Craig Sailor: Pierce County s first mass vaccination event brings relief, cheers and honks to 1,700 people
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 1/27/2021 Craig Sailor, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Jan. 26 There were whoops, honking and sighs of relief as the first of 1,700 people got their COVID-19 vaccinations in a free mass clinic Tuesday morning Pierce County s first. People are happy, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department nurse Carolyn Cook said. They re very happy to be vaccinated.
TPCHD and partners MultiCare Health System, Pierce County Department of Emergency Management and Virginia Mason Franciscan Health held the day-long clinic at Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood for eligible vaccine recipients.
2021/01/27 13:16 In this Jan. 26, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden holds his face mask as he speaks on COVID-19, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washing. In this Jan. 26, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden holds his face mask as he speaks on COVID-19, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Biden is dispatching the nation’s top scientists and public health experts to regularly brief the American public about the pandemic. Beginning Jan. 27, the experts will host briefings three times a week on the state of the outbreak and efforts to control it. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the government plans to make about 10.1 million first and second doses available next week, up from this week’s allotment of 8.6 million. The figures represent doses of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. It was not immediately clear how long the surge of doses could be sustained.
Governors and top health officials have been increasingly raising the alarm about inadequate supplies and the need for earlier and more reliable estimates of how much vaccine is on the way so that they can plan.
Biden s team held its first virus-related call with the nation s governors on Tuesday and pledged to provide states with firm vaccine allocations three weeks ahead of delivery.
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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2021, file photo, Dr. John Corman, the chief clinical officer for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, holds a sign that reads Need Vaccine to signal workers to bring him more doses of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 as he works at a one-day vaccination clinic set up in an Amazon.com facility in Seattle. An increasing number of COVID-19 vaccination sites around the U.S. are canceling appointments because of vaccine shortages in a rollout so rife with confusion and unexplained bottlenecks. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) January 27, 2021 - 1:10 PM
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration launched its new level-with-America health briefings Wednesday with a projection that as many as 90,000 more in the U.S. will die from the coronavirus in the next four weeks â a sobering warning as the government strains to improve delivery and injection of vaccines.