Thanks to the number of hurricanes hitting the state, a Louisiana company will be able to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine far faster than other states.
Louisianaâs biggest hospital systems, like Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, will get the vaccines directly from Pfizer once the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approves moving 3 million doses.
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Thatâll be the case in most states with the larger systems getting medicine. But the smaller hospitals, the ones with fewer than 975 staffers in line to vaccinated, will have to quickly travel to those hospitals and fetch their doses, then get back to administer the injections.