"Everybody's just loved it, I mean, the residents. I guess to have something like this, you know, this is what I call the spirit lifter," said resident Rick Simmons.
Another 4,000 doses of two newly approved COVID-19 vaccines are expected to come to eastern Idaho this week, a health district spokeswoman told the Post Register on Tuesday.
Mimi Taylor with Eastern Idaho Public Health said the largely rural eight-county part of the state is expecting 975 doses of Pfizerâs vaccine and 3,000 doses of Modernaâs vaccine. Last week, the district expected 975 doses of Pfizerâs vaccine. Thatâs among the 28,000 Moderna doses that Gov. Brad Little said the state expects to receive by weekâs end.
The allocation is much higher than last week, when health care workers were first inoculated with the very limited initial doses of Pfizer/BioNTechâs vaccine outside of a medical trial. Week twoâs allocation includes Modernaâs new COVID-19 vaccine, which the FDA approved for emergency use on Friday, but reduced allocations of Pfizerâs vaccine have slowed a lengthy distribution process that has prioritized health care wor