W.Va. expects more vaccine doses next week
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) West Virginia will receive more doses of coronavirus vaccines next week, Gov. Jim Justice said Wednesday, as the number of active cases statewide continues to decline.
The Republican governor said at a news conference that in addition to the doses that have been promised for next week, an additional 3,700 doses of the Moderna vaccine will be sent to the state.
The state is holding 25 vaccination clinics across 17 counties this week specifically for residents aged 65 and older. Over 87,500 doses have been administered to senior citizens so far.
Jan 27, 2021
PHILADELPHIA The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Region 3 has obligated more than $227 million to the state agencies in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia for costs related to the COVID-19 vaccine mission.
The awards, totaling $227,429,975, provide federal funding to the states and the District of Columbia to reimburse costs associated with emergency protective measures taken to store, handle, transport, distribute and administer vaccines to reduce the spread the of the virus.
Here’s a closer look at each award: Pennsylvania: $1,622,908
This award provides federal funding to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to establish sites throughout the commonwealth to distribute and administer COVID-19 vaccines to its population. Quantities reflect the estimated administration of 500 vaccines per day per site, for two weeks, with an estimated start date of Jan. 25, 2021
HUNTINGTON â More than 600 veterans were given the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine this past weekend at the Hershel âWoodyâ Williams Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Huntington.
Five hundred extra doses of the vaccine became available Friday within the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) of which, the VA medical center is a part.
âOur staff went to work immediately,â said Brian Nimmo, medical center director, in a release. âThey called veterans to get them scheduled, got staff coverage lined up, cover other areas of the medical center, etc. It was a very big event that needed a lot of flexibility, coordination, and determination in a short amount of time.â
By Melanie Arter | January 18, 2021 | 2:11pm EST
First Lady Melania Trump and West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (L) attend a roundtable discussion on the opioid epidemic with local and state officials at the Cabell-Huntington Health Department in Huntington, West Virginia, July 8, 2019. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – West Virginia’s COVID vaccination program is so successful that vaccine disbursement is at 98.1 percent – either “in people’s arms or with names tied to it,” West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Sunday.
“For the last week or so, we ve been running not at 70 percent. We re running it right at 100 percent. Right now, we re at 98.1 percent, as far as vaccines in people s arms or names tied to it, you know, that are going to be put into people s arms immediately. We re saving all kinds of lives. We re putting our kids back in school,” he told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”