By Jared S. Hopkins and Peter Loftus Changes by the federal government to speed up Covid-19 vaccinations will increase doses available but might not help strapped health departments and hospitals give more shots more quickly, public health and hospital officials said. U.S. health officials said Tuesday that states should expand vaccine eligibility to people 65 years and older as well as those with pre-existing health conditions, a large group that most states didn t expect to inoculate for weeks. The U.S. will also stop holding back second doses, reversing the strategy since the rollout began last month. More doses could be helpful in bolstering supplies that have been limited so far, public-health experts and hospital officials said, but the changes might not achieve the goal of accelerating the pace of vaccinations.
The United States reached 10.2 million inoculations one day after the CDC and Trump administration gave new guidance to U.S. states on who should receive the shots first. Strict rules putting healthcare workers first in line had slowed the rollout. Now states are urged to vaccinate anyone over 65 as well.
Valley s largest physician group preparing to vaccinate senior citizens
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Fresno County is home to over 140,000 senior citizens over the age of 65.
California s Public Health Department announced an expansion of the vaccine rollout which now makes seniors eligible to get their first COVID-19 shot. Vaccinating the most vulnerable among us is the most important and efficient way of saving lives as fast as possible, says Sante s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Michael Synn.
Sante physicians see over 17,000 seniors in the Valley. They ll soon receive letters informing them the vaccine is available.
Dr. Synn expects doses to arrive this week.
720,000 CT residents could be added to next wave of COVID vaccines
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Front-line workers are vaccinated with the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on the first day of vaccinations in Norwich, Connecticut, on December 15, 2020.JOSEPH PREZIOSO / TNS
A key panel of experts on Gov. Ned Lamont’s Vaccine Advisory Group wants to add about 720,000 Connecticut residents to the list of people next in line for COVID-19 vaccinations.
The group on Tuesday recommended that people ages 65 and older and those of all ages with conditions that put them more at risk for COVID-19 should be included in the next round of vaccinations.
More than 10 million Americans had received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine as of Wednesday, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the year-old pandemic roared on unchecked.