AJ TaylorDecember 29, 2020Last Updated: December 29, 2020
The vaccination process has already begun in Wright County according to Sandy McGrath, Wright County Health Department Administrator
“I am confident in the COVID-19 vaccine, in order to demonstrate the safety and encourage future recipients, I received the first COVID immunization in the county and feel it is crucial that we move forward with vaccinating our very important front line workers.”
Nurses, doctors, EMS, and other healthcare workers will have first priority, in coming weeks, to receive the vaccine. The Wright County Health Department is allotted limited amounts of the vaccine each week. With each amount received they will work through the first priority groups. This week’s allocation will begin with frontline healthcare workers through Iowa Specialty Hospitals, Unity Point Clinic in Eagle Grove, EMS, and other personal healthcare providers.
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Show Transcript NSYNC I THINK WRIGHT COUNTY RIGHT NOW IS READY. CHRIS: WRIGHT COUNTY NURSE SANDY MCGRATH SAYS THE PLANS ARE ALL IN PLACE TO GET COVID-19 VACCINES OUT TO HER RURAL COUNTY’S COMMUNITIES. WE IN WRIGHT COUNTY WILL GET 200 DOSES. CHRIS: THOSE WILL BE FROM THE NOT-YET-APPROVED MODERNA VACCINE. THE COUNTY DOESN’T HAVE THE SPECIAL FREEZERS TO STORE THE ALREADY-APPROVED PFIZER VACCINE. HEALTH CARE WORKERS WILL BE FIRST. BUT ONCE THE PUBLIC CAN GET IT, MCGRATH AND OTHER RURAL IOWA HEALTH CARE OFFICIALS FACE A CHALLENGE THEIR URBAN COUNTERPARTS DON’T. GETTING THE VACCINES TO SMALL, SPREAD-OUT TOWNS. MCGRATH SAYS THE PLAN IS TO HAVE SITES IN INDIVIDUAL TOWNS. WE WILL FUNCTION AND MOVE TO THOSE SITES RATHER THAN ASKING EVERYBODY TO
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