On Thursday, the Taylor County Health Department posted the following update to its Facebook page:
This week we received news that said we will receive consistent shipments of vaccine for the remainder of February. Each week we will receive 100 initial doses in Adams and 100 initial doses in Taylor. To account for this we’ve adjusted our vaccine clinic strategy and will now hold 1 clinic each week in Bedford and another in Corning to dispense all of the vaccine we receive. We will continue to receive boost doses separately to ensure everyone that received their initial dose will get a second dose.
In addition, we learned that vaccine will also be sent to retail pharmacies. This is good news as it means more vaccine will be available in our area each week. Right now Bedford Drug in Bedford and NuCara Pharmacy in Lenox are slated to receive vaccine in the upcoming weeks. It is not yet known when HyVee Pharmacy in Corning will receive their shipment of vaccine. Demand for the vaccine continues to outweigh our supply however we are starting to see more entities receive vaccine that will slowly increase our supply.
We continue to focus on those that are 65 and older but I am happy to say we’ve completed initial vaccination clinics for school staff, law enforcement, fire personnel and child care providers (tier 1) in Taylor and Adams County! Our next focus is workers in food, agriculture, distribution and manufacturing that are unable to social distance while working. This will be our largest tier of essential workers to vaccinate. We work to find the best approach to vaccinate this group of people with the supply we will be given. More information will be forthcoming for these employers.
Taylor County Public Health continues to take names of individuals 65 years of age and older. To get your name on the list please call our office – 641.322.6283 or 712.523.3405.
From this list we will call you to schedule an appointment for vaccination at our weekly clinics. Please pass this information along to those you know!
We’ve used a tier approach to scheduling vaccination appointments for those 65 and older. Since age is the highest indicator of severe illness and mortality followed by pre-existing conditions to COVID, we scheduled those that were the oldest with severe health conditions first. We continue to work down the tiers as more vaccine is received. We will begin scheduling those that are 65-75 years old with severe health conditions within the next 2 weeks. Right now there is no residency requirements for vaccination; however, with the limited supply we are giving priority to residents of Taylor and Adams County.
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