few thousand per week due to vaccine supply limits.
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The Oxford Valley Mall in Middletown Township was looked at as a vaccination clinic site, but it was not announced that it would become one as of Wednesday, according to a source with knowledge.
The Bucks County Health Department reported that 11,028 doses of vaccine were administered last week. Of that number, 2,975 jabs took place at county sites run by AMI Expeditionary Healthcare.
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As of Tuesday, 37,747 Bucks Countians have received one dose of COVID-19 vaccines and 33,900 people have received both doses.
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