Full slides:
https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Jan-5-Slides.pdf
Hogan Highlights:
Vaccine distribution will be the greatest peacetime undertaking in history
Some hospitals doing good, some are ramping up still
5 counties are at 80% or more of Phase 1 vaccines given out they have received. Includes Moco.
We will use ALL available resources to get more shots in more arms as quickly as possible
It is a long process, everyone at the state, hospitals, and local level is doing everything they can to do whatever we can to get as many vaccinated as quickly as possible.
Activated national guard to help with vaccinations starting tomorrow
700 additional qualified personnel to help expand clinics to 7 day a week operations and to hospitals whatever is needed to speed up pace of vaccinations
Letter to hospitals: https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1-4-2020-Vaccine-Letter-to-MHA.pdf
Slow and uneven data reporting makes it difficult to figure out where the issues are in distribution network.
Need to address reporting labs (Hospitals, Wallgreens, CVS – last two previous had 72 hours to respond)
Executive order all providers must provide info to immunet within 24 hours after administration
Will be publicly tracking all providers progress.
Any facility that has not allocated 75% of total first allocation may be restictred on future until they can prove they can do it
No longer waiting for all in a group before next in line
Use the doses you’ve been allocated or they will be given to someone that will use them
After initial 1A, we will be able to scale up to broader vaccination clinics across the state
States depend fully on national distribution and 2 companies for supply of vaccines
Details of phase 1A:
Details of Phase 1B
Details phase 1C
Phase 2 details:
211 Texting alerts “MdReady” to 898-211
Visit the website for more info:
https://coronavirus.maryland.gov
Please be patient and wait your turn. Skipping the line makes process slower and is wrong.
Went over hospitalizations, focus was on that there are many less deaths per hospitalization
New variant is a concern and they are looking out for that, it is not been reported in our state yet
200 personnel and 14 teams from National Guard to help with vaccinations