Coronavirus vaccinations have begun rolling out to the Marylanders who need them the most.
Two of the coronavirus vaccines approved for use one made by Pfizer and the other by Moderna require two doses, with the second dose due a couple of weeks after the first. The third, developed by Johnson & Johnson, requires just one dose.
Maryland is rolling out the vaccine in phases. On Tuesday, Maryland enters Phase 2A, meaning all Marylanders 60 and older can get the vaccine, in addition to those who remain eligible under Phase 1, including health workers, teachers, postal workers, grocery store employees and first responders.
Print Jayne Miller, WBAL-TV 11
The number of COVID-19 vaccinations administered in Maryland is increasing by the day, but supply remains critically short and the racial gap isn t closing.
The rate of COVID-19 vaccinations continues at a tedious pace, so slow that one Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health expert said Thursday it s not yet possible to see a difference in the course of the pandemic. The rollout of these two very efficacious products have been halting and slow and challenging, and it has been too slow to have these vaccines at least up until now have an impact on protecting the American people from the pandemic, said Dr. Chris Beyrer, Desmond M. Tutu professor of public health and human rights.
Maryland health officials on Monday opened COVID-19 vaccination appointment eligibility to adults 65 and older, and to some categories of essential workers, despite a dearth of vaccine supply.
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