ITHACA, NY Following historic development, research, and vetting processes, a vaccine is available for COVID-19 and has begun to be distributed to healthcare professionals in Tompkins County. The Health
ASHLAND â The first COVID-19 vaccines were administered in Ashland last week to first responders.
Ashland Pharmacy administered the vaccine to members of the Ashland fire and rescue departments as well as pharmacy staff on Dec. 23, according Staci Hubert, Ashland Pharmacy owner and pharmacist.
Hubert said the pharmacy was chosen to administer the vaccine in Ashland because they have been doing flu immunizations there for many years, and they are also doing COVID-19 testing. Three Rivers Public Health Department assigned Ashland Pharmacy to administer the vaccinations.
âWeâre happy to be able to be one of the first line pharmacies,â she added.
At noon Wednesday, Dr. Christopher Urbina, medical officer of the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment, will hold a virtual roundtable discussion with local physicians concerning the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“He is explaining the vaccine, answering questions, and explaining the process of how they will receive it,” PDPHE spokesperson Sarah Joseph said. “He is requesting physicians’ offices to sign up with the Health Department providing an email and a phone number of one person in the office who will be a point of contact.”
The information requested includes how many health care workers they have in their practice, as well as how many business office workers are present.
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Vaccines have been shipped to nearly 400 medical and health-care locations and more than 50 vaccination clinics are expected to be operating at long-term care facilities this week. Clinics will continue to be launched on a rolling basis to distribute about 219,000 more doses of the vaccine to long-term care facilities over the next month. Gov. Charlie Baker said this is a sign of brighter days ahead after one of the state s worst years but cautioned residents should not let their guard down. After Thanksgiving, we saw a sharp increase in both new cases in hospitalizations. These numbers continue to increase and are putting significant strain on our health care system, the governor said at Wednesday s pandemic briefing. As we hit the final stretch of this holiday season, we re obviously closely monitoring all the public health data to ensure that our health-care system has the capacity to take care of COVID and COVID patients who need hospital level care.