FEMA mass vaccination site opens Wednesday in Memphis
FEMA mass vaccination site opens Wednesday in Memphis By WMC Action News 5 Staff | April 7, 2021 at 6:58 AM CDT - Updated April 7 at 8:06 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A federal mass vaccination site opens Wednesday in Memphis with a goal of vaccinating thousands more Mid-Southerners.
Military personnel will now man the Community Vaccination Center at the Pipkin Building at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. FEMA is taking over operations from the City of Memphis at that location and plans to vaccinate up to 3,000 people each day.
All across the Mid-South, everyone 16 and older is now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Montgomery: The state said it was distributing its first COVID-19 vaccine doses to prisoners Wednesday, the Alabama Department of Corrections announced. The Alabama National Guard was expected to deliver about 1,400 doses to the Bullock Correctional Facility. Prisoners are not required to get the shots. The doses were first allotted to a National Guard-run clinic aimed at vaccinating rural communities. In a statement, ADOC said attendance at those clinics last week was limited by severe weather. The state Department of Public Health notified ADOC that a surplus of defrosted Pfizer vaccines needed to be used. Prisoners and other populations in group settings are prioritized under federal vaccine guidelines because of the risk congregant settings pose for the highly infectious coronavirus. Families of prisoners last year said
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