Lehigh Valley Health Network provided 1,000 vaccinations Wednesday at a drive-thru clinic at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom.

According to LVHN Chair of Medicine Tim Friel, MD, the drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination clinic offers community members a safe and efficient way to receive their vaccine. “Our goal with the masked drive-thru campaign is to create the safest possible way to have community members get their vaccine,” he says. “This is a great option because they stay in their cars and have limited contact with others.”

Friel says that LVHN is already planning more drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinics as vaccine supply increases. “Our goal is to deploy drive-thru clinics at several other sites through the multiple counties we serve in the weeks ahead,” he says.

LVHN plans to schedule more mass clinics as the vaccine becomes available. There will be another session in another month at Dorney for the same group that was vaccinated Wednesday for their second dose.

The health network plans clinics in Northampton and Monroe counties when vaccine supplies are available.

Even after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, LVHN reminds people to continue to wear a mask in public, wash hands frequently and stay socially distant until the majority of the community is vaccinated.

To sign up, register with My­LVHN.org. Everyone with a My­LVHN account is preregistered for a COVID-19 vaccine. You’ll receive a notification when you are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine and can schedule your vaccine appointment in MyLVHN. You do not need to be a current patient of LVHN, LVPG or Coordinated Health to open a MyLVHN account.