Tribes report successes in COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
Immunizing Pharmacist Amy Valdez puts a band-aid on Venus Thornton after vaccinating her at a temporary COVID-19 vaccine site organized by the Siletz Community Health Clinic for tribal members and their families in Salem, Ore., on March 5, 2021. (Photo by: Alex Milan Tracy)
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By Brian Bull, Underscore.news
While the U.S. as a whole is just finding its stride administering the COVID-19 vaccine to its citizens, many Native American tribes – including the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians – are on a mean streak.
According to Cherity Bloom-Miller, the tribe’s clinical services director, the tribes have vaccinated roughly one-quarter of the 5,547 enrolled members, and about one-third of those who live in Oregon. As of March 5, the tribal government had given the Moderna vaccine to 3,000 people 18 and over, members and otherwise.
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