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Minnesota Department of Health
April 22, 2021
COVID-19 Community Mobile Vaccination Bus Project
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Metro Transit, the Metropolitan Council, and Minnesota Department of Transportation are partnering to bring mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics to communities throughout the state of Minnesota. Metro Transit turned underutilized transit buses into mobile vaccination clinics by removing seating and installing new equipment.
Two mobile vaccination units will begin offering clinics this week and will scale up to six buses by the summer.
- All COVID-19 vaccine is free.
- IDs, proof of citizenship, and insurance are not required.
- The buses are ADA accessible.
- Each bus is prepared to vaccinate around 100 people each day, depending on travel time.
The mobile vaccination units are a highly-targeted vaccine distribution strategy, intended to bring vaccines to people who would otherwise have a hard time getting vaccinated due to barriers, including transportation, technology, and geographic barriers.
We are using state demographic data, vaccination data, testing data, and input from trusted community partners, local public health, and MDH equity leadership to select locations. In addition, community partners can fill out an online form to request a mobile vaccine unit. A request does not guarantee a visit from a mobile unit.
For more information, visit COVID-19 Community Mobile Vaccination Bus Project.
Vaccine Outreach Campaign: Manufacturing Workers
As a part of the statewide "Roll Up Your Sleeves, Minnesota" campaign, Governor Walz is highlighting the state’s outreach efforts focused on connecting manufacturing workers with the resources they need to get vaccinated. The campaign kicked off with food service industry employees and in the coming weeks, workers in other priority frontline sectors will be vaccinated at community vaccination sites.
To keep Minnesota’s economy afloat over the past year and produce the goods Minnesotans and Americans rely on — including personal protective equipment (PPE) — Minnesota’s 8,270 manufacturing companies re-tooled assembly lines and work environments to create safer workplaces for their 324,000 collective employees.
To drive manufacturing workers to Sign Up for the Vaccine Connector and get vaccinated, Department of Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen traveled to Post Consumer Brands in Northfield to attend a Rice County Public Health vaccination pop-up at the food manufacturer’s facility. Commissioner Grove also hosted a roundtable discussion with several manufacturing companies at Anderson Windows in Cottage Grove.
Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Materials
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The situation is changing rapidly. Visit Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) for the most up-to-date information and follow MDH on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram to stay informed.
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