With the pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine lifted, Kentucky health providers can resume using the vaccine. And the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department is very happy about that.
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The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department reported three new deaths Monday, raising the city s total to 302 since the pandemic hit in March 2020.
Current health department data show half of all reported cases in Lexington now fall between ages 20 to 44, a trend that officials say both shows the effectiveness of vaccines in the state s older population but also drives home the need for younger Kentuckians to get the shot.
Lexington continues to be among the highest ranking counties in the state for vaccinations, with 46 percent of adults having received at least one shot and 37 percent fully vaccinated.
The city s rolling seven-day average of new cases is over 37, up slightly from around 31 earlier this month.
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Phyllis Gibbs wasn’t sure until recently that she’d be here, just a few moments away from receiving a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
“Do you feel sick today?”
Gibbs then walked over to one of the nurses inside the Kentucky Dam Village Convention Center in rural western Kentucky a place that once held a pre-pandemic political rally for statewide Democrats that has now been transformed into a regional vaccination site designed to dole out hundreds of Pfizer vaccines a day.
And Pfizer was the only vaccine Gibbs would get. She wouldn’t get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because it was “paused” on April 13, and she’s heard bad stories about the side effects from the second Moderna vaccine dose. She said some of her family is totally against the vaccines “they’re kind of hard-headed,” she laughs and some in her part of conservative Ballard County trust “homeopathic” treatments rather than tr
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But while those numbers are small, many of the people the vaccine has been targeted at are vulnerable: homeless people in Baltimore, homebound residents in the District of Columbia, the poor and uninsured in Massachusetts, rural residents in a number of states. All are populations easier to reach with a single dose than the two-dose regimen of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
About 10 million doses shipped to the states are now on shelves awaiting a decision. And many people who might not seek out a shot but could have been reached with mobile clinics and concerted outreach may be left behind, at least for now.