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A Delaware resident is vaccinated against COVID-19 at a drive-thru site. (DelDHSS)
As Delaware’s COVID-19 case numbers continue to move in the right direction, the state is expanding the list of who is eligible to receive the vaccine.
Starting Wednesday, March 17, anyone age 50 or older can sign up to get inoculated at their pharmacy.
“We’re making some changes that we’ve been thinking about for a couple weeks now to accelerate or collapse the phases,” Gov. John Carney said at his weekly COVID-19 briefing Tuesday afternoon.
As younger Delawareans start to get vaccinated, hospitals and medical providers will remain focused on offering shots to folks who are at higher risk due to a health condition or other reasons.
Carney, in answering a question from WDEL at Tuesday s coronavirus news conference, said:Â I m certainly not going to jump in line in front of hospitals or health care providers.
The first vaccinations were given to doctors and nurses at Bayhealth Hospital, which received a shipment of 975 doses of the state s 8,775 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Progressive care unit nurse Elisabeth Cote was the first Delawarean to be vaccinated Tuesday morning.
The governor said he d act upon advice from public health on when they recommend he get the vaccine. This is one of those matters similar to when we talked about the election. Most of the election work was done by staff so that I was up for election it would not be perceived as interfering with the election, he said. I ll let the public health officials identify the priority. Â