Walz says Minnesota will significantly beat vaccine timeline
Minnesota will vaccinate 70% of seniors sooner than first thought, health officials say
Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm told the Senate Aging committee Wednesday she is highly confident that Minnesota will vaccinate 70% of seniors against COVID-19 before the end of the month, allowing a quicker expansion of eligibility.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Gov. Tim Walz says Minnesota will significantly beat his original timeline for vaccinating seniors as the first Johnson & Johnson doses arrived in the state.
Walz opened a box of 4,900 J&J doses at a Fairview facility in Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon, remarking that it was better than Christmas. The J&J supply which will be uneven in the coming weeks joins Pfizer and Moderna allocations and marks a turning point in the state s vaccination efforts.
Gov. Tim Walz says Minnesota will "significantly beat" his original timeline for vaccinating seniors as the first Johnson & Johnson doses arrived in the state.
Disability advocates are calling on state health officials to clarify vaccination guidance for live-in caregivers, who are often parents caring for children with disabilities.
Minnesota doctors are concerned Super Bowl Sunday could turn into "Super-Spreader Sunday" if Minnesotans decide to attend large watch parties over the weekend .
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Mayo Clinic in Rochester has entered the final stage of employee vaccination. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)
ROCHESTER, Minn. Mayo Clinic Rochester says it has embarked into a final category of health care workers permitted to receive the COVID-19 vaccine early.
When this group has been administered shots, Mayo will have offered the doses to more than 33,000 or 92% of its 39,000-person staff.
That leaves just 8% of the workforce for the state s largest private employer considered ineligible to receive vaccine early.
The figures come alongside news of favoritism within some large health care institutions across the country: Reports published over the weekend in The New York Times say that vaccine has been administered at academic hospitals to nonpatient-facing health care professionals, including researchers and administr