South Health District resumes administering Janssen vaccines
South Health District resumes administering Janssen vaccines By Jennifer Morejon | April 29, 2021 at 6:29 PM EDT - Updated April 29 at 8:04 PM
VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - After a few week’s pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, South Health District has started back giving them again.
Health officials say the demand for that specific vaccine is still there.
“Each health department has a schedule where one day during the week they will offer Janssen vaccine and the other days they’ll offer Moderna,” said Courtney Sheeley with South Health District.
Serving 10 counties including Lowndes, Brooks, and Cook, Sheeley tells us they had a list of people waiting for its return.
Health officials: If you got the J&J vaccine, donât panic By Jennifer Morejon | April 15, 2021 at 6:45 PM EDT - Updated April 15 at 8:06 PM
VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - Georgia Department of Public Healthâs South Health District has gotten calls from worried people whoâve gotten the Johnson and Johnson, or Janssen, vaccine.
Those who got the one-shot Janssen are probably wondering âwhat now?â
Health officials said donât panic â If you have a severe headache, leg pain or shortness of breath from the vaccine, you re asked to contact your doctor. (Source: WALB)
âWe have gotten some people that call us that have been worried and gotten the vaccine. But the thing we try to remind people is that this is six cases out of 6.8 million doses that have been administered. It is severe but a very rare condition,â said Courtney Sheeley, director of communications for the district.
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LOWNDES COUNTY, Ga. (WTXL) â Georgia Department of Health South District leaders are preparing now to vaccinate at least 1,500 educators in Lowndes County.
South Health District communication director Courtney Sheeley says they began reaching out to superintendents and school nurses in their two largest districts last week. Here in the Lowndes County school system, they are close to 1,000 people in their district, said Sheeley. And then when you look at Valdosta City Schools, I believe theirs was somewhere between 4- and 500. So we re already looking at, just here in Lowndes County alone, just in our two largest public school systems, you re looking at about 1,500 people.