What you need to know about changes to COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Shelby County Corinne S Kennedy and Samuel Hardiman, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Vaccine expert anticipates vaccine distribution to improve, despite rough start
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As the city of Memphis assumes control of the COVID-19 vaccination process in Shelby County, city officials said the transition has so far been seamless and, for now, residents will not need to do anything differently to get access to the vaccine.
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said on Thursday morning, Memphis Fire Department personnel transported more than 6,000 vaccine doses to eight sites for distribution, including two sites specifically for teachers.
Thousands of Shelby County teachers to be vaccinated this week
SCS staff vaccinations set to start this week By WMC Action News 5 Staff | February 22, 2021 at 5:53 PM CST - Updated February 22 at 6:51 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - By the end of next week, thousands of Shelby County teachers will finally be vaccinated. Vaccinations for school staff will begin on Wednesday and continue into next month.
For many teachers in Shelby County, vaccinations will be brought right to their school district. Many districts are even teaming up to do joint district vaccinations.
At Shelby County Schools alone, more than 6,000 teachers will be vaccinated by the end of the week.
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Tennessee cuts Shelby County out of vaccine distribution; Memphis, hospitals and pharmacies will administer doses Micaela A Watts, Corinne S Kennedy, Katherine Burgess and Samuel Hardiman, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Vaccine expert anticipates vaccine distribution to improve, despite rough start
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Due to waste and inefficiencies, the state of Tennessee is cutting the Shelby County Health Department out of the vaccine distribution process and will instead send doses to the city of Memphis, local hospitals and pharmacies.
The Tennessee Department of Health said the county wasted a total of 2,400 doses across seven separate incidents over the month of February. Spoilage of that magnitude could also trigger a federal investigation, state officials said.
SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly a year into a life-altering pandemic, many Americans are fed up with wearing masks, desperate for a return to normalcy and numb to the relentless stream of grim numbers, such as the 500,000 COVID-19 deaths the USA surpassed Monday.
Health care workers don’t want to hear any of that.
They have been working endless hours amid constant death and suffering, forsaking time off and exposing themselves to the disease, leaving them exhausted and with no real indication of when the pandemic will relent.
“There’s definitely some tangible fatigue on the health care workers’ side, being sick of COVID and sick of people disregarding public health guidance, getting sick and expecting us to defer another vacation or put off something else,” said Eric Cioe-Peña, an emergency room physician running a COVID-19 field hospital in Staten Island, New York.