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Linn County Public Health is offering free COVID-19 vaccinations from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays behind the Linn County Fair & Expo Center, 3700 Knox Butte Road E, Albany.

All three vaccines are available: Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer. Both first and second doses are available, as are Pfizer booster shots.

The patient must be six months past their last COVID-19 vaccine to receive the Pfizer booster. Moderna boosters are not yet available but should be soon, health officials said.

The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control have announced thei...