U.S. Indigenous Communities Start Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines
FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Indigenous communities in the United States have began receiving COVID-19 vaccines from federal and state organizations.
The preliminary aim of the federal government’s Indian Wellbeing Service is to vaccinate wellness treatment employees at sovereign Indigenous country clinics nationwide and city clinics that present treatment for off-reservation Indigenous Us residents, the Connected Push described.
The agency obtained about 22,000 vaccine doses Monday at distribution centers on the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico and in cities this sort of as Phoenix, where vaccinations ended up given Thursday to hundreds of wellness care employees who treatment for Indigenous People.
Other tribes will obtain vaccine deliveries through state health and fitness organizations, the AP described.
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