RACINE â Hundreds of COVID-19 vaccination appointments have gone unfilled in Racine.
The cityâs health department reports that it transferred 510 doses to other providers because there were so many unfilled appointments at Festival Hall the week of April 12, in addition to 93 cancellations or no-shows that week at the Festival Hall vaccination site. The week prior, there were only 217 cancellations or no shows and zero transfers of doses.
Bowersox
âIn order for us to get control of this (pandemic), we need to be vaccinated,â said Public Health Administrator Dottie-Kay Bowersox.
Bowersox thinks some of that lack of demand should be blamed on the loss of trust in vaccinations after use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was put on pause last week, the result of 6 cases out of 6.8 million vaccinations â less than 1 per 1 million vaccinated â being linked to blood clots in the brain.
RACINE â Hundreds of COVID-19 vaccination appointments have gone unfilled in Racine.
The cityâs health department reports that it transferred 510 doses to other providers because there were so many unfilled appointments at Festival Hall the week of April 12, in addition to 93 cancellations or no-shows that week at the Festival Hall vaccination site. The week prior, there were only 217 cancellations or no shows and zero transfers of doses.
Bowersox
âIn order for us to get control of this (pandemic), we need to be vaccinated,â said Public Health Administrator Dottie-Kay Bowersox.
Bowersox thinks some of that lack of demand should be blamed on the loss of trust in vaccinations after use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was put on pause last week, the result of 6 cases out of 6.8 million vaccinations â less than 1 per 1 million vaccinated â being linked to blood clots in the brain.
RACINE â Jeremy Laffin, owner and pharmacist at Racine Hometown Pharmacy, walked back and forth.
He spent a few minutes behind the pharmacistâs counter, preparing doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. When he left the counter, he administered the vaccine to incoming patients.
Laffin would do this on Tuesday until all 96 appointments the pharmacy had booked for that day were fulfilled. This week, Laffin said the pharmacy has a total of 300 vaccines to administer, not including the hundred it would distribute to teachers.
âWhen we do a flu clinic, our peak is about 40 shots a day,â Laffin said. Of COVID-19 vaccinations: âWeâre going to do 96 today, 96 tomorrow, 102 on Friday.â