The government didn't say how much it was investing in the project. with 50 million doses of the vaccines if they are approved by regulators and that it would manufacture the shots in Britain. government announced Friday that it plans to work with a German biopharmaceutical company to develop vaccines targeting emerging variants of COVID-19 as public health officials call for new tools to keep the virus in check as it mutates.Īs part of the deal, Tuebingen, Germany-based CureVac said it would supply the U.K. “Our efforts will not stop there,” Goodell wrote to Biden in extending the offer on stadiums.īiden took office last month with a goal of vaccinating 100 million people in the first 100 days of his administration. Kansas City is playing Tampa Bay in the Buccaneers' home stadium.
Goodell said the offer on vaccination sites was made in conjunction with the NFL inviting 7,500 vaccinated health care workers to attend the Super Bowl for free Sunday.
“We look forward to further discussion with your administration as well as your partners in state and local governments to advance this effort,” Goodell wrote to Biden in a letter dated Thursday. The seven clubs already using their stadiums as vaccine sites are Arizona, Atlanta, Baltimore, Carolina, Houston, Miami and New England. In a letter to President Joe Biden obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said many of the stadiums should be able to get vaccination efforts moving quickly because of previous offers to use stadiums as virus testing centers and election sites. (AP) The NFL is telling the federal government it will make the remaining of the league's 30 stadiums available as COVID-19 vaccination sites, joining the seven facilities already administering the vaccine. “The fact of the matter is the federal supply has now improved such that we think we are going to be able to be through 75% of everybody who is eligible now, including seniors, which is about 1.3 million people by early April,” Allen said. 8 may draw pandemonium, health officials did have good news - the state is ahead of the original projected vaccine timeline projection.
Along with mass vaccination sites, vaccines will also be administered to local practices and public health facilities, drive-thru centers and mobile sites. In addition, health officials are distributing information to clinics, home care agencies and advocacy groups. “We are trying to surround the people, who help seniors, with the information they need so that if the seniors themselves aren’t able to navigate the systems – the people around them know what to do,” Allen said. The online tool is where caregivers or family members of Oregon seniors can to sign up their elderly family member for a vaccine. While 211info, Oregon and Southwest Washington’s information referral line for health and human services, is available, the health authority is launching an additional online tool on Monday. In total by early March, around 700,000 seniors in Oregon will be eligible for the vaccine.Īllen said the Oregon Health Authority has been working with counties to make sure seniors have access to the vaccine, although signing up for an appointment will vary from community to community. “In New York seniors who signed up for vaccine appointments had them rescinded due to lack of supply.”
“Every state has had challenges with the vaccine rollout,” Brown said. Brown said Oregon's phased approach for the elderly will help avoid the “nightmare” of extensive lines and wait times occurring in other states. Oregon officials opted to prioritize teachers before the elderly for COVID vaccinations in an attempt to get children back to in-person learning faster. Lastly, the week of March 1, seniors 65 and older will be eligible. 22, seniors 70 and older will be eligible. 15, seniors 75 and older will be eligible eligible.
8, Oregonians who are 80 or older will be eligible for the vaccine. We are going to have scheduling systems that are going to be hard to get appointments.”īeginning Feb. “We are probably going to have phone lines that are hard to get through on. “It’s probably going to be pretty chaotic here,” Director Patrick Allen told The Associated Press Thursday night. Kate Brown announced Friday that 30 additional National Guard members will be deployed to help field calls and texts from seniors signing up and seeking information on vaccinations. In preparation for the drastic increase of eligible people, Gov. (AP) Oregon health officials say they are expecting chaos next week, when about 167,000 people who are 80 years or older will become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.