Vaccination Line Reaches Capacity at 6 A.M. on Wednesday

The Hamilton County Health Department announced early Wednesday morning that the line to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at the Chattanooga State site has reached its capacity and closed for the day at 6 a.m.

According to the health department, all doses have been allotted to those in line, which has reached the intersection of Amnicola Highway and the Power Exchange Center at Lake Junior.

More opportunities will open up soon as new vaccine shipments arrive. For more information call the hotline at 423-209-8383 or visit the website: http://health.hamiltontn.org/AllServices/Coronavirus(COVID-19)/Vaccine.aspx

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.