According to a new tracker introduced by state health officials, just over 20,000 of Alabama’s 128,175 allocations of COVID-19 vaccines were administered.
The new public health department dashboard in Alabama shows that the state administered 8,986 vaccinations for the week ending Dec. 20 and another 11,368 for the week ending Dec. 27. The rest was from Moderna. Vaccines are administered at 90 locations across the state.
The information here is part of ADPH’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution panel.
The state is currently in the first phase of distributing vaccines covering frontline health workers and those living or working in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. The state’s initial vaccine allocation will cover less than half of the 300,000 Alabamis who fall into the first category.
Additional allotments of the vaccines – both of which require two doses at approximately 21-28 days apart – are expected to arrive weekly. ADPH said it will be posted on its website when the vaccine pool is expanded.
‘We want to manage people’s expectations in the right way and remind the public that not everyone currently has access to vaccine. For the New Year holidays and beyond, I encourage people to please stay at home and keep their events short, outside if possible, and only with everyone who wears masks, ”said Dr. Scott Harris, state health officer, said.
ADPH has no specific timetable for when members of the general public can be vaccinated.