Oregon Health Agents Give COVID Vaccine to Roadside Drivers After Snowstorm Blocks and Medicines Approached
- The workers were returning from a vaccination event
- The doses were intended for others, but would have expired by the time they reached their destination due to the snowstorm.
- A county ambulance was present in case of emergency during vaccinations
- Oregon has so far administered more than 340,000 coronavirus vaccines
Oregon health workers who were stuck in a snowstorm on their return from a COVID-19 vaccination event drove into the car injecting blocked drivers before several doses expired.
Josephine County Public Health said on Facebook that the “makeshift vaccine clinic” took place after about 20 employees were stopped in traffic on a highway after an vaccination clinic at Illinois Valley High School.
Six of the vaccines were about to expire, so the workers decided to offer them to other stranded drivers.
The images were intended for other people in Grants Pass, but “the snow meant that these doses would not reach them before they expired,” the health department said.
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While returning from a vaccine clinic, vaccinated health workers were caught in the snow
Josephine County Public Health posted about the amazing tower of events on Facebook
Not wanting to scatter them, the staff went from vehicle to vehicle, giving people a chance to receive the vaccine. A county ambulance was on hand for safety.
All doses were administered, including one to an employee of County Sheriff Josephine’s office who arrived too late for the vaccination clinic but ended up stopping with the others, officials said.
Josephine County Public Health Director Mike Weber said it was one of “the strongest operations he had been involved in.”
While six doses may not seem like much, each vaccination counts in the battle of COVID-19.
Overall, six people received the COVID-19 vaccine while waiting for the snowstorm
Josephine County Public Health Director Mike Weber called it “the coolest operation.”
According to a dashboard updated by the Oregon Health Authority, 340,359 vaccination doses were administered in the state by the end of Tuesday.
To date, only 50,587 people in the state are fully vaccinated, which means they have received both doses of coronavirus vaccine.
Just this week, child care workers and those working in a K-12 school became eligible to receive the vaccine in Oregon.
Oregon has had 139,355 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Of these, 1,904 succumbed to the virus.
Oregon has administered more than 340,000 vaccines as they face 1,904 COVID-19 deaths
The United States has exceeded 25.5 million COVID-19 cases and more than 428,000 deaths
In the United States, there were over 25.5 million cases of COVID-19, the death toll to 428,654 people and rising.
The focus of Joe Biden’s administration has been on vaccinating as many people as possible.
The president’s goal was to manage 100 million photos in 100 days.
On Tuesday, the White House announced an increase in vaccine distribution to 10 million over the next three weeks, as well as the purchase of another 200 million vaccines that will be delivered over the summer.