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Mary Washington Healthcare has gotten 6,000 more doses of COVID-19 vaccine, part of the stateâs effort to move more shots from the freezer into peoplesâ arms. The doses will be given out through Sunday, and the hospital is contacting older residents, health care workers and school staff members to make appointments, said Lisa Henry, MWHCâs marketing director. The hospital system is working off a list of names provided by the Rappahannock Area Health District. And itâs a long list. More than 30,000 residents age 65 and up have registered through the local health district, said spokesperson Allison Balmes-John. She and Henry asked that others interested in getting vaccinated do the sameâand to register only once. Those in tier 1b, which includes residents 65 and older, those 16 to 64 with underlying health issues and certain essential workers, can register through the health district, either online at vdh.virginia.gov/Rappahannock or by calling 5 ....
Information about registering for a COVID-19 vaccine in the Rappahannock Area Health District. Even with the confusion and frustration of the registration process, things had started to click with the local rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Rappahannock Area Health District had worked out kinks in its distribution plans, lined up more vaccinators and taken its clinics on the road, both to King George County and the Brisben Center homeless shelter. Mary Washington Healthcare had moved as many as 1,500 people a day through its clinic to the point that people posting on a virtual town hall last week compared its efficiency to a Chick-Fil-A drive-thru. But like many other aspects of life, especially during a pandemic, Murphyâs law prevailed. ....
Virginia is moving those 65 and older higher up the line for COVID-19 vaccines. Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday that those between the ages of 65 and 74, as well as young people with underlying conditions that put them at-risk for serious infections, will be moved up to tier 1b. They will be eligible for vaccinations at the same time as others already in that tier, which includes residents 75 and older, certain essential workers and those in correctional facilities, homeless shelters and migrant camps. âThis means about half of Virginia is eligible to receive the vaccine,â the governor said, noting that 8.5 million people live in the state. âThatâs a major logistical effort, and it is not going to happen overnight. Everyone will need to be patient, and itâs going to happen as fast as it can be done.â ....
Local health care workers who want to be vaccinated for COVID-19 will get the point of the shots, starting the week of Jan. 4. Officials with the Rappahannock Area Health District and Mary Washington Healthcare have been working on logistics for weeks and have rolled out a plan that includes turning the Fredericksburg Expo and Conference Center into Vaccination Central. Ten public-health nurses and 15 clinical volunteers from the Rappahannock Medical Reserve Corps, who have had the first of the two-dose Moderna vaccine, will start giving shots in the arms at whatâs being called Point of Distribution clinics, or PODs. Each vaccinator can inoculate about four people per hourâthose receiving the vaccine need to be monitored for about 15 minutes for possible reactionsâwhich means the 25 vaccinators potentially could roll through up to 800 people in an eight-hour shift, said Mary Chamberlin, public relations specialist with the district. ....