Health officials in Ashland, Holmes and Wayne counties, who are responsible for vaccinating the EMS staff, are lamenting the limited supply of shots.
“I am disappointed because we would like to move more quickly,” Holmes County General Health District Commissioner Mike Derr said of his agency’s 100-dose per week shipments from the state.
Wayne County Health Commissioner Nick Cascarelli said his department had vaccinated about 950 members of the 1A group as of Wednesday, and 400 more 1A-eligible individuals have already registered for the coming weeks.
Despite the numbers and letters, one phase of the state’s vaccination plan does not have to be deemed complete for the next to begin. And the beginning of a new phase does not lock members of previous groups who have not been vaccinated out of doing so.