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Gov. Henry McMaster has asked the state Department of Health and Environmental Control to not go door-to-door to increase vaccination rates despite a federal initiative to do so.
McMaster said in a letter to DHEC that taking the vaccine is a personal choice for South Carolinians and that information about the vaccine and access to the vaccine has been provided to the public.
He added that the initiative from President Joe Biden s administration for door-to-door outreach was bad policy. The prospect of government vaccination teams showing up unannounced or unrequested at the door of targeted homeowners or on their property will further deteriorate the public’s trust and could lead to potentially disastrous public safety consequences, McMaster said in his letter.
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Alabama
Montgomery: The state is getting roughly half as much COVID-19 vaccine as it was expecting based on federal plans announced last year, officials said Friday, meaning it would take more than two years to vaccinate the adult population without improvement. The state has 800 approved vaccination sites and is trying to deliver shots as quickly as it can, but supply issues have been the biggest hindrance to state vaccination efforts, said Dr. Scott Harris, head of the Alabama Department of Public Health. “Every state had the idea that they were going to get much more vaccine than they ultimately got,” he said. “I assume this is related to optimistic projections and the inability of manufacturers to keep up that. … There just wasn’t enough vaccine to go around.” Alabama health officials were expecting to get more th
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The state s health officials have updated the phases for distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and have included timelines for the early phases.
The updates include bringing some non-health care populations into phase 1b, such as teachers, and develops a new phase 1c. You can find the updated breakdown of the phases here.