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Coconino County now giving COVID-19 vaccines to jail inmates By Associated Press Arizona Dept. of Corrections fined $1M for failing to improve health care A federal judge presiding over a legal settlement on the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons has imposed $1.1 million in contempt of court fines against the state for failing to follow through on its promises to improve inmate care. PHOENIX (AP) - Coconino County sheriff’s officials said Feb. 25 that COVID-19 vaccinations now are being administered to jail inmates. The county's Detention Facility Medical Unit has completed Arizo...

LOWVILLE — Lewis County COVID-19 vaccination numbers indicate the county and hospital are reaching people, getting “shots in arms” and are only slowed by limited dose numbers. County Manager Ryan R. Piche issued a news release with vaccination statistics for county residents Tuesday showing that 2,835, or more than 10% of Lewis County residents, have received the first dose of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Of that number, 891 people have been given their second shot thus far. Based on the American Community Survey five-year estimates made in 2019 by the U.S. Census Burea...

Where’s the COVID-19 vaccine? Who’s been vaccinated? Here's how we'll know. Data on patients and vaccine shipments will flow through a complex network of state and federal data systems. How will it all work? Aleszu Bajak and Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY Published 3:31 pm UTC Dec. 17, 2020 Tracking who’s been immunized against COVID-19 and where people can find vaccines to take -- tasks considered crucial to wiping out the virus -- will be a massive and complex undertaking. A jumble of interconnected state and federal databases will make it work. Their names range from the bland to the mys...

Where’s the COVID-19 vaccine? Who’s been vaccinated? Here's how we'll know. Data on patients and vaccine shipments will flow through a complex network of state and federal data systems. How will it all work? Aleszu Bajak and Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY Published 3:31 pm UTC Dec. 17, 2020 Tracking who’s been immunized against COVID-19 and where people can find vaccines to take -- tasks considered crucial to wiping out the virus -- will be a massive and complex undertaking. A jumble of interconnected state and federal databases will make it work. Their names range from the bland to the mys...

Vaccine on the horizon as state reports spike By CJ HADDAD - | Dec 16, 2020 Local health officials in Lee County are gearing up to receive and distribute the new COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks.  Lee Health said it expects a supply to vaccinate employees by the end of the month while the Department of Health Lee County said their first phase of vaccinations will prioritized for residents of long-term facilities, high-risk frontline healthcare workers and individuals ages 65 and older and/or those with significant comorbidities. While the state preps to acquire the vaccine, nothing is y...