Correction: February 6, 2021 This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misstated how many states are using Tiffany Tate's vaccination tracking software, based on incorrect information from Ms. Tate. It is 27 states and jurisdictions, not 28 states. Correction: February 6, 2021 This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article.
You may want the COVID-19 vaccine, but chances are you haven’t been able to get it. Pretty soon though, there could be an oversupply of the potentially.
States That Have Found the Secret to COVID Vaccine Success
“We vaccinated people on snow machines, on four wheelers, in trucks, in airplanes, standing on tarmacs in -20 windchill, in clinics, in houses basically anywhere we could to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible.” by Elaine S. Povich, Stateline.org / February 4, 2021 A group of Alaska health care workers prepare to board a plane that delivers COVID-19 vaccines to remote areas of the state. Small states with centralized health care apparatuses are getting the vaccine into arms more efficiently than states with larger populations. (Yukon Kuskokwim/(Alaska) Health Corporation/TNS)
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The week before Christmas, hundreds of medical residents at Stanford University Hospital joined an emergency Zoom call. They had been brought together by shared outrage at their administration’s allocation plans for its first 5,000 doses of the newly authorized vaccine for Covid-19, the pandemic that had defined their past year. Only seven of those shots were reserved for residents, the lowest-ranking physicians, even though they’re more often exposed to patients infected with the coronavirus than other employees whose work had been almost entirely remote. But some of those employees including hospital executives and dermatologists who’d only seen patients virtually were nonethele
Alaska’s Herculean vaccine distribution effort this month evokes the historic “serum run” nearly 100 years ago that saved the town of Nome from a diphtheria epidemic and inspired the Iditarod sled dog race.
But this year, instead of driving dog sleds, the state used planes, amphibious vehicles and snowmobiles to make Alaska one of the most successful states so far at getting the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of its residents. Mountainous terrain and wintry weather further complicated the effort.
“On my first airplane trip, the vaccine froze in the metal part of the needle when I was vaccinating on the tarmac and I had to keep it warm by tucking it between my coat and my shirt until right before we gave the vaccine,” said Dr. Ellen Hodges, Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation chief of staff, in an email.