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Birmingham: The Birmingham VA Health Care System is expanding its ability to vaccinate veterans against COVID-19, provided it can get enough doses. A partnership with the United Way of Central Alabama will allow the agency to provide as many as 1,000 shots a day beginning this week to veterans who are at least 65 years old, the VA said. That’s up from the current daily total of 300 people. The change comes because the VA’s vaccine clinic is moving into a United Way building in downtown Birmingham. Chief executive Stacy Vasquez said the system will schedule as many veterans as it can for shots, but obtaining additional vaccine is key. “Right now, I have enough vaccine to take care of 5,000 people next week. But then after that, unless I get another shipment, I don’t know,” Vasquez told WBRC-TV last week. The VA’s vacc
Alaska has nation’s highest coronavirus vaccination rate
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Jan 25, 2021 at 9:56 am EDT
JUNEAU, Alaska Alaska held the enviable position of having the highest rate of coronavirus vaccinations per capita in the nation as of last week, the state’s top health official said.
Alaska Chief Medical Officer Anne Zink said last Thursday that the progress was the result of community efforts to quickly distribute vaccinations and additional allotments for federal agencies within the state, KTOO-FM reported.
Zink told the Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce that Alaska receives more doses of vaccine because of allowances above the state’s share for the Department of Defence, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service.
Alaska has highest COVID-19 vaccination rate in U.S.
Alaska held the enviable position of having the highest rate of coronavirus vaccinations per capita in the nation as of last week, the state s top health official said.
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Posted: Jan 25, 2021 10:21 AM CT | Last Updated: January 25
Emily Schubert, the employee health nurse at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska, prepares a COVID-19 vaccine shot in December 2020. Alaska held the enviable position of having the highest rate of coronavirus vaccinations per capita in the nation as of last week, the state s top health official said.(Mark Thiessen/The Association Press)
CBJ Assemblymember Wade Bryson. Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Assembly voted 7-2 to send a proposal to hire a consultant for $75,000 to design a larger Centennial Hall to the finance committee for more review.
The design could incorporate some of the features that were included in the new Juneau Arts and Culture Center project.
CBJ Manager Rorie Watt said three local groups, the Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce, Travel Juneau, and the new JACC partnership worked together to try and come up with a new proposal. They have worked together with some facilitation from staff to think about the future of Centennial Hall. They support further study of an expanded Centennial Hall concept that would include elements initially proposed in the new JACC project.