Provo hospital tries to give 1900 doses 1900 COVID-19 vaccine

Provo hospital tries to give 1900 doses 1900 COVID-19 vaccine

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The doses of the Pfizer vaccine will not go unnoticed, a Utah County Department of Health spokesman said.

(Thanks to University of Utah Health) A vial with the Pfizer / BioNTech version of the COVID-19 vaccine.

| 11 February 2021, 23:56 nm

| Updated: February 12, 2021, 01:11

A Provo hospital contains about 1,900 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine it needs to get in the arms of humans.

Officials from Provo’s Utah Valley Hospital have told neighbors that if there are people 70 or older who can come to Provo by Friday afternoon, a survey of the Pfizer vaccine is available.
People can sign up for an appointment by going to the Utah County Department of Health website: https://healthevents.utahcounty.gov/.
Lance Madigan, spokeswoman for Intermountain Healthcare, said the hospital had scheduled appointments for Utah County residents to get the shots, but many slots were unfinished.

‘We do not know if everyone who wants it has already got it or that it is a technological problem – because it is [people] 70-plus and we ask people to register [online] before they come, ”Madigan said.

Utah County Department of Health spokeswoman Aislynn Tolman-Hill said her agency noticed a decline in the number of appointments for the vaccine last week. “We are actually starting to see that we are hitting the end of the 70s crowd that we are trying to vaccinate,” she said.

Tolman-Hill, Utah County, also has a stake in ‘vaccine vaccinations’ – people who ‘want to see what happens, how it goes for everyone’ before they get the chance.

Salt Lake County Department of Health spokesman Nicholas Rupp said his office became aware of the available doses on Thursday. The Salt Lake County agency began calling people on the waiting lists for vaccinations and asking if any of them could drive to Provo and get a chance.

Madigan, hospital staff in Provo, is working to prepare ‘just enough to meet the demand as it came so that we would limit our waste as much as possible. … We will come up with a process. It will not be dumped. ”

“They do not take doses out of the freezer unless they know the appointments are already being made,” Tolman-Hill said.

The Pfizer vaccine must be stored at super-cold temperatures, and pharmacists usually thaw vials if they know the vaccine will be used.

Rupp said officials in his agency were discussing moving the doses of Provo to a vaccination center in Salt Lake County. They chose against the move, Rupp said, “because we’re already full of who we manned, and everything we’re up to [Friday and Saturday] on our current sites. ”

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