![]() ![]() David Barbe, the vice president of primary care at Mercy in southwest Missouri, said patients should fill out the interest forms to ensure that once vaccine doses become available, people will be notified so they can set up an appointment. Pokin Around: Ed Fox, 98 year-old Marine, volunteers to show nothing to fear about vaccineīut both Casad and Dr. ![]() In southwest Missouri as a whole, Casad estimated there were about 250,000 people eligible to receive the vaccine in the latest tier of eligibility, so it will also take some time before everyone will be able to get one. ![]() “We’ve been getting 3,000-plus phone calls a day just about the vaccine, but at the end of the day, we just don’t know yet how much we are getting.” “We want to communicate with the public (when they may be able to get the vaccine), but we just don’t have the information to do that,” said Ashley Casad, CoxHealth’s vice president of clinical services. That supply chain also means that local health providers often can’t predict how many doses are coming and when, leaving their patients to also wait for more information. Vaccines are currently distributed after approved local providers put in an order to the state, which then receives an allotted number of doses from the federal government and distributes some amount to the providers who requested one.īut that number coming to the state has been somewhat unreliable, especially in recent months, when states reported receiving significantly fewer doses than expected from the federal government. Part of the issue has to do with the supply chain. ![]() At some providers, there isn't any available at all. There isn’t enough COVID vaccines available right now, so leaders are urging patienceĪll of those developments and portals are good news, but there’s a big caveat: Right now, there is not enough vaccine available to cover everyone currently eligible to receive one. More: Missouri to start vaccinating 1st responders, at-risk individuals for COVID-19 2. The state also announced earlier this week it would set up vaccination sites across Missouri capable of administering up to 2,500 vaccines per day, though it is unclear where one would be established southwest Missouri and when it would open. Jordan Valley, which is partnering with local health departments to distribute vaccine, also has a pre-registration form at jordanvalley.rog/covid-19-vaccine. In southwest Missouri, CoxHealth, Mercy and Jordan Valley Community Health Center all launched portals online to allow people to sign up to receive a vaccine if they’re eligible.Ĭox’s pre-registration form is available at. Then, last week, the state announced it would open up vaccines to even more people, making first responders and at-risk individuals, including those over 65, eligible to receive it. Many of those people have received vaccines, though the effort will continue as more doses become available. The federal government is taking care of the long-term care folks through a partnership with Walgreens and CVS.īut the rest of that group have been covered by vaccination partners including health systems and public health departments. The first was patient-facing health care workers, paramedics and emergency services professionals as well as residents and staff in long-term care facilities. The state of Missouri has organized its vaccine rollout in a series of phases. Only some people qualify to get the COVID-19 vaccine right now ![]()
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