Over 25% of Olmsted County residents have gotten a COVID shot
Over 20% have received both doses of vaccine.
Posted: Mar 3, 2021 12:42 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Over a quarter of Olmsted County residents have gotten at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Olmsted County Public Health Services (OCPHS) says as of Tuesday, 27.9% of the county’s population has received at least one coronavirus shot and 20.2% have gotten both. That makes Olmsted County of the top five counties in Minnesota with the highest vaccination percentage.
As of last Friday, OCPHS says 79.4% of school employees in the county have been offered their first dose of COVID vaccine and predicts all Rochester Public Schools employees will have been offered their first shot by the end this Friday.
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ALBANY Nearly a quarter of the New Yorkers eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in this phase of the campaign have received the first dose of the two-shot vaccination.
The total Monday morning stood at 2.23 million first doses and 1.32 million second doses. Roughly 10 million New Yorkers are eligible because of age, ailment or occupation.
The percentage of vaccinated residents varies greatly from one county to the next, though. This can be due to unique local factors; that and erratic supply of vaccine from the state and federal governments; an overwhelmed appointment-scheduling system; and a network of vaccination sites that is huge but inadequately supplied and not evenly located.
Registration links shared with those not in priority groups.
Posted: Feb 8, 2021 5:49 PM
Updated: Feb 8, 2021 7:01 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Olmsted County residents are being asked to wait their turn for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Olmsted County Public Health Services (OCPHS) says it has discovered that registration links for local vaccination clinics that were sent to specific local businesses, for their identified employees, have been shared with others who are not currently in these prioritized groups and not eligible to receive the vaccine right now.
“We know vaccination is important to many in our community, but we ask the community to be patient and wait for notification from your employer, health care system, or Public Health,” says Olmsted County COVID-19 Operations Chief Dan Jensen. “Unfortunately, those who registered but were not specifically invited to these vaccination events will receive a cancelation. This is necessary to ensure that appoi
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