Wondering how to get your COVID Vaccine? Del Norte County Public Health is offering free vaccinations to all comers Tuesdays & Wednesdays from 10am to Noon, at the fairgrounds in Crescent City. No appointment necessary.

It’s as simple as following the giant color coded signs.

Step 1. Fill out a form. Step 2. Show the friendly and helpful volunteers your form. Step 3. Get vaccinated. Step 4. Hang out for 15 minutes. It’s as simple as that.

Now that you know how to get vaccinated, why should you get vaccinated?

We asked Head Volunteer-Volunteer (one who volunteers to be the Head Volunteer) Debra Wakefield.

From Debra Wakefield:

If you’ve already got your vaccine, you’re already part of the solution here in Del Norte County. So the only way we’re going to stop this virus is by getting as many people vaccinated as we can. So the reason you should come down is for yourself, to be safe. It’s for your family, to keep all your family members safe—grandma, grandpa, kids, everybody. And in my book it’s for your community, we want to open up our businesses, we want to have as normal a life as you possibly can here in Crescent City. Only way we’re going to do that is to get a ton of people vaccinated. So do it for yourself, do it for your family, and please, please do it for our community.

Debra Wakefield, Head Volunteer at the Fairgrounds Vaccine Clinic

Can’t make the weekly event at the fairgrounds? Call your local pharmacy for an appointment—at the time of this report, Walmart, Walgreens, and Rite Aid have vaccines and are taking appointments or walk-ins, depending, with most other pharmacies soon to have them.

Tribal members can call United Indian Health Services at (707) 465-2975 to make an appointment.

Let’s get back to normal—get vaccinated. For Redwood Voice,

All of us at Redwood Voice.