Just last week, Trumbull County Commissioners announced a new drive thru mass vaccination clinic to get shots into thousands of arms quickly.

But now, after County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins issued an updated legal opinion saying they need to conduct a bidding process for the construction, immediately the plans were placed on hold.

In the meantime, the health department will rely more than ever on the use of pop up clinics to bring the shots directly to the people.

"To date, we've conducted close to 15 pop up clinics throughout the county," said Jack Simon, Member of the Trumbull County Board of Health. "And we'll continue to do that and we'll continue our vaccinations out of the fairgrounds," he said.

The bidding process for the drive thru clinic will take time, which would defeat the purpose of creating a facility quickly as more vaccines become available.

"There's a lot of variables because at the end of the day, nobody knows exactly how long any sort of immunization lasts," said Mauro Cantalamessa, Trumbull County Commissioner. "Nobody knows you know, if we're gonna have to go through this process again next year, I think it's always a potential to look at either down the road this year or into next year," he said.

As the opinion of the prosecutor had a major effect on the process of the vaccination clinic, Trumbull County Commissioner Niki Frenchko tells 21 News there are other ways to get more people in the county vaccinated.

"We have senior centers, we have community centers, we have churches," said Frenchko. "A lot of places that are willing to volunteer their spaces in order to help people get their vaccines," she said.