Due to a shortage of COVID-19 vaccine supplies, Cobb and Douglas Public Health said Friday that it was temporarily “interrupting” the appointments to the public.
Since early January, the health agency has been releasing appointments every Friday the following week, preferring health workers, first responders and people of age. 65 and older.
But the latest update, which does not specify when vaccinations can resume, indicated that current stocks will only increase in March or April.
In a message on his website, Cobb and Douglas Public Health also said that those who have previously scheduled an appointment for a first or second dose will not be affected by this change unless you have been contacted. “
The agency said that when more appointments are available, it will be posted on the website and social media accounts.
In its status update on Friday—you can read it by clicking here—Cobb and Douglas Public Health said it was administered 14,000 doses of COVID vaccines since early January, including 11,896 at Jim Miller Park in Marietta.
But only 410 doses were given to Jim Miller on Friday, compared to nearly 700 distributed on Monday. The figure was provided to Cobb commissioners by Cobb and director Jan Public, Douglas Public Health, in a briefing Tuesday.
In her remarks, Memark said the agency “prioritizes second doses” and that “if we have extra, we will plan a first dose.”
But over the course of the week, the available vaccine doses started to run out.
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are given by Cobb and Douglas Public Health, who are hopeful that they will soon receive the Astra Zeneca and Johnson and Johnson vaccines. The latter is a single dose vaccine.
As of Saturday, there have been 50,173 confirmed COVID cases in Cobb County since March 17 from PCR tests and 11,923 more from antigen tests.
A total of 693 people have since died in Cobb, and 38 have been reported since Monday. This includes 13 deaths reported on Wednesday and 12 on Thursday.
The case’s rate is starting to drop slightly in Cobb, as well as the community distribution figures. As of Saturday, the average of 14 days per 100,000 people in the province is 661, after exceeding more than 1,000 earlier this month.
Earlier this week, Cobb and Metro Atlanta school board members and superintendents sent letters to Governor Brian Kemp asking for school staff to be prioritized for vaccines, but on Tuesday his spokesman said Kemp ‘repeatedly said – as recently as today – that if as soon as Georgia starts getting a larger vaccine supply, teachers and school staff will be included in absolutely any extensive criteria. ‘
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