Instead of Playing Blockbusters, This Movie Theater Reopened as COVID-19 Vaccine Site

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Stone Theatres, a movie theater in North Carolina, has been closed for months. It reopened this week as a coronavirus vaccine site, which given the local hospital space to vaccinate over 1,300 people a day instead of a few hundred

, a small cinema chain with venues in North Carolina and South Carolina, has been empty for months after theater operator Dale Coleman made the difficult decision to stay closed due to the lack of new movies to show.

“This allowed us to go from administering a few hundred vaccines a day to about 1,300 a day,” Fisher says. North Carolina heath officials plan to administer 30,000 at The Pointe 14 theater alone due to the expansive area.Inside, there are 12 stations set up throughout the lobby. After getting the vaccine, people enter the auditoriums to wait and make certain they aren’t having adverse reactions.

“This is something where we can be part of the solution,” Coleman says. “We are thrilled and very proud we can donate our theater and participate in something that we think is extremely important, not just for our business but the community in general.”

 

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Do this at the big AMC in Burbank

I'm proud to say I live in the city where this is happening. Good job

Why’d you delete it, bronzebarbarian! I went back to do a “you’re stealing my bit” on your tweet and it was gone!

CovidVaccines and a movie? Nice.

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