ETSU Health offering COVID-19 vaccines

(May 18, 2021) There are several upcoming opportunities to receive the COVID-19 vaccination on the campus of East Tennessee State University:

• ETSU Health will offer the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on May 19, 20 and 21, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on the second floor of the D.P. Culp Student Center. Enter on the second floor entrance off of Seehorn Drive (below the third-floor ramp). This single-dose vaccine is free and open to anyone age 18 and older. No appointments are required.
  
  
• In addition, ETSU Health will offer the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday, May 29, from 10 a.m. to noon in the ballroom at ETSU’s Millennium Centre, 2001 Millennium Place. Patients may park on the third level or above in the parking garage adjacent to the Millennium Center and follow the signs to ballroom. This single-dose vaccine is free and open to anyone age 18 and older. No appointments are required.

The ETSU Health vaccine clinic will administer Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, which only requires one shot. Following a pause of the Janssen Johnson & Johnson vaccine and a thorough safety review, the CDC and the FDA determined that the recommended pause of the vaccine in the U.S. should be lifted and use of the vaccine should resume. The FDA has determined that the available data show that the vaccine’s known and potential benefits outweigh its known and potential risks in individuals 18 years of age and older. More details about the decision is available here.

For more information about the ETSU Health vaccine clinic, call 423-439-EVAX (3829). Patients with questions about the vaccine should contact their physician. We hope that all members of the ETSU community will get vaccinated as soon as possible. More information about other vaccine locations in our region is available here.