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There continues to be a very short supply of vaccines in Minnesota if you want one with about 35,000 doses being available to seniors this week. If you already signed up for the state’s vaccine pilot program, you do not need to take any further action, as they will be continuing to draw names for the state’s community vaccination sites. Those who were not able to get on the waitlist should reach out to healthcare providers directly to see about scheduling a vaccine. You can find the list of vaccine providers here: Find Vaccine Providers
There is still a limited amount of vaccine available, so appointment options are variable at each of these sites.
Of the 918,000 seniors in our state, only 12% have received a vaccine. Seniors are at the highest risk for illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID, and need to be the priority in our State’s distribution plan. Minnesota has been allocated 444,166 vaccine doses and only 25% of those have gone to Minnesota’s seniors. The rest have gone to everything from prisoners to teachers to zoo workers. Minnesota’s seniors are more at risk than any of these groups and 90% of Minnesota’s deaths from COVID have come from the 65 and up population. They need to be prioritized as such. At the rate we are vaccinating, it will take another 16 weeks to vaccinate all of our seniors.
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