Thread by @OHAOregon

OHA Chief Financial Officer Dave Baden during today's press conference: "Building on yesterday’s total of 221,721 first doses admin., we expect to add another 30,000-40,000 first doses administered by the end of this week, before we begin vaccinating educators on January 25th."

"On Jan. 25, we will have vaccinated 67% of the Phase 1A workforce and long-term care residents. As we begin vaccinating educators, anyone we missed in Phase 1A will remain eligible for a vaccine."

"Over the next two weeks, we’ll specifically reserve approximately 40,000 first doses for Phase 1A workers and long-term care residents. Going into early February, we’ll have vaccinated approximately 72% of people in Phase 1A."

"Oregon receives a combined total of 50,000 first doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines per week. We have approximately 105,000 teachers and other K-12 school staff and 47,000 early learning and childcare staff who are eligible for a vaccine starting Monday January 25th."

"To vaccinate educators, we will provide enough to administer 30,000 and 31,264 first doses the weeks of Jan. 24th and 31st, respectively, reserving the remainder for people in Phase 1A. 25,000 first doses the week of Feb. 7th, when 168,000 seniors who are 80+ become eligible."

"By the end of the first week that seniors are eligible, we’ll have provided enough doses to vaccinate 57 percent of the educator workforce."

"Because of the organized partnerships between local public health departments and K-12 school districts, we expect the vast majority of the nearly 87,000 doses we project to deliver to educators over the next 3 weeks will be administered to K-12 school staff."

"We expect to have vaccinated a critical mass of seniors (~78%) by the end of the 1st wk of May. We could've vaccinated seniors first. But because we can only count on 50,000 prime doses/week, in that scenario, we wouldn’t reach a critical mass of educators until well into May."

"In the next two weeks, while we’re vaccinating educators, we’re still setting aside doses for the remainder of people who are unvaccinated from Phase 1A groups. The week of Feb. 7, when people 80+ become eligible, we’re assuming an even split of doses b/w educators and seniors."

"Under our approach, we expect all our vaccinators are reserving second doses for people who’ve received their prime shot. Keep that in mind when you hear people claim there are thousands of doses sitting on shelves in Oregon."

"Remember, we could provide doses to more people in these populations if we allocated all of our 100,000 doses each week in that way. But we don’t think that’s responsible, until we get direction from @CDCgov and the manufacturers to spend doses in that way."

"Let me emphasize: Our timelines depend on the doses we receive from the federal government. If we receive more, we can move faster. If we receive less, we’ll have no choice but to slow down."

"This morning we did receive notice from @CDCgov that we could receive a 20-30% increase in our Moderna allocation. That increase isn’t reflected in these timelines. If that’s true, that will increase our ability to move through educators and seniors faster."