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RITZVILLE – Local residents on a waiting list for the COVID-19 vaccination received telephone calls to come and get the shot when an over shipment of the Pfizer vaccine resulted in a spontaneous clinic set up at Hometown Family Medicine Wednesday, Feb. 10.

"Whitman County got about twice the amount they requested, so Dr. Sackmann's office is doing a 200-person clinic with the Pfizer vaccine," Adams County Health Department spokesperson Karen Potts said. "Whitman County was planning some mass clinics, but they can only use so much, so they were looking for help in using it, to ensure nothi...