Impact unknown but Erie County executive remains hopeful. In the meantime, Erie County has had to cancel more COVID vaccination clinics due to supply problems
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Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz told his COVID briefing Tuesday he may have to cancel vaccination clinics set for Thursday and Friday because expected vaccine hasn’t shown up yet.
Three days of clinics have already been cancelled this week. County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein said this vaccine shortage means the number of people who get vaccinated remains small. Phase 1-A and Phase 1-B, we will not be able to make appointments and no facility will be able to make appointments for people who do not meet those criteria, Burstein said. So we know that there are other agencies in our community that are offering vaccine right now and we know that pharmacies are up and running and they are vaccinating people who are 65 and older and they are only immunizing people that are 65 and older.