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Rural Arizona hospital frustrated by smaller vaccine allotment
Copper Queen Community Hospital says it s ready to vaccinate
and last updated 2021-01-31 16:21:13-05
BISBEE, Ariz. (KGUN) â Frustration is building at one rural Arizona hospital as vaccine allotment shrinks.
Leaders at Copper Queen Community Hospital in Bisbee said they are going from vaccinating hundreds a day to just giving second doses- and at this point, they said they wonât be able to vaccine teachers and those 75 and older in a timely manner.
The county s allotment will only be made up of 1,100 vaccines and only 100 will be first-time doses.
âItâs such a shame that we were ready to go. We ve got patients calling our clinics, all four of them combined have over 700 calls a day. Most of those calls were patients looking for ways to access the vaccine, explained Robert Seamon, CEO of Copper Queen Community Hospital.