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Linn County Public Health will resume large-scale COVID-19 vaccination clinics Tuesday, Jan. 4, at Albany's Linn County Expo Center, the county's Board of Commissioners agreed Tuesday, Dec. 21.

Both in-house and drive-through vaccination clinics have been held at the venue but transitioned to mobile vaccinations countywide several months ago.

With the recent Omicron variant, commissioners Roger Nyquist, Sherrie Sprenger and Will Tucker directed Public Health director Todd Noble and Expo Center manager Randy Porter to focus on dates and locations for large-scale clinics. By the end of the wo...