MARINETTE, Wis. –– People in Marinette County interested in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine won’t have to drive as far to find it.

Prevea Health has opened its newest COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Marinette. The health system has partnered with Marinette County Public Health and UW-Green Bay to set the clinic up at a field house on the university’s Marinette campus.

“This is a true community clinic like the rest of the Prevea vaccine sites are, so there’s no restrictions,” says Prevea President and CEO Dr. Ashok Rai. “Anybody can come. As long as you meet the state eligibility for [the] vaccine, you can be vaccinated here.”

The center has two check-in stations, four private vaccination booths, a sixty four chair post vaccine waiting area where people will wait for 15 after their shot to make sure they don’t have adverse reactions to the dose.

There is a medical tent near the waiting area where people can receive treatment if the dose makes them ill.

“If somebody is feeling faint because they’re not comfortable with needles or whatnot, our navigators will be able to direct them into an adverse reaction room,” Rai says.

Rai says his hope is the site will administer 1,450 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine each week.

Gov. Tony Evers visited the site Monday saying that goal largely depends on the supply of vaccine coming into Wisconsin.

“It’s great to open places like this, and Prevea - because they’re a large and they’re a caring organization - can move supplies around with some ease, but at the end of the day we need massive amounts of vaccines more in order for us to do this more quickly,” Evers says.

He also says the state could experience a slight delay in vaccine deliveries by a couple days this week as a result of recent snow storms, which he says has temporarily disrupted the supply chain.

Prevea Health also runs community COVID-19 vaccination sites in Green Bay, Sheboygan, Oconto Falls, and Chippewa Falls.