 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. On Friday, February 3rd, Floyd County Health Department will be hosting a pediatric COVID and flu clinic. The clinic is for the six months to 18 years range and will be from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Vaccines are being given to fight the absentee rate in Floyd County schools. According to the Floyd County school system, the absenteeism is still going on due to sickness. Although some of the sickness is anecdotal information because a lot of people are testing for COVID at home, they reached out to Pam and the health department to see if we could do a vaccine clinic to help prevent illness. So we planned this event for Friday, February 3rd, and we did it from 3 to 6 p.m. That way parents have time to get off work and kids are in school and can bring them afterwards and get their vaccines. And we're focusing on school-age children and then the day cares and stuff too. So any kids from six months through 18 years old are eligible to come to the clinic. Ellis claims the six months to 18 years range is where COVID vaccination numbers are the lowest. With the amount of COVID cases rising again, Floyd County Health Department is trying to get the numbers under control. The younger population is our worst population with vaccination rates. For 5 to 11-year-olds, I think we're at 12%. We are trying to vaccinate to help prevent the severe illness of COVID-19. So it's been a rough year for Eastern Kentucky with the floods. So we asked what can we cap this amount of gift card for it. And that's the reason we chose Amazon so they could go where they wanted to and get what they needed. But yeah, just I would like it out there that we are going to offer a $50 gift card for any of the pediatric COVID-19 vaccines. Now it's not for flu, it's for COVID because we have a certain pot of money that that comes from. So we had to use it for COVID-19. Reporting for Mountaintop News, I'm Nick Collum.