Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz also gave an update Tuesday regarding the county s Orange Zone status. Author: Kelly Dudzik Updated: 7:52 PM EST January 12, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. Erie County officials held a press conference Tuesday that primarily focused on the vaccine rollout and the lack of supply.
Appointments are now scheduled in Erie County through January 30. They ll be given out at three locations, and you ll find out where you need to go when you make your appointment. You can t just show up demanding the vaccine. You need an appointment.
People in Phase 1A aren t done yet getting their vaccines, and now we are in 1B and Erie County gets most of its vaccines from the New York State Department of Health. Right now, supplies are very limited. In fact, county officials said during the press conference that some appointments might have to be cancelled because there are only enough vaccines here in Erie County for the appointments for
By Aaron Besecker
News Staff Reporter
New York Stateâs rollout Monday of an online system billed as a way for residents to make appointments to receive the Covid-19 vaccine turned out to be disjointed and frustrating for many eager to sign up.
Even with warnings that inoculations would be weeks away, if not longer, users of the site found that it amounted to more of an online screening tool followed by a list of phone numbers for nearby vaccine distribution locations.
Once a person using the screening tool was found to be eligible for the vaccine, the site pointed users to nearby locations that will â at some point â have doses to distribute. From there, the next stop required a phone call placed to the distribution sites to actually schedule the appointment.
20,000 emails about COVID-19 vaccines between Erie County s top officials
With so many more people able to get the COVID-19 vaccine, there are many questions about how you can get one. We re working to get some answers.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â With New York State making COVID vaccines available to more people, so many of you are reaching out to us with questions. You re looking for answers about who is now eligible for a vaccine, where can you get one and how you register for an appointment.
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz tweeted, there is much more demand for a COVID19 vaccine than what Erie County has to distribute. Now, Erie County is working to get additional doses from New York State.
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz tweeted that Erie County will run out of it's vaccine allocation after Tuesday's clinics, but expects more to come soon.
Erie County Department of Health
Thursday s Erie County COVID-19 briefing reported distressing figures: the largest one-day total of positive cases since the pandemic began.
We heard from County Executive Mark Poloncarz that the county death toll is now 1,265, total cases are more than 45,032 and the daily positivity rate is 7.6%. He said Erie is starting to see the results of holiday parties. And it’s very distressing what we’re seeing, he said. Because for yesterday, Jan. 6, our Department of Health has identified 852 new cases that came in. This is the highest daily total ever for Erie County.
The hospitalization total didn’t rise much, but he said that reflects a mix of the people who were finally released and another group of people sick enough to need a hospital bed, perhaps an ICU bed.