Montgomery County Council comes out swinging over Maryland vaccine program
By Melanie Alnwick and FOX 5 Digital Team
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Calls for equity as more COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Maryland
FOX 5 s Melanie Alnwick reports from Montgomery County where some local leaders are concerned about a racial divide when it comes to who is receiving COVID-19 vaccines.
ROCKVILLE, Md. (FOX 5 DC) - Montgomery County Council members took turns bashing the state COVID-19vaccine program at their meeting Tuesday - and saved special ire for Governor Larry Hogan and Acting Secretary of Health Dennis Schrader.
At issue is racial equity. Council members and county health officials believe the state’s method of priority distribution is better than what they call Maryland’s first-come, first-served system.
State Roundup: Maryland speeds up vaccination timeline, but for many health care workers, 2nd doses prove elusive
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STATE SPEEDS UP VACCINE TIMELINE BUT 2
nd DOSES ELUSIVE: Maryland is speeding up its vaccination timeline, following the lead of other states and recommendations from federal officials as the surge of deaths and hospitalizations in the U.S. associated with COVID-19 continues. As of Monday, hospitalized people with certain medical conditions placing them at greater risk of a severe COVID-19 case are eligible for vaccination, McKenna Oxenden and Hallie Miller report in the Sun.
Hospitals across the state are reporting difficulties in getting enough vaccines to provide second doses to health care workers in the highest priority categories, according to state officials. The news comes as federal officials in the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House COVID-19 Response Team advised states Monday to not withh
Chisholm blames the Hogan administration for vaccine rollout problems
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Maryland’s coronavirus vaccine distribution rollout has been less successful than that of many other states because the Hogan administration failed to implement a clear strategy and demonstrate concerted leadership, Del. Brian Chisholm said Monday.
Maryland is currently in Phase 1c of its vaccination plan, which covers residents ages 65-74 as well as some essential workers but several counties are not in that phase as of Monday.
A total of 544,369 doses have been administered in the state as of Monday morning, according to the Department of Health. But it is unclear how many people in the state have been vaccinated or if those include the required two vaccinations.
Maryland, Virginia To Send Extra COVID-19 Vaccine To D.C., Tripling Its Allotment
By Vanessa Romo
December 18, 2020
Virginia and Maryland are sending thousands of extra COVID-19 vaccine doses out of their own supply to the District of Columbia as the city scrambles to inoculate health care workers amid the worsening pandemic.
Each state is sending 8,000 additional doses to the nation’s capital. The move will more than triple the amount of the medicine that was allotted by the federal government.
Under the current distribution formula, which is based on residency, D.C. received 6,825 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine a figure Mayor Muriel Bowser said would cover less than a tenth of the city’s health care workers who are first in line to receive the vaccine.
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Originally published on December 18, 2020 9:18 pm
Virginia and Maryland are sending thousands of extra COVID-19 vaccine doses out of their own supply to the District of Columbia as the city scrambles to inoculate health care workers amid the worsening pandemic.
Each state is sending 8,000 additional doses to the nation s capital. The move will more than triple the amount of the medicine that was allotted by the federal government.
Under the current distribution formula, which is based on residency, D.C. received 6,825 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine a figure Mayor Muriel Bowser said would cover less than a tenth of the city s health care workers who are first in line to receive the vaccine.