BOISE — Limited coronavirus vaccine availability, confusion over just which Idaho residents should be vaccinated first and rumors of line-jumpers are all complicating the state’s vaccine rollout.
With limited vaccine, Idaho faces priority group confusion
By REBECCA BOONEJanuary 22, 2021 GMT
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Limited coronavirus vaccine availability, confusion over just which Idaho residents should be vaccinated first and rumors of line-jumpers are all complicating the state’s vaccine rollout.
Members of Idaho’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Committee met Friday to help clarify exactly who should have first dibs on the state’s vaccine doses. On average, Idaho is shipped about 21,000 vaccine doses each week. Those shipments are earmarked as “first doses,” with the federal government automatically shipping the second dose for each individual vaccine recipient around three weeks later.
First COVID-19 vaccines administered in eastern Idaho
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Eastern Idaho Public Health Clinical Services Division Director Amy Gamett giving a COVID-19 vaccination at Madison Memorial Hospital Monday afternoon. | Brittni Johnson, EastIdahoNews.com
REXBURG The COVID-19 vaccine has officially landed in Idaho and a local hospital was one of the first to administer it.
Madison Memorial Hospital became one of the first hospitals in the Gem State to provide the vaccine Monday afternoon. A hospital in the Boise area also received a shipment Monday but it’s unclear if shots have been administered yet.
Eastern Idaho Public Health Clinical Services Division Director Amy Gamett injected the vaccine into five Madison Memorial employees including doctors, a respiratory therapist and a registered nurse who works in the intensive care unit.