The Public Health Division said after Saturday’s vaccination event that screening will be “tightened” for vaccination events on Sunday and Monday, as well as those not in state priority phase 1A, which is limited to health workers and long-term care residents. and personally, they could be rejected.
It is unclear how ineligible people were allowed to receive the vaccine at Saturday’s Dover Automobile Division event. Carney’s office billed the event as a Phase 1A vaccination clinic, as “Delaware sprints” for vaccinating Phase 1A people.
Officials said earlier that phase 1B, which targets key frontline workers and people aged 65 and over, was expected to begin by the end of the month.
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“We are still in Group 1a, and today’s vaccines should be given to health workers and first responders,” House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf said on Saturday.
“Several people passed by and should have been challenged, but they were not primarily because the vaccination staff is made up of volunteers and they did not have access to a database to check if they were the first to respond,” he said. added Schwartzkopf. “Others arrived and got vaccinated because their friends … called them or posted online and told them to come get vaccinated because they got theirs.”
Near the end of the event, the number of first responders who arrived slowed down, so the decision was made to try to reach some people aged 65 or older, “Schwartzkopf said in the post.
“The organizers wanted to use all the vaccine they had, so they dived into group 1b and made Modern Maturity bring over 100 seniors,” he wrote, referring to a community center for seniors in Dover.
Andrea Wojcik, a spokeswoman for the Public Health Division, said in an email on Sunday that to test the logistics and vaccination process of the population aged 65 and older, once the state moves to phase 1B and to use the available doses of the vaccine, DPH has asked a small number of organizations with members of older citizens to come to vaccination events in Dover by Monday.
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Wojcik said in a later e-mail that the technology tested is for the registration and management of vaccinations while driving through clinics.
“Misinformation has spread through social media and word of mouth, which has led some people to go out and cross the line,” she wrote.
Wojcik did not explain why officials did not announce the test in advance or when they invited groups of seniors to participate.
“The selected group aged 65 and over was included to help test a technology project that will be used to record and process vaccinations in the next phase,” Wojcik wrote. “Also, due to the increased risk of allergic reactions and the medical history involved, it may take longer to process a person aged 65 or older through the vaccination process, including potentially longer observation times after administration. vaccine, and DPH wanted to review that effect on the clinical driving process, again in preparation for the next phase.
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