GoLocal Daily RI Vaccination Update: RI Has Utilized 44% of Its Vaccine, According to CDC

GoLocal Daily RI Vaccination Update: RI Has Utilized 44% of Its Vaccine, According to CDC

Sunday's GoLocal vaccination update provides the most up-to-date information and data on the Rhode Island vaccination program as well as emerging national and global developments.

1. RI Has Utilized 44% of Vaccine

According to the CDC and updated on Friday, RI has now:

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Received 108,427 doses — an increase of 24,302 over Thursday

Administered 47,548 doses (less than 3,000 administered in past 24-hours)

Of the vaccine doses received, RI has utilized 44% —a drop from 53%.*

*NO CHANGE IN NUMBERS SINCE SATURDAY

 

 

2. Israel's Global Leading Vaccination Program Is Already Making Big Impact

"Initial data from Israel’s vaccination campaign shows that Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine curbs infections by some 50 percent 14 days after the first of two shots is administered, a top Health Ministry official said Tuesday, as the country’s serious COVID-19 cases, daily infections and total active cases all reach all-time peaks," according to The Times of Israel.

Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of the Health Ministry’s public health department, [said] that the data was preliminary, and based on the results of coronavirus tests among both those who’ve received the vaccine and those who haven’t...according to figures released by Clalit, Israel’s largest health provider, the chance of a person being infected with the coronavirus dropped by 33% 14 days after they were vaccinated."

 

3. RI Has No Plan Yet for Vaccinating 75+ or 65+ Yet

The Rhode Island Department of Health has yet to announce when Rhode Islanders over the age of 65+ or 75+ will be vaccinated according to a press briefing held on Friday.

 

 

4. Slow Going at Nursing Homes

The New York Times is reporting that "a month later, vaccinations of some of the country’s most vulnerable citizens are going more slowly than many state officials, industry executives and families expected. Their hopes had been buoyed when government officials said long-term care facilities would be at the front of the line for vaccines. CVS and Walgreens, which are largely responsible for vaccinating residents and workers in long-term care facilities, are on track to make at least initial vaccination visits to nearly all nursing homes they are working with by Jan. 25. The two pharmacy chains have already given out more than 1.7 million vaccine doses at long-term care facilities."

"But the progress is uneven across the country and not nearly as comprehensive for different types of long-term care. For example, thousands of assisted living facilities — for older people who need less care than those in nursing homes — do not yet even have an appointment for their first visit from the pharmacy teams, in large part because states have given such facilities lower priority in their vaccine-distribution plans," reports the Times.

 

 

5. RIDOH Continues to Refuse to Provide Information

The RI Department of Health continues to refuse to provide data as to how many Rhode Islanders need to be vaccinated.