RBC | Changes made to the state’s vaccination roll-out plan last Wednesday that added additional groups of people to Tier 1B have created new opportunities for vaccination distribution.
“Supply chains have been able to get allocations out sooner than expected,” said RBC Public Health Director Alice Harvey. “We have 300 doses coming this week.”
The first vaccinations in RBC took place last week at both county hospitals and assisted living centers and vaccinations continue for individuals in the Tier 1A group this week. Beginning Thursday, the county will start vaccinations for individuals in Tier 1B, which now includes people over 70 years of age, moderate-risk health care workers, first responders, frontline essential workers, and essential officials in state government (see ad on Page 2A for details).