Vaccine Information

• Cuyahoga County Board of Health’s current COVID-19: Phase 1B Provider List, sorted by city with contact information for each location: https://www.ccbh.net/covid-19-phase-1b-provider-list/ 
  
  
• View the list of providers throughout the state by clicking here to visit the Ohio Department of Health’s COVID website.
  • In order to effectively serve seniors in Phase 1B of the state vaccination program, many local medical providers are offering vaccines to those 65 years of age and older. You must directly contact the provider of your choice from the list to schedule a vaccine appointment.
    
    
• If you signed up at www.ccbh.net/vax to be notified when spots are open at one of the Cuyahoga County Board of Health COVID-19 clinics, you will still be able to receive a vaccine from them, but you may wait longer than if you choose a provider from this list.
  
  
• United Way’s 2-1-1 HelpLink can assist those eligible for Phase 1B inoculations with scheduling. Call them Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. HelpLink also provides resources and referrals for seniors and others with severe chronic diseases who wish to schedule vaccinations.
  
  
• COVID-19 Vaccine Fact Sheet: Priority Populations and Vaccine Distribution
  
  
  

College Communications

Feb. 9 - Dr. Johnson Encourages COVID-19 Vaccination

The process took only seconds, but that was enough time for Tri-C President Alex Johnson to protect his family, friends and community — as well as himself — from COVID-19.

Johnson recently received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Care Alliance Health Center in Cleveland. He became eligible Feb. 1.

The video, posted below as well as to the College’s YouTube channel shares Johnson’s quick and painless experience at the clinic. The goal, he said, is to encourage others in the community to get vaccinated. 

“I’ve completed the vaccination process, and I’m experiencing nothing at all in response to it with the exception of happiness that I’ve finally gotten it over with,” Johnson said in the video.

Care Alliance is administering vaccines by appointment only on Tuesdays and Thursdays at its clinic, located at 2916 Central Ave. in Cleveland. Call 216-535-9100 and select option 6 to schedule a time.

Visit vaccine.coronavirus.ohio.gov to find other vaccine locations or call the United Way’s 2-1-1 HelpLink for information on the vaccine, eligibility and inoculation sites. 

Dr. Claude Jones, president and CEO of Care Alliance, joined Johnson in the video. The College and Care Alliance have partnered to bring COVID-19 testing to the community at Tri-C sites.

Testing is currently offered at the College three days a week. Visit tri-c.edu/covidtest for a full schedule.

Jan. 29 - COVID-19 Vaccines

Throughout the nation, state and local governments are being asked to allow college and university faculty, staff and students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the same time as public school teachers and students. In Ohio, K-12 student and teacher inoculations begin Feb. 1 as part of Phase 1B.

Along with colleagues from across the state, I have been working with the Ohio Association of Community Colleges to impress upon Gov. Mike DeWine and Chancellor Randy Gardner the need for earlier vaccines for community colleges.

Our advocacy will continue, and I hope we are successful. In the meantime, if you choose to take the vaccine, I encourage you to do so as soon as you become eligible. Vaccines are in short supply, and Gov. DeWine has warned that those who don’t take the vaccine when offered may have to wait until more doses become available later in the year.

Information on vaccination sites in Cuyahoga County and across the state is available on the College’s coronavirus webpage. Those eligible for Phase 1B inoculations can also locate vaccine providers by calling United Way’s 2-1-1 HelpLink Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. HelpLink also provides resources and referrals for seniors and others with severe chronic diseases who wish to schedule vaccinations.

—Alex Johnson