Two numbers from my conversation with @GNRHealth's director, Dr. Arona, I can't stop thinking about.
Number 1: Last week, her department, which serves Gwinnett, Newton, and Rockdale got 1200 vaccine doses.
There are close to 1m people in Gwinnett county, alone.
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Number 1: Last week, her department, which serves Gwinnett, Newton, and Rockdale got 1200 vaccine doses.
There are close to 1m people in Gwinnett county, alone.
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@GNRHealth Sure, they don't all qualify for the current phase of vaccination (and other non-public providers are also getting shots).
Even so, that doesn't strike me as a lot of doses for a district that includes one of the state's most populous counties.
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Even so, that doesn't strike me as a lot of doses for a district that includes one of the state's most populous counties.
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@GNRHealth Number 2: In the early days of vaccination, as many as 75% of the shots the district handed out were to people who DID NOT live in Gwinnett, Newton, or Rockdale.
Even if that was just, like, one day of appointments, that's very few actual locals getting shots.
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Even if that was just, like, one day of appointments, that's very few actual locals getting shots.
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@GNRHealth Arona says her district started expanding vaccine to those older than 65 earlier than other districts, which might explain the issue.
But, she says the state was informed of the issue and kept saying districts could book appointments for people who didn't live there.
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But, she says the state was informed of the issue and kept saying districts could book appointments for people who didn't live there.
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@GNRHealth I get this, the pandemic is spreading outside and across health district lines, but I could imagine that's frustrating to people living in that district.
Yet another reminder how, so far, the rollout seems like a free-for-all.
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Yet another reminder how, so far, the rollout seems like a free-for-all.
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