More people will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccination beginning March 15, including teachers, child care providers, and workers in a variety of essential industries.
Gov. Mike Parson …
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More people will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccination beginning March 15, including teachers, child care providers, and workers in a variety of essential industries.
Gov. Mike Parson announced the expanded eligibility last Friday. Warren County Health Administrator Stacey White said the directive applies to all vaccine providers, and that people can pre-register now to get in line for their vaccinations.
In fact, White said people who already registered before they were eligible will be at the front of the line once their eligibility opens.
“There have been teachers who signed up, there have been people who fit into tier 3 who signed up on the first day. They don’t lose their spot. We go back and we say now you qualify, and start calling them in the order they signed up,” White explained. “If they got in and registered right away, if they were first registered they’ll be first called.”
For that reason, it would be advantageous for those who are not yet eligible to go ahead and pre-register, in order to get an appointment sooner when they do become eligible.
White explained that everyone who is eligible for a vaccine will be treated with equal priority, no matter which priority tier they were originally in.
“All the tiers are mixed in together, so when a tier is added, those people get to sign up just like everybody else,” White said.
The health department is making vaccination appointments as vaccine doses are delivered. The allocation for the Warren County Health Department is around 100 first doses per week.
The state government has also announced that slightly more vaccine doses are going to be directed toward large hospital systems that can administer thousands of doses per week. The best thing to do to get vaccinated is to sign up with any providers that are available, White said.
The Warren County Health Department has links to its online vaccine registration and multiple other vaccine providers at www.WarrenCountyHealth.com.
Compass Health Network has also begun offering appointment-based vaccinations, but only takes registrations when vaccines are available. Check facebook.com/CompassHealthNetwork to check for announcement of upcoming vaccinations.
So far, Missouri’s statewide vaccination database estimates that 8.4 percent of Warren County residents have been vaccinated. Nearly 3,000 have received their first dose and about 1,400 have received their second.
The Missouri county with the highest vaccination rate so far is Atchison County with 22.2 percent. The lowest vaccination rate is in Pulaski County with 5.2 percent.
