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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
COVID-19 mitigation still encouraged
Officials with Lakes Regional Healthcare announced Thursday the hospital expects to receive 300 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by pharmaceutical company Moderna. The vaccines are anticipated to arrive the week of Dec. 21, and the first round of vaccinations might be given to local healthcare workers around Christmas, according to Dickinson County Public Health Director Katy Burke.
Priorities for the first doses
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Burke said the state health department is initially supplying each county with enough vaccines to cover about 30 percent of their health care work forces. She said Dickinson County has around 850 healthcare workers but, because the Moderna vaccine is shipped in increments of 100, Dickinson County was allotted an even 300 doses. LRH Chief Medical Officer Jeremy Bolluyt said the vaccines won t be given exclusively to providers within the hospital. He said dentists, optometrists and other healt