First shipment of Moderna vaccines to be delivered to Oregon prisons Tuesday, vaccinations begin Wednesday
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
The effort to vaccinate inmates will begin Wednesday, with “COVID-19 vulnerable” prisoners getting priority, an agency spokesman said. The vaccination clinics will continue on Thursday if necessary, state officials said. The agency expects to receive another 5,000 doses next week. Photo by Beth Nakamura/Staff LC-
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The Oregon Department of Corrections will begin immunizing inmates statewide starting Wednesday.
Jennifer Black, a department spokeswoman, said 5,000 Moderna vaccines had arrived Monday. She said starting Tuesday, they will be shipped to each of the state’s 14 prisons.
Oregon has been ordered to start vaccinating inmates immediately. (CNN)A federal judge ruled that Oregon must offer Covid-19 vaccinations to all prison inmates immediately putting them ahead of the state s senior citizens in line for the limited supply of vaccines.
In an order issued Tuesday, US Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman wrote that inmates are particularly vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus because they live and work in close quarters and have limited ability to social distance. From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was clear that our country s prisons were uniquely vulnerable to the transmission and spread of the virus, she wrote. Prisons have not been spared from this reality, as COVID-19 s toll continues to mount behind bars.
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