||| FROM BRENDAN COWAN for DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT |||
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
The release of vaccine appointments for San Juan County Health & Community Services events
has been delayed until 9 a.m. on Monday February 8.
WA Department of Health (DOH) has delayed their regularly scheduled Friday release of vaccine allocation numbers to vaccine providers across Washington. This disruption to the usual notification schedule prevents San Juan County from being able to schedule vaccine appointments for the coming week.
NOTE: those who are receiving their second doses will NOT be impacted by this situation.
Impacts to other island providers’ vaccine efforts are unknown at this time. Those providers will update patients and others directly.
Hopefully shipment details are received over the weekend, and appointments for San Juan County vaccine events next week can be released on Monday February 8 at 9 a.m. According to DOH, the cause is due to vaccine providers (not in San Juan County) delivering second doses as first doses,
thus disrupting the statewide supply chain.
At this time there is no guarantee from DOH as to what number of doses will be available for next week
Your patience is appreciated. San Juan County Health & Community Services
will be standing by to deliver first doses as soon as supplies allow.
Please continue to monitor the San Juan County Vaccine Page for updated information, but NO appointments will be released before 9 a.m. on Monday Feb. 8.
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Lin — could you possibly turn these vaccine-related updates into red blinking “alert” headers at Top of Page or something so they are easy to detect? With the new layout of Orcasonian I have a hard time finding what’s the latest, and I think I’m not the only one.
As far as trying to get a vaccine appointment, I think the County has bested the WSF reservation system in terms of assuring near impossibility of getting an appointment. I think I’ll start trying again in April or May. Sigh.
Definitely something to consider, Tracy.