UAB aims to expand vaccinations by the thousands in weeks ahead
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
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UAB hopes to vaccinate up to 17,000 Alabamians a week with expanded sites in the weeks ahead, pending available supply. Alabamians eligible for vaccines who live in the Birmingham area will be able to sign up by appointment.
UAB plans to start out small, with 300 to 400 doses a day, at a new vaccination site at A.H. Parker High School in Birmingham.
Vaccinations at UAB’s site in Hoover started at 800 a day and now may be eventually increased to 2,000 a day.
“It’s actually gone a lot more efficiently than we thought,” said Dr. Sarah Nafziger, UAB Hospital’s vice president hospital for clinical services at a press conference Friday.