photo by: Ashley Golledge

Jolene Bechtel administers a COVID-19 vaccine at the Douglas County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, March 31, 2021.

Douglas County has about 1,900 open appointment slots for its COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic on Wednesday, according to a news release on Tuesday afternoon.

Any Douglas County resident 16 or older can make an appointment by entering code 284987 at LDCHealth.org/GetMyVaccine. The Pfizer vaccine will be given at Wednesday’s clinic. Appointments are available from 11:30 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. and are first come, first served.

The county press release said appointment notifications had been sent out this week to those who submitted an entry on the vaccine interest form, but that nearly 2,000 appointments were available.

“We’re seeing a lower acceptance rate lately, likely as people are able to get vaccines from pharmacies and other providers, which is good news,” Sonia Jordan, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s director of informatics, said in the release. “Data from the state has shown Douglas County has vaccinated at the highest rate in the state right now, and we ask anyone who has not yet had their turn to make an appointment so we can continue at our high rate of vaccinations.”

Selection for the vaccine each week will still begin with those who have submitted the Vaccine Interest Form, so Douglas County encourages anyone interested in receiving the vaccine to fill out the form online at dgcoks.org/vaccineinterestform. Anyone who would like to remove their name from the form may do so online at dgcoks.org/removemefromform.