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Subscriber only Ahead of next week s North Coast COVID-19 vaccine rollout to residents of aged care facilities, health authorities are also working with local general practices to prepare for future stages of the rollout. It is understood aged care facilities at Alstonville and Ballina will be among the first to roll up their sleeves and get the jab - although the names of which facilities has not yet been revealed. While the Australian COVID-19 vaccination program is starting next week, with the first supply of vaccines being distributed as part of Phase 1a, it will be months before everyone in our region will access vaccines.
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Tens of thousands of aged care residents in Australia will soon receive their first vaccine dose against COVID-19 next week. The Australian Government is.
The Daily Yonder Rural Providers Get Creative With Vaccine Delivery but Suffer from Lack of Supply Self-contained mobile clinics, vaccination vans, and even seaplanes are part of the plans. But providers are waiting on more vaccines.
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The “Aardvark” Mobile Health system for providing Covid-19 testing and vaccination services in its mobile form. (Photo: Jordan Woolley / Primary Health Primary Health Network)
From Pennsylvania to Alaska, healthcare workers are getting creative with ways to put shots into arms.
But lack of vaccine supply is a major hurdle for putting their plans into action.
Dr. George Garrow, the chief medical officer for Primary Health Network, says he’s ready to take the vaccine to the people to ensure they get it.
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Caroline McNamara, RN, ICU, from UPMC Williamsport receives the COVID-10 vaccine.
WILLIAMSPORT– Although vaccinations continue to roll out at a good pace, local health care officials say the process would go faster if not for a lack of trust and too few resources getting COVID vaccines into arms.
Eagerness and trust in science is low in the rural areas of the state with 25 percent of Williamsport residents and 30 percent of Lock Haven residents not willing to learn about or receive the vaccine, UPMC Susquehanna region president and CEO Steve Johnson said at a virtual meeting Wednesday morning.
And the 70 to 75 percent who are eager and have the willingness to gather resources and trust in the science of both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccinations are a majority of those in those brackets of vulnerability –ages 65 or over, with pre-existing conditions or both, Johnson continued.