There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
COVID-19 vaccines are now being distributed. Now, more than ever, all of us, our families, and our communities need to stay informed about what the vaccine is, when we can get it and where we need to go to recieve it.
Here’s what you need to know:
- We still need to wear a mask
We still need to social distance
- The COVID-19 vaccine is safe
The COVID-19 vaccine is being distributed in phases
Find your county below to find vaccination sites and information about phases.
Bristol Health Department
Address: 205 Piedmont Ave, Bristol, VA 24201
Phone: (276) 642-7335
Hours: M-F 8 am – 4:30pm
Other:
- Food City- Please call 276-645-0044 (Euclid Avenue) or 276-669-2388 (Bonham Road) to schedule an appointment
- Food City – Please call 276-238-0684 to schedule an appointment
- Galax Health Department – Please call 276-236-6127 to schedule an appointment
Buchanan County Health Department
Address: 1051 Rosebud Rd, Grundy, VA 24614
Phone: (276) 935-4591
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Other:
- Food City Grundy- Please call 276-935-7578 to schedule an appointment.
Carter County Health Department
Address: 403 E G St, Elizabethton, TN 37643
Phone: (423) 543-2521
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Dickenson County Health Department
Address: 334 Brush Creek Rd, Clintwood, VA 24228
Phone: (276) 926-4979
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Other:
- Food City Clintwood- Please call 276-926-4747 to schedule an appointment.
- Twin County Regional Hospital –Signage will direct cars to the proper area. These will not be scheduled appointments, but instead will be walk-in.
- Ballad Health – Ballad Health Medical Associates patients should call their physician’s office directly. This can be a Ballad Health primary care office, specialty clinic, or urgent care center.
- Food City – Please call 276-773-2751 to schedule an appointment
- Grayson County Health Department – Please call 276-773-2961 to schedule an appointment
Greene County Department of Health
Address: 810 W Church St, Greeneville, TN 37745
Phone: (423) 798-1749
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Hancock County Department of Health
Address: 178 Willow St, Sneedville, TN 37869
Phone: (423) 733-2228
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Hawkins County Health Department
Address: 247 Silver Lake Rd, Church Hill, TN 37642
Phone: (423) 357-5341
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Johnson County Health Department
Address: 715 W Main St, Mountain City, TN 37683
Phone: (423) 727-9731
Hours: M-F 9am – 4:30pm
Lee County Health Department
Address: 134 Hill St, Jonesville, VA 24263
Phone: (276) 346-2014
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Other:
- Food City Pennington Gap- Please call 276-546-4186 to schedule an appointment.
Russell County Health Department
Address: 75 Rogers Ave # Ll, Lebanon, VA 24266
Phone: (276) 889-7621
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Other:
- Food City Lebanon- Please call 276-889-5914 to schedule an appointment.
- Food City Claypool Hill- Please call 276-963-4558 to schedule an appointment.
Scott County Health Department
Address: 190 Beech St #102, Gate City, VA 24251
Phone: (276) 386-1312
Hours: M-F 8am – 5pm
Other:
- Food City Weber City- Please call 276-386-7886 to schedule an appointment.
Smyth County Health Department
Address: 201 Francis Marion Ln, Marion, VA 24354
Phone: (276) 781-7460
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Other:
- Food City – Please call 276-783-5761 to schedule an appointment
Sullivan County Regional Health Department
Address: 1041 E Sullivan St, Kingsport, TN 37660
Phone: (423) 279-2777
Hours: M-F 8am – 6pm
Bristol Motor Speedway Dragway
Address: Bristol Motor Speedway, 151 Speedway Blvd, Bristol, TN 37620
Phone: (866) 415-4158
Kingsport Civic Auditorium
Address: 1550 Fort Henry Dr, Kingsport, TN 37664
Phone: (423) 229-9457
Tazewell County Health Department
Address: 253 Chamber Dr, Tazewell, VA 24651
Phone: (276) 988-5585
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Other:
- Food City Bluefield- Please call 276-322-2515 to schedule an appointment.
Unicoi County Health Department
Address: 101 Okolona Dr, Erwin, TN 37650
Phone: (423) 743-9103
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Washington County (TN) Health Department
Address: 219 Princeton Rd, Johnson City, TN 37601
Phone: (423) 975-2200
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Washington County (VA) Health Department
Address: 15068 Lee Hwy. # 200, Bristol, VA 24202
Phone: (276) 676-5604
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Other:
- Food City – Please call 276-628-2580 to schedule an appointment
- Michael’s Pharmacy – Please call 276-676-2900 to schedule an appointment
- Falcon Pharmacy – Please call 276-258-5251 to schedule an appointment
- Pharmhealth Express Pharmacy & Wellness – Please call 276-739-7748, ext. 4 to schedule an appointment
Wise County Health Department
Address: 134 Roberts Ave SW, Wise, VA 24293
Phone: (276) 328-8000
Hours: M-F 8am – 4:30pm
Other:
- Ballad Health will be opening two community vaccination centers – one in Abingdon, Va., and one in Norton, Va. – where they will provide the vaccine to established patients of Ballad Health Medical Associates clinics who are over the age of 75.
- Food City Wise- Please call 276-328-4619 to schedule an appointment.
- Food City Big Stone Gap- Please call 276-523-1631 to schedule an appointment.
Sites:
- Wythe County Community Hospital – Please call 276-625-8829 to schedule an appointment
- Wythe County Health Department – Please call 276-228-5507 to schedule an appointment
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes! These vaccines have already been given to tens of thousands of volunteers and have been shown to be safe and very good at preventing them from getting sick with COVID-19. The safety of COVID-19 vaccines is a top priority. The vaccine will continue to be monitored to make sure any rare problems are found as soon as possible and evaluated to see if they were caused by the vaccine. Very rarely, allergic reactions have been reported in persons receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. While these reports are being studied to find out if they were from the vaccine, CDC recommends anyone who has ever had a severe allergic reaction after getting a vaccine in the past to be observed for 30 minutes after vaccine administration. People with allergies to foods, animals or pill medicines have not been shown to have any bad reaction from the vaccine.
Each state handles vaccine distribution differently. There are different phases.
For TN: You can read this plan and find more information about COVID-19 vaccines here, and check your eligibility for vaccination through Tennessee’s vaccine eligibility tool.
For VA: Visit the site for more information of phases here. Visit this site to see which phase you are eligible for.
As vaccine availability increases, vaccination recommendations will expand to include more groups
The goal is for everyone to be able to easily get a COVID-19 vaccination as soon as large enough quantities of vaccine are available.
The COVID-19 vaccine will greatly reduce your chances of getting COVID-19 and will ensure that if you do get the virus, you will have only mild symptoms or none at all.
We don’t know yet why some healthy people become seriously ill or die from COVID-19, while other people with COVID-19 only become mildly sick. There’s no way to know how COVID-19 will affect you. Once vaccinated, your body will build immunity to the virus so you are less likely to get sick.
Experts continue to conduct more studies about the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on severity of illness from COVID-19, as well as its ability to keep people from spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.
Yes. Due to the severe health risks associated with COVID-19 and the fact that re-infection with COVID-19 is possible, vaccine should be offered to you regardless of whether you already had COVID-19 infection.
At this time, experts do not know how long someone is protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19. The immunity someone gains from having an infection, called natural immunity, varies from person to person. Some early evidence suggests natural immunity may not last very long.
We won’t know how long immunity produced by vaccination lasts until we have more data on how well the vaccines work.
Both natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity are important aspects of COVID-19 that experts are trying to learn more about, and CDC will keep the public informed as new evidence becomes available.
No. None of the authorized and recommended COVID-19 vaccines or COVID-19 vaccines currently in development in the United States contain the live virus that causes COVID-19. This means that a COVID-19 vaccine cannot make you sick with COVID-19.
There are several different types of vaccines in development. All of them teach our immune systems how to recognize and fight the virus that causes COVID-19. Sometimes this process can cause symptoms, such as fever. These symptoms are normal and are a sign that the body is building protection against the virus that causes COVID-19. Learn more about how COVID-19 vaccines work.
It typically takes a few weeks for you body to build immunity (protection against the virus that causes COVID-19) after vaccination. That means it’s possible you could be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 just before or just after vaccination and still get sick. This is because the vaccine has not had enough time to provide protection.
No. It will still be important to continue to follow public health recommendations to protect yourself and others. This includes wearing a mask, staying at least 6 feet away from others, avoiding crowds, and washing hands often.