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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
By SABRINA MORENO
Richmond Times-Dispatch
RICHMOND â Virginia has not recorded the race or ethnicity of more than half of the people who have received the coronavirus vaccine, undercutting a critical pillar in marshaling resources to hard-hit populations.
Thereâs little evidence to show that will change, even as the state pledges an equitable distribution of a limited supply that researchers say is nearly impossible to execute without accounting for these demographics.
The already questionable success of asking its most skeptical and underserved communities for trust lies in incomplete state figures that show that when race has been recorded, 71% of those vaccinated have been white. Whites account for less than half of COVID-19 hospitalizations, but make up 59% of health care workers prioritized in the first phase of distribution.
Virginia must accelerate vaccinations, governor says
Photo/Fauquier Health
Michelle Crouse gets her first vaccine last month as Fauquier Hospital begins administering shots to nurses and other front-line employees. Donât save anything. Youâre going to get every dose you need because more is coming. But if youâre not using what you receive, you must be getting too much. Gov. Ralph Northam to healthcare providers
By Kate Masters
Gov. Ralph Northam on Wednesday acknowledged that Virginia needs to speed up the pace of its COVID-19 vaccinations, announcing a âyou use it or you lose it policyâ prodding health care providers to administer the shots to more residents.