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Small Businesses Host Vaccine Clinics
to Speed Up Shots
By LINDSAY CATES
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
As vaccine distribution has picked up speed, my restaurant, but other restaurants, and the
some small business owners have taken it community at large," Good told WJTV.
upon themselves to help get shots into the arms of Good says after seeing the challenges in reaching
community members. It’s a strategy likely to become widespread vaccine acceptance, he wondered if he
more widespread as attention moves away from mass could do something about it. Several months ago,
vaccination sites to harder-to-reach neighborhoods. he reached out to the state health department to ask
In Jackson, Mississippi, Jeff Good, co-owner of if he could hold a vaccine event at his restaurant to
Broad Street Baking Company and member of the help vaccinate employees and community members.
U.S. Chamber Small Business Council, partnered With help from the G.A. Carmichael Family
with the Mississippi State Department of Health Health Center, the partnership came together,
to set up a mobile vaccination station outside his and on April 28, 2021, the clinic was set up in the
restaurant in late April. Broad Street Baking Company parking lot and
"I know that the only way that we will return administered Moderna vaccines to employees,
to any sense of normalcy is for us to get to herd families, and the general public. Employees were
immunity. I want to do my part to be able to not required to take the vaccine, but the shots were
provide a platform, not only for the folks in available for those who wanted it.
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Small Businesses Host Vaccine Clinics
to Speed Up Shots
By LINDSAY CATES
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
As vaccine distribution has picked up speed, my restaurant, but other restaurants, and the
some small business owners have taken it community at large," Good told WJTV.
upon themselves to help get shots into the arms of Good says after seeing the challenges in reaching
community members. It’s a strategy likely to become widespread vaccine acceptance, he wondered if he
more widespread as attention moves away from mass could do something about it. Several months ago,
vaccination sites to harder-to-reach neighborhoods. he reached out to the state health department to ask
In Jackson, Mississippi, Jeff Good, co-owner of if he could hold a vaccine event at his restaurant to
Broad Street Baking Company and member of the help vaccinate employees and community members.
U.S. Chamber Small Business Council, partnered With help from the G.A. Carmichael Family
with the Mississippi State Department of Health Health Center, the partnership came together,
to set up a mobile vaccination station outside his and on April 28, 2021, the clinic was set up in the
restaurant in late April. Broad Street Baking Company parking lot and
"I know that the only way that we will return administered Moderna vaccines to employees,
to any sense of normalcy is for us to get to herd families, and the general public. Employees were
immunity. I want to do my part to be able to not required to take the vaccine, but the shots were
provide a platform, not only for the folks in available for those who wanted it.
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