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Montgomery: The state is getting roughly half as much COVID-19 vaccine as it was expecting based on federal plans announced last year, officials said Friday, meaning it would take more than two years to vaccinate the adult population without improvement. The state has 800 approved vaccination sites and is trying to deliver shots as quickly as it can, but supply issues have been the biggest hindrance to state vaccination efforts, said Dr. Scott Harris, head of the Alabama Department of Public Health. “Every state had the idea that they were going to get much more vaccine than they ultimately got,” he said. “I assume this is related to optimistic projections and the inability of manufacturers to keep up that. … There just wasn’t enough vaccine to go around.” Alabama health officials were expecting to get more th
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5 new COVID cases confirmed among Wyoming inmates, correctional staff By Brendan LaChance on January 12, 2021
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CASPER, Wyo. The Wyoming Department of Corrections said on Tuesday, Jan. 12 that routine surveillance sampling of inmates and correctional staff in Wyoming in the last week revealed five new positive cases of COVID-19.
Three cases were identified at the Wyoming State Penitentiary and two at the Wyoming Honor Farm:
Wyoming State Penitentiary (WSP) Rawlins
Positive Covid Cases: 3
Positive Covid Cases: 2
Positive Covid Cases: 0
Positive Covid Cases: 0
Positive Covid Cases: 0
Inmates 0
“Working with the Wyoming Department of Health, all positive inmate cases are medically monitored and managed by the Department and our health care provider (Corizon Health, Inc.) in accordance with CDC guidelines,” the Wyoming Department of Corrections said. “The Department continues conducting rigorous surveillance testing at all sites as necessary and will provi