Why is Georgia slower than others in administering vaccines? Will pharmacies help with rollout?
Georgia has administered less than 23% of available vaccines, compared to West Virginia, which has administered about 65%, according to CDC data tracker. Author: Paola Suro (WXIA) Updated: 12:01 AM EST January 17, 2021
ATLANTA Georgia still stands as one of the slowest states in the U.S. when it comes to the administering of the COVID-19 vaccine. Health experts hope that making them available via pharmacies will change that statistic.
COVID-19 expert and Augusta University professor Dr. David Blake said the pharmacies should speed up the process. It will certainly help and I ve held for quite some time that we do really well each fall with the flu vaccine, said Dr. Blake. We vaccinated 56 percent of the country this year for the flu and we need to do more than that for COVID. We should use the same sort of infrastructure.
Efforts may be underway to get a vaccine call center set up for Lamar County as residents seeking a vaccine overwhelm phone lines and email boxes. Providers are at the
Even as vaccination efforts are launched in the region’s skilled nursing facilities, novel coronavirus cases and outbreaks continue to rise among the county’s most vulnerable populations.
For the fifth week in a row, San Diego County officials reported Thursday that there have been a record-breaking number of outbreaks among skilled nursing facilities.
There are currently 63 active outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities out of the 150 that have occurred since the beginning of the pandemic.
More than half of the coronavirus cases among skilled nursing residents, and nearly half of the cases among staff, have occurred over the past six weeks during the holiday season surge in COVID-19 infections.
As of January 15th, there were 74,885 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with 675 deaths due to COVID-19 reported among Mecklenburg County residents.
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