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Arkansas health officials are focused on boosting vaccine numbers ahead of any rise in COVID-19 variants, getting more vaccines to minority groups, and overcoming vaccine “resistance,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday (April 6) during his weekly COVID briefing.
“We have to overcome resistance. We have to overcome the challenges of a rural state,” the governor said.
Arkansas has received 1,881,900 vaccines since Dec. 14, including 58,020 in the previous 24 hours. Of that, 1,276,675 doses have been administered, or 67.8% of vaccines received, according to the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH). The department also reports 357,280 Arkansans are partially immunized and 477,857 are fully immunized.
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Tuesday he is expanding vaccine eligibility to all Arkansans in category 1-C.
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With around 10% of Arkansans being fully vaccinated and a push by the Biden administration to open vaccine access, Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday expanded eligibility an estimated 1.2 million Arkansans in the 1c category.
There are an estimated 2.131 million Arkansans now eligible – total in categories 1a-c – to receive the vaccine, according to the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH). The state’s population is about 3.018 million according to the latest estimate from the U.S. Census.
Another 180,000 Arkansans are newly eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccines as the state fully opens up Phase 1B of its vaccination schedule . Gov. Asa
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