Alamance COVID-19 vaccine roll-out a long-term effort
“It sounds like your local health department is going faster than others have.” The Health Department’s goal is to administer 500 doses per day, depending on staffing, Lo Giudice said. That is 2,500 per week. At that rate, it could still take 68 weeks, almost a year and a half, to vaccinate everyone, so he pins his hopes on the supply increasing as soon as possible. After starting with medical personnel and first responders, group 1a, the Health Department started vaccinating people 75 and older, group 1b, last week. Demand overwhelmed supply from day one, and the Department went to ap...
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