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Delaware announces vaccine expansion for educators; Walgreens to halt other appointments
Delaware News Journal
Delaware on Friday afternoon announced plans to expand vaccine availability to educators and will hold an event next weekend at Dover International Speedway to vaccinate thousands of educators, school staff and child care workers.
The event in Dover, which will take place Saturday, March 13, and the day after, will be hosted by the Division of Public Health, the Delaware Emergency Management Agency and the Delaware Department of Education.
The Department of Education, in partnership with Albertsons Pharmacy, has vaccinated more than 5,500 educators and school staff, roughly a third of those who expressed interest in vaccination. More than half of those people have been fully vaccinated.
First single-dose COVID-19 vaccine events in Delaware scheduled for this weekend Brandon Holveck, Delaware News Journal
State begins administering Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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Delaware will be hosting its first events using the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this weekend, a week after concluding its largest vaccine clinic to date at Dover International Speedway.
The J&J events will provide vaccines to about 5,000 people at Seaford High School on Saturday and the Division of Motor Vehicles in Delaware City on Sunday. Appointments are being offered this week via email, drawing from the roughly 128,000 people 65 and older on the state s vaccine waiting list.