Vaccine Clinic organizers monitoring severe weather threat (Source: WAVE 3 News) By Randi Hildreth | March 16, 2021 at 10:57 PM CDT - Updated March 16 at 10:57 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - As we monitor the severe weather threat across central Alabama, weâre keeping an eye on the impact on scheduled COVID vaccine clinics.
UAB leaders say the vaccine clinics set this week will remain open, but leaders are monitoring the weather closely and will provide updates once a final decision is made.
Jefferson County Health Department leaders say its 6th Avenue clinic is set to continue operations this week.
The Alabama Department of Public Health also says its monitoring weather, but as of now no reports of any closures or changes. Leaders say if they have to close a clinic, youâll be alerted the same way you were alerted when that winter weather shut down some operations in February.
As cases of COVID-19 start to go down, some communities are starting to lift mask mandates Author: Justina Coronel (KSDK) Updated: 7:43 PM CST March 10, 2021
LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. As cases of COVID-19 start to go down, some communities are starting to lift mask mandates.
That s the case in Lincoln County, where masks are no longer required.
The county issued the mask mandate in December but lifted it this week after the positivity rate went below 10 percent for two straight weeks.
Brett Siefert is the Lincoln County Health Department Administrator.
He says the mask mandates were one of the major factors resulting in numbers going down.
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Duke Pierson is the mayor of Ranson, a town in West Virginia s Eastern Panhandle.
West Virginia is proud of its nationally recognized vaccine rollout. But data show that effort has not been consistent across the state. Realizing the disparity, state officials responded by bumping up underserved counties’ vaccine allotments, sometimes six-fold. Now smaller health departments are responding to a sudden influx in doses.
West Virginia s acclaimed vaccine rollout is a team effort, with local health departments, pharmacies, and the National Guard pitching in.
Shepherd Snyder/ WVPB Gary Truitt, 73, and Teresa Truitt, 65, got their COVID-19 vaccine doses at the Ranson Civic Center in March.