Delaware News Journal
Delaware will continue to give first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to thousands of more residents this week, including about 1,000 educators and school staff, despite not being able to promise them a second dose.
Division of Public Health officials said they are concentrating on first doses to reduce current COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths, but added high-risk health care workers need to get second doses as soon as possible. Until we get adequate supply, this is the extremely difficult balance we will need to continue to strike, spokesperson Robin Bryson said.
Gov. John Carney said last week the state needed to speed up its vaccine rollout to show it can vaccinate more people than it currently has doses for in order to receive more doses. His office referred a request for comment Tuesday to the Division of Public Health.
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Delaware will continue to give first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to thousands of more residents this week, including about 1,000 educators and school staff, despite not being able to promise them a second dose.
Division of Public Health officials said they are concentrating on first doses to reduce current COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths, but added high-risk health care workers need to get second doses as soon as possible.