Alabama saw a 31% jump in COVID vaccines last week, now slowed by supply
Updated Feb 18, 2021;
Posted Feb 18, 2021
Large-scale COVID vaccination sites like this one at the Hoover Met Complex opened across Alabama in early February 2021.UAB Media Relations
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For one beautiful week, Alabama’s drive-thru vaccine clinics operated so smoothly, you’d think they also offered waffle-cut fries.
“People were commenting that we had a Chick-Fil-A type process,” said Maegan Austin, spokeswoman for Vaughan Regional Medical Center, which ran a drive-thru clinic in Selma that gave out its entire allotment of 5,000 vaccine doses in less than three days.
Alabama doesn’t have enough vaccine to keep drive-in clinics running
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
Posted Feb 12, 2021
Healthcare workers stand by to give COVID-19 vaccination shots as people drive by Memorial Stadium in Selma on Feb. 8, 2021. (Photo by Greg Garrison/AL.com)
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Mass vaccine sites in eight cities across Alabama combined to give more than 76,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week as the state looked to surge its delivery.
But some of those sites may not open at all next week, or will operate at a lower capacity than they did this week.
Alabama State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris said Friday that the state doesn’t get allocated enough doses every week to supply those drive-thru clinics at the same rates, and that some of the sites may choose not to run the drive-thru clinics next week.