Gov. Asa Hutchinson received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday as the state entered Phase 1-B of the Arkansas Department of Health’s distribution plan.
South Carolina lawmakers push for quicker vaccination process
VIDEO: South Carolina lawmakers push for quicker vaccination process By Alexis Simmons | December 30, 2020 at 3:48 PM EST - Updated December 31 at 9:25 AM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina state health officials say while more vaccines continue to arrive in the state, doses are limited.
As of Tuesday, The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said the state received 112,125 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 31,511 doses have been administered.
State Senator Marlon Kimpson says he recently joined a partisan group of state legislatures who are calling on DHEC to put fourth what they call a “viable plan” to get people vaccinated in South Carolina.
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According to the Alabama Nursing Home Association, vaccinations will begin in Alabama nursing homes sometime around Christmas.
The federal government has entered a partnership with CVS and Walgreens Pharmacies to distribute and administer the vaccine in Alabama’s nursing homes.
Vaccines are expected to arrive at the pharmacies on December 21, and a vaccination plan will be in place and should be implemented a few days later.
State officials say 52,000 doses if the vaccine are set aside for nursing home staff and residents, and that will be enough to give the entire two shot dosage.
The Pfizer vaccine is administered as a two shot dose, with the second dose coming 21 to 28 days after the first.
Revere Public Health Department Director Lauren Buck said the city is not at the point where it will be administering the COVID-19 vaccines to residents yet but the staff is making logistical preparations for the arrival and distribution of the vaccines.
“We as a Board of Health are not there yet, but long-term care facilities have been working for weeks through the state’s program in partnership with CVS and Walgreens Pharmacies in order to get that process up and running, but the vaccines are not there that.”
Buck said “any healthcare workers who live in Revere and work in acute care hospitals will hopefully be hearing from their employers about when they can be vaccinated there.”