Syringes filled with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
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Last September, as Covid-19 vaccine candidates were rapidly advancing, Katherine Park and six of her fellow school nurses in St. Louis County, Mo., envisioned school-based vaccination sites as an extension of the district’s pandemic response plan, which they had been working on for months. They reached out to the local health department, letting it know the district had buildings for use and more than 30 school nurses who could jump in on administering shots.
“Honestly, our health department here was kind of surprised that we even reached out to them,” said Park, who is also the interim director of health services at Parkway Schools, a public school district in western St. Louis County. “It’s almost like they had never really considered they could utilize us.”
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ANCHORAGE (AP) — Health officials in Anchorage said appointments for residents to receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine filled up in a matter of hours this past week,
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Health officials in Anchorage said appointments for residents to receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine have filled up in a matter of hours this week, leading to frustration for people still trying to sign up as vaccination clinics are planned throughout the weekend and early next week.
Anchorage Health Department Director Heather Harris said all 1,800 available time slots were reserved by residents within a four-hour period on Thursday, KTUU-TV reported. Clinics are not accepting walk-ins.
Update, Jan. 14:
The Anchorage School District will offer testing at Tyson Elementary instead of Fairview Elementary as one of its five walk-up COVID-19 testing sites that offer results in 24 hours for staff and students. The Anchorage School District is standing up COVID-19 testing sites in partnership with the Anchorage Health Department. There will be pop-up testing in parking lots at 11 schools on a scheduled basis. The testing is free and for the general public. It will be offered from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the following locations on the following days: • Jan. 8, Abbott Loop Elementary School • Jan. 9, North Star Elementary School