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COVID-19 in Umatilla County resilient despite state rules lifting
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COVID-19 in Umatilla County resilient despite state rules lifting
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PENDLETON â Eastern Oregon officials are raising concerns over vaccine hesitancy and adapting their efforts amid a national âpauseâ over the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine while federal health regulators investigate six rare reports of blood clots in women ages 18 to 48.
The six cases are among the nearly 7 million people who have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the United States as of Monday, April 12, with no other serious adverse reactions having been reported, according to the
New York Times.
âIâm worried that itâs going to drive anti-vaccine messaging and hesitancy further,â Umatilla County Public Health Director Joe Fiumara said of the pause. âThereâs a very small number of folks. Weâre talking less than one-in-a-million chance. I definitely think this is a move out of an abundance of caution, but Iâm worried that the messaging that will be carried with it is that the vaccine is not safe.â
MILTON-FREEWATER â While the sky outside grew darker by the minute ahead of the looming snowstorm, Dean Groshong sat patiently in a folding chair at the townâs Community Building on Thursday, Feb. 11.
The 81-year-old had received his first COVID-19 vaccination and was in the mandatory post-shot 15-minute observation time. Thatâs in place at clinics everywhere to assess people for possible side effects from the formula before sending them out the door.
After working the phone for 2-1/2 hours Feb. 8 to get this appointment, a little wait time didnât bother him, Groshong said.
Although he and his wife live in Pendleton, this weekâs clinic there had filled up by the time he could get through the countyâs switchboard, and he was directed to come to Milton-Freewater.
Health officials in Walla Walla and Umatilla counties offered what clarification they could about vaccination for COVID-19 in Monday morning county commissioner meetings.
Department of Community Health Director Nancy Wenzel told Walla Walla County officials her office will not be getting any doses of vaccine at this time.
All initial vials of Pfizerâs vaccine, approved by the federal government on Friday and by Washington state on Sunday, will head right to Providence St. Mary Medical Center, Wenzel said.
How and when it will be dispensed in Walla Walla County is still being determined, but the promise of it coming, along with some new hires in public health, feels like a light at the end of the tunnel, Wenzel said.
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