Officials Warn That Vaccine May Not Be Available To General Public For Months 2 Photos
Amagansett Fire Department member Britton Bistrian receiving the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Southampton Hospital on Monday.
A new COVID testing center will be open daily at East Hampton Town Hall from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Amagansett Fire Department member Britton Bistrian receiving the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Southampton Hospital on Monday.
A new COVID testing center will be open daily at East Hampton Town Hall from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Michael Wright on Jan 5, 2021
New York State is administering the COVID-19 vaccine to a gradually widening segment of the population and making preparations for distributing it to the general population including launching a public web portal this week that allows residents to sign up for notifications about when they will be eligible to be vaccinated but distribution is still limited only to healthcare workers or EMS personnel and
WH task force: Give extra vaccine away to anyone who wants it
“If we have a big surge in cases and deaths after the December holidays and we don’t have the vaccine distribution plan back on course we’re in big trouble,” one senior administration official said.
As part of the conversations about how to quickly improve distribution, officials in task force meetings, in interagency phone calls and in a Camp David summit Tuesday suggested that states should distribute the vaccine doses that may soon expire to any individuals who want to get inoculated. These people would get the vaccine, even if they are not frontline healthcare workers, essential workers, over the age of 75 years old. There has been no formal decision to draft recommendations in this vein, officials said they are not against states pursuing this course of action and have transmitted to some local officials that they should embrace the idea. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and other top Operation
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January 6, 2021
Governor Larry Hogan announced a series of actions to accelerate the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in the State of Maryland.
“While the initial distribution of vaccines does offer a glimmer of hope, we still have a long way to go in this fight,” said Governor Hogan. “Distributing and administering vaccines throughout 2021 will be without question the greatest peacetime undertaking in American history, and will be a massive, all-hands-on-deck, ongoing operation between the federal, state, and local governments and the private sector. I want to assure the people of Maryland that we are going to leverage every resource to get more shots into more arms as quickly as we possibly can, in a safe and orderly way.”