US Closes Mass Vaccination Sites Due To Falling Demand

Breakdown of recent vaccination site closures (Forbes):

•Palm Beach County, Florida, is shutting down three mass vaccination sites in favor of new mobile vaccination efforts, after the sites were operating at only 50% capacity this week.

•Mass vaccination sites in Clarkesville, Georgia, and North Carolina will shut down by the end of May, and Summit County, Ohio, canceled a planned mass vaccination clinic on April 27 citing “decreased demand.”

•Several Texas mass vaccination sites in Williamson and Galveston counties are shutting down, and Galveston officials asked the state not to send the county any vaccine next week as the number of residents making vaccine appointments declines.

•Waukesha County, Wisconsin, will likely shut down its mass vaccine site to new first doses by the end of the week, as the county hits its target of 60% of eligible residents being vaccinated.

•Some vaccination locations have made plans to close before this week: Sites in Las Vegas and Cascade County, Montana, were announced to be shutting down last week, for instance, while Mercer County, Ohio, shuttered their drive-through mass vaccine clinic earlier in April.

•Officials are reporting noticeable decreases in the number of people getting inoculated in areas where sites are not closing, including in Texas, Idaho, Missouri, Alabama, Maine and Maryland.