Phillips was among the roughly 1,200 people to get their first vaccine dose Friday, the first day of a two-day clinic, in an area state leaders are focusing on making sure has access to shots.
Louisiana Department of Health opens up another mass vaccination site
LDH opens mass COVID-19 vaccination site By Breanne Bizette | February 26, 2021 at 4:39 PM CST - Updated February 26 at 5:14 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana Department of Health opens up another mass vaccination site in North Baton Rouge at Living Faith Christian Center, a part of their plan to make sure vulnerable communities are accounted for.
More than 3,000 minorities have died from COVID-19 across the state of Louisiana, and now more than ever the Department of Health wants to create herd immunity in areas that have been severely impacted by COVID-19.
State leaders hoping north Baton Rouge vaccine clinic, serving thousands, can be emulated statewide wbrz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wbrz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Starting Monday, teachers, day care workers, and people aged 54 to 61-years-old with underlying health conditions will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Edwards.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Louisiana will receive potentially thousands of extra doses of the coronavirus vaccine, steered to Walmart pharmacies under a program announced Tuesday by President Joe Biden’s administration.
Hours after the White House released its plan to distribute 1 million doses directly to retail pharmacies, Louisiana’s health department announced it has opted into the program, using 56 Walmart pharmacies around the state. The pharmacy initiative starts Feb. 11.
Whatever vaccine doses those Walmart pharmacies will start receiving through the federal program next week will come on top of the other Pfizer and Moderna doses shipped directly to the state each week to divvy up on its own. Health department officials said that’s why it made sense to participate, to boost the number of vaccine doses reaching arms in Louisiana.
Louisiana, like other states, currently receives a percentage of the vaccine doses sent to states based on its population. If that same percentage i