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News Articles: vaccine distribution

PBS NewsHour American Academy of Pediatrics urges FDA to approve COVID vaccines for children under 12

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  • Health

Looking for a COVID vaccine for you or your child? This Facebook group can help

Back in January, a handful of women founded the “Georgia COVID Appointment help” group on Facebook. Members and volunteers wanted to help those unfamiliar with technology get their shots. Now, they're navigating questions about booster shots and vaccine approval for children.

November 01, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Vaccine site in Coastal Georgia

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  • Health

Community Effort Works To Move Savannah Conversations To Vaccinations

While Chatham’s average is slightly higher rate than Georgia’s overall vaccine rate of 42%, it falls woefully short of the levels needed to achieve “herd immunity,” when enough of the population is vaccinated in order to protect those that can’t be, such as children and immunocompromised people. 

August 26, 2021
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By:
  • Jacqueline GaNun
Gov. Kemp at news conference

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  • Health

Five More COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Sites To Open In Georgia

The additional vaccine sites add to four other locations that opened last month in metro Atlanta, Macon, Albany and Habersham County. The new sites will open in Savannah, Columbus, Waycross and Bartow and Washington counties.

March 04, 2021
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By:
  • Beau Evans
A sign at a vaccination site in Los Angeles reflects the holdup in vaccine distribution as a result of this week's storms. White House officials said Friday that the extreme weather delayed the shipment of some 6 million doses across the country.

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  • National

Extreme Winter Weather Creates Backlog Of 6 Million Vaccine Doses

The White House COVID-19 Response Team said Friday that while this week's storm affected deliveries to all 50 states, it is confident it can make up the backlog within the next week.

February 19, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Dr. James Black, head of emergency medicine at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany,   Ga, was the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday in the city that was once among the most severely affected pandemic hotspots in the world.

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  • Health

COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Racism, Health Inequities In Georgia

As the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out across Georgia, early data suggest a troubling trend that those most vulnerable to the virus are having the hardest time getting vaccinated. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge reports.  

February 18, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Nurse Modesta Littleman vaccinates patient Peter Sulewski in late January, on the first day of vaccinations at a clinic run by Health Care for the Homeless in Baltimore.

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  • Health

Vaccinating Homeless Patients Against COVID-19: 'All Bets Are Off'

A community health center is now immunizing the local homeless population. But vaccination logistics, already complex, are compounded by the additional barriers in communication and transportation.

February 17, 2021
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced on Tuesday that the supply of COVID-19 vaccines going directly to pharmacies will double to 2 million this week.

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  • Health

Biden Administration Says It Has Increased Vaccine Supply

Officials announced a boost of about three million doses to the states and an additional one million to the federally run pharmacy program.

February 16, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
A highway on-ramp in Houston is closed due to snow and ice on Monday. Frigid temperatures, icy roads and power outages caused by a major winter storm have interfered with COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Texas and several other states.

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  • National

Winter Storm Disrupts COVID-19 Vaccinations, Closing Clinics And Delaying Shipments

Missouri has canceled all state-run mass vaccination events for the week, as other states and cities across the South reschedule appointments and warn of delayed shipments.

February 16, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Health

Is It Ever OK To Jump Ahead In The Vaccine Line?

With vaccine still scarce, and eligibility differing from place to place, some people have easier access to "extra" doses than others. Careful, ethicists warn. Going out of turn is a slippery slope.

February 06, 2021
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  • Pien Huang
In an NPR/<em>PBS NewsHour</em>/Marist poll, Americans view President Trump as either below average or one of the worst U.S. presidents, while incoming President-elect Joe Biden gets better reviews.

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  • Politics

Poll: Most Americans Think Trump Will Be Remembered As A Subpar President

By a 60%-to-27% margin, Americans said they thought Trump would go down as either one of the worst presidents in history or below average. President-elect Joe Biden is viewed more positively.

January 19, 2021
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
The incoming Biden administration has plans to speed up distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, by not holding doses in reserve.

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  • Health

Biden's Plan To Release More Vaccine Is A Gamble. Is It Worth The Risk?

Experts argue that pushing out more COVID-19 vaccine doses to states sooner may be a good idea, even if it means there's a chance some people's second dose gets delayed.

January 09, 2021
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Rob Stein
Gene Bracegirdle is relieved to get his first dose of the vaccine recently in rural Colorado.

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  • National

COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Off To A Slow Start — But Not In Some Rural Areas

Some rural areas, where health care is usually harder to get, appear to be leading the nation in delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine. But health leaders are cautioning there are caveats.

January 08, 2021
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
An American flag with an image of a Native American on it in To'Hajiilee Indian Reservation in New Mexico. In California, a vaccine allocation committee is considering taking historical injustice into account in advance of a statewide rollout.

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  • Health

California May Consider 'Historical Injustice' When Allocating COVID-19 Vaccine

Could earlier access to the vaccine for some groups, like Native Americans, be a form of reparations for historical injustice?

December 18, 2020
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By:
  • April Dembosky
Coastal Georgia nurses receive the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine

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  • Health

Georgia Administers First COVID-19 Vaccines

Four Coastal Georgia nurses were among the state's first recipients of the vaccine against COVID-19.

December 15, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Jones
Two shipping containers holding the first doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived at the UPS Worldport in Louisville, Ky., on Sunday.

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  • National

UPS Executive: Vaccine Shipments Will Reach Distribution Centers Monday Morning

Wes Wheeler, president of UPS Healthcare, told NPR Sunday that the first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines is on its way to sites in all 50 states, complete with dry ice and Bluetooth technology.

December 13, 2020
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
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