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Signs pointed the way to COVID vaccination clinics organized by Avera Marshall at its Bruce Street campus earlier this month. Local health providers have helped distribute hundreds of vaccine doses to area residents.
MARSHALL Â Area health care providers are continuing to distribute COVID-19 vaccine to essential workers and high-risk populations, as Minnesota passes the one-million mark for vaccine doses given.
While local vaccination efforts don’t make up a large portion of those total doses, hundreds of people in the six-county region have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, providers said.
The Minnesota Department of Health reported Friday that 1,016,210 vaccine doses have been administered. A total of 728,081 Minnesotans have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 286,543 had received both doses.
MARSHALL COVID-19 vaccine supplies may still be limited, but area providers are continuing to make headway on immunizing people in vulnerable populations.