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Montgomery: The state said it was distributing its first COVID-19 vaccine doses to prisoners Wednesday, the Alabama Department of Corrections announced. The Alabama National Guard was expected to deliver about 1,400 doses to the Bullock Correctional Facility. Prisoners are not required to get the shots. The doses were first allotted to a National Guard-run clinic aimed at vaccinating rural communities. In a statement, ADOC said attendance at those clinics last week was limited by severe weather. The state Department of Public Health notified ADOC that a surplus of defrosted Pfizer vaccines needed to be used. Prisoners and other populations in group settings are prioritized under federal vaccine guidelines because of the risk congregant settings pose for the highly infectious coronavirus. Families of prisoners last year said
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While cases of COVID-19 are way down in Greene County from where they were just a few weeks ago, people are still dying from the illness.
The Springfield-Greene County Health Department says two deaths were reported to them between March 24 and March 30. They are a man in his 70s and a woman in her 80s.
A total of 424 Greene County residents has died of COVID-19.
View the Greene County COVID-19 Dashboard here.
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There’s a new resource for area residents who need help getting a COVID-19 shot. The Springfield-Greene County Health Department is launching a regional call center with other public health agencies in the area. Southwest Missouri residents can call (417) 874-1211 to ask questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and get scheduled for an appointment near them.
County health departments that worked with Greene County to create the call center are Christian, Dade, Hickory, Jasper, Lawrence, Polk, Stone and Webster.
According to the Springfield-Greene County Health Department, residents of those or other counties can call 874-1211 to get registered and scheduled for appointments.
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