For months, supply has been so limited that states were restricting access to specific priority groups, and many people who wanted a shot couldn t get one. But now every person over the age of 16 is eligible, and more than half the country s adult population has received at least one dose.
The nation is fast approaching the tipping point of vaccinations, where supply will outstrip demand. State and federal officials are going to need to find the best message and best method to get shots to the people who are either hesitant, unable or just indifferent.
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Doing so will require a change in tactics, likely in how vaccines are distributed to states and how states allocate their doses to get the shots into as many people as possible.
Henderson County has reported 59 new cases this week.
An earlier death of a Henderson County resident was attributed to COVID after a state audit of death certificates, raising the total to 76 in the county. A previously reported death of an Ohio County resident was determined not to be COVID-related.
Despite the spike in cases, Henderson County dropped from the red or critical level to the orange or accelerated level on the state s incidence rate map on Thursday. The incidence rate, which measures the average daily cases per 100,000 population over the past seven days, dropped to 17.7 as of Thursday afternoon in the county. Webster County and Union County remained in the yellow or community spread level with incidence rates of 9.9 and 6.0, respectively.
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