MU Health plans to vaccinate 1k people per day by early February
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
University of Missouri Health Care will try to administer 1,000 coronavirus vaccination shots per day at its mass clinic in Columbia by early next month.
The goal is among the information that will be presented to a MU Board of Curators committee by Dr. Richard Barohn, MU s executive vice chancellor for health affairs. The open meeting begins at 1 p.m.
The plan includes using Faurot Field as a centralized vaccination site for Columbia. The site opened on Monday in the Walsworth Columns Club at Faurot Field. So far MU Health has vaccinated medical students and others who have direct contact with patients.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
Several health leaders in Mid-Missouri reporting large numbers of requests to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as the state expands who can get it.
During the Cole County Health Department Press Briefing Thursday, major healthcare providers urged citizens to be patient, as more and more calls come in. Many of the offices right now are being inundated with calls and calls back, and multiple things back and forth, Dr. Randall Haight with Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City said.
Several health providers in Cole County have started administering the vaccine to people in the next phase of the state s distribution plan, largely widening the net of those eligible.
Boone County law enforcement begins getting COVID-19 vaccine
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Employees of the Columbia Police Department and Boone County Sheriff s Department have been getting the first in the series of COVID-19 vaccine this week.
The Columbia/Boone County Health Department and Boone Hospital Center are helping to vaccinate local law enforcement.
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Boone Hospital Center Dr. Robin Blount said the hospital has already seen officials from around the county come to get vaccinated. I know we ve had sheriff s deputies through here, corrections officers. We ve reached out to the police departments in Hallsville and Ashland and Centralia and have had some of them respond and come get vaccinated, she said.
Planning underway for public rollout of coronavirus vaccinations in Boone County
The health department s community health manager explains how a vaccine site is organized.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The coronavirus pandemic is not the first time Mid-Missouri health officials have had to prepare for mass vaccinations.
In 2009, the Columbia/Boone County Health Department created a vaccination plan for the H1N1 pandemic. In 2016, the county modeled similar plans to combat the mumps outbreak at the University of Missouri.
These plans, along with one being drafted for vaccinations against COVID-19, are modeled after the county health department’s Mass Prophylaxis Plan.
The vaccination plans outline “points of dispensing,” or PODs, that would be set up across Boone County. Small, closed PODs have already been rolled out for the COVID-19 pandemic; these are located at places such as businesses in order to get vaccinations to a set group.
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