The Pharmacy at Wellington's Temporary COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic

Temporary COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic Closed, Vaccines Given at The Pharmacy

Your emails and messages have touched our hearts and we thank you for taking the time to let us (or others via Google maps or Facebook) know about your experience.  With renewed enthusiasm and continued focus, we are now providing COVID-19 vaccines at our pharmacy location.

Our temporary vaccine clinic is closed due to a drop-off in the demand for COVID-19 vaccines.  We are hopeful that interest in getting vaccinated against COVID-19 will increase, so that it may be re-opened to serve the Little Rock and surrounding areas.  As many of you may be aware:

• Healthcare workers and scientists are just beginning to gather data on "long covid", which are ongoing health problems that people can experience more than four weeks after being first infected.  This includes people who did not have symptoms when first infected.

• Laboratory studies suggest specific monoclonal antibody treatments may be less effective for treating cases of COVID-19 caused by certain variants.

• In addition to the variants Alpha (B.1.1.7, first identified in the UK), Beta (B.1.351, first identified in South Africa), Gamma (P.1, first identified in Brazil), and Delta (B.1.617.2, first identified in India), now there is a Delta Plus variant (AY.1, identified in Europe).

• The CDC and FDA are considering the possibility of extending eligibility for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to children aged 5 to 11.

The vaccines that we currently administer are expected to provide at least some protection against new virus variants because they elicit a broad immune response involving a range of antibodies and cells. Therefore, changes or mutations in the virus should not make vaccines completely ineffective. In the event that any of these vaccines prove to be less effective against one or more variants, it will be possible to change the composition of the vaccines to protect against these variants.

The pandemic isn't over until it's over.

Let's continue to do our part, per current recommendations from the WHO (World Health Organization):

References and Resources:

• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects.html
• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-info.html
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57564560
• https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-explains/delta-plus-key-things-to-know-about-new-coronavirus-variant-in-india/articleshow/83739996.cms?from=mdr
• https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-effects-of-virus-variants-on-covid-19-vaccines?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItrLmuv2z8QIVSGpvBB3lQAmLEAAYASAAEgLhH_D_BwE