COVID-19 vaccinations to end at Jim Miller Park on June 19

Jim Miller Park COVID vaccine appointments — *Cobb and Douglas Health has been administering COVID-19 vaccines at Jim Miller Park since January.*

Cobb and Douglas Public Health is winding down its free COVID-19 vaccination site at Jim Miller Park soon, but will continue providing innoculations to the public at various locations indefinitely.

Assistant director Lisa Crossman told the Cobb Board of Commissioners Tuesday that the last day for vaccinations at Jim Miller Park (2245 Callaway Road, Marietta) will be June 19.

Vaccinations are provided there six days a week and members of the public can make an appointment or walk up.

“That doesn’t mean we’re done vaccinating,” she said.

Information on getting vaccination at Jim Miller Park and satellite locations can be found here, along with other details getting a COVID-19 vaccine through Cobb and Douglas Public Health.

A number of “pop up” vaccine locations that have also been in use will continue for the time being.

“We’ll do it until we don’t see a need,” Crossman said.

There’s not a specific location in East Cobb scheduled for this week; the closest spot it the Dwell@750 apartments (750 Franklin Gateway), from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday.

We noted over the weekend that Cobb’s transmission rate of the virus had fallen below what’s called “high community spread”—a 14-day average under 100 cases per 100,000 people.

She also said the COVID-19 test positivity rate is at its lowest in many months, 1.9 percent. Public health officials say anything less than 5 percent is good, and while the numbers across the board in Cobb “are headed in the right direction” she urged the public not to let its guard down.

Cobb’s rate of “fully vaccinated people”—those having received both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine—is 37 percent, and more than 43 percent have had one dose.

Those numbers are slightly higher than Georgia’s overall figures, but are below the national average.

President Joe Biden has set a 70 percent vaccination goal for the country by July 4. Crossman said while it’s doubtful Cobb will reach that target, “we’re going to give it our best shot.”

She said the vaccinations are available to anyone 12 years of age or older, and encouraged parents sending their children to summer camps to get vaccinated.

Crossman also said businesses with 25 or more employees can have Cobb and Douglas Public Health come to their workplaces and provide vaccinations and said the scheduling is flexible, and can be done in the early evenings and on the weekends