Oregon is once against scrambling its priority list for COVID-19 vaccinations, with some seniorsâ priority pushed from next weekend to March.
Gov. Kate Brown and health authorities blamed the whipsawing schedule this week on unreliable numbers and statements from the Trump administration as it wraps up its final days in office.
âThis is a deception on a national scale,â Brown said on Friday, Jan. 15.
Brown announced just a few days earlier that the vaccine would be opened up to those 65 and older beginning Saturday, Jan. 23. Educators and child care providers would also start receiving inoculations that day.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Jan. 12 that it would expand the distribution of vaccine it was holding, creating a possible windfall for states that were worried about scarcity in coming weeks. Federal officials also recommended opening up vaccine availability to those over 65 once the first group of health workers and people in long-te
Fauci gets his second coronavirus shot
From CNN s Maggie Fox
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks at the National Institutes of Health on December 22, 2020, in Bethesda, Maryland. Patrick Semansky/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
Dr. Anthony Fauci got his second dose of coronavirus vaccine Tuesday.
“Got it. So far, so good,” he told CNN.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, helped lead the development and testing of the Moderna vaccine. He got his first dose of the vaccine on Dec. 22. Moderna’s vaccine is supposed to be given as two doses, four weeks apart.