Vaccinations bring images to mind of elementary students visiting a doctor prior to school opening.

The tables switched on Friday. Ada school teachers and staff members had their turn receiving vaccines. They received their first of two doses of the Moderna covid-19 vaccine.

Ohio Northern University HealthWise Pharmacy staff members vaccinated nearly 85 adults in the three-hour clinic, which delayed the start of school until 10:35 a.m.

Meri Skilliter, Ada superintendent, said that the school appreciates its relationship with the ONU pharmacy program and thanked them for setting up and administering the clinic.

For Michael Rush,  director of the ONU HealthWise Pharmacy, the event brought back memories of school in Ada. The 1999 Ada HS grad and 2005 ONU grad said he was in Kindergarten when the ’86 gym was constructed.

Certainly, he never thought one day he’d be part of one of the most important event to take place in that large purple room.

Six ONU faculty members and 12 fourth and fifth year pharmacy students, each trained in immunization, administered the vaccines.

The clinic took about 20 minutes from start to finish for each participant. Following a sign-in and vaccination, teachers and staff had a 15-minute wait before they were excused.

According to Karen Kier, ONU professor of clinical pharmacy, each person vaccinated received one-half milliliter of the vaccine.

Her role in the clinic was placing vaccine doses in vials. Ten doses are in each vial.

Everyone vaccinated on Feb. 26 will get a second dose on March 26.