The Birmingham Times
Thousands of eligible Jefferson County residents began receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, March 29, as a new vaccination site opened at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM).
The vaccination site is a collaborative effort by the Jefferson County Department of Health, Doctor Celeste MD, Bruno Event Team, the City of Birmingham, Birmingham Airport Authority and Kaiser Aircraft Industries. The vaccination site will allow for administering up to 4,500 COVID-19 vaccinations each week over the next 60 days to eligible Jefferson County residents under the guidelines set by the Alabama Department of Public Health.
“This site is an ideal location to serve all of Jefferson County,” said Dr. Mark Wilson, Jefferson County Health Officer. “This collaborative effort will help move us more quickly toward the herd immunity needed to end this pandemic.”
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âThis is going to be frustratingâ: JeffCo health officer on vaccine and limits
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Jefferson County Health Officer Dr. Mark Wilson said the county health department has been preparing and is ready for the expansion of the COVID-19 vaccine starting Monday, February 8.
Wilson said there are thousands of people able to get the vaccine and a large number of people who want the vaccine. Right now there is not enough vaccine to fill the need, but health leaders will distribute the vaccine as quickly as they get it.
Are UAB patients getting COVID-19 vaccine priority?
Clearing up vaccine eligibility confusion By Chasity Maxie | February 3, 2021 at 7:48 PM CST - Updated February 3 at 7:48 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - There seems to be some confusion about the way UAB is handling COVID-19 vaccinations, some believing that only patients of the hospital are getting the vaccine.
A spokesman from UAB said it is not true that only UAB patients are able to get the COVID-19 vaccine at UAB community vaccination sites.
In fact, he said UAB has and will continue to give the vaccine to patients, as well as non-patients, through several partnerships.
First large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites open in Alabama
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
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Alabama’s first large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites opened Monday and Tuesday in Mobile, Auburn and Hoover, a week before more than a million seniors and essential workers in the state become eligible for shots.
Staff and volunteers In Mobile, Lee County and at the Hoover Met will eventually be able to administer more than 1,000 vaccines a day, depending on supply, said Bob Shepard, spokesman for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Shepard said he expected more than 800 vaccines to be administered on Tuesday as the Hoover Met clinic ramps up to full capacity. Some cities and counties have held day-long vaccine clinics, but these are the first efforts to deliver more than a thousand vaccines every day, Monday through Friday.