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East Oregonian
Thursday, October 22, 2020
COVID-19 vaccines could arrive soon in Oregon
Health departments
will likely have
little say about who
will get fi rst round
of vaccines
SALEM — State health
offi cials could distribute
the fi rst doses of COVID-
19 vaccinations as early as
the end of this month if it’s
approved by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration.
But those vaccines will
most likely be reserved for
health care and other essen-
tial workers, who will be the
fi rst to receive them, accord-
ing to a plan submitted by
the Oregon Health Author-
ity to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Nationwide, states were
required to submit their
vaccination
plans by Fri-
day,
Oct.
23, accord-
ing to the
CDC. States
have about
two weeks
Fiumara
to
estab-
lish distri-
bution systems to meet a
CDC Nov. 1 deadline. It is
unknown when the vaccines
will be approved, said Jona-
than Modie, Oregon Health
Authority spokesman.
State health offi cials
assume that vaccine sup-
plies will be limited at fi rst
and “should be focused on
individuals critical to the
pandemic response, provide
direct care and maintain
societal function, as well
as those at highest risk for
developing severe illness,”
Modie said in an email.
Umatilla County Pub-
lic Health Director Joe Fiu-
mara said Monday, Oct.
19, that local health depart-
ments will likely have little
say in who the COVID vac-
cine will be available to, but
the state has indicated there
will likely be a three-tiered
distribution plan.
“Those are things the
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Health Research Institute in Seattle. The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine test got underway on July 27, 2020, with the fi rst
of 30,000 planned volunteers. The experimental vaccine is made by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., and
it’s one of several candidates in the fi nal stretch of the global vaccine race.
states are negotiating about,
the feds are negotiating
about, and we kind of just
get told,” he said. “We kind
of get told who it can go to,
and then we have to fi nd a
way to do it.”
Topping the list of who
will receive the vaccine
are medical professionals,
essential workers, long-term
care facilities, people with
underlying health condi-
tions, people older than 65,
ethnic and racial minorities,
tribal communities, prison-
ers, homeless, colleges and
universities, people living in
group settings, people with
disabilities and people with-
out insurance, according to
the OHA plan, which was
obtained by The Bend Bul-
letin on Oct. 19 by fi ling a
Freedom of Information
Act.
The second tier will
likely be an expansion on
individuals like teachers or
those who meet other crite-
ria that ele vates their risk to
COVID-19 and aren’t cov-
ered in the fi rst tier, accord-
ing to Fiumara. The third
tier would be for any mem-
ber of the public who wants
the vaccine.
“How long it takes us
to get from one all the way
through two and to three,
we don’t know,” he said.
“And that second tier is
really going to be the tricky
one.”
The Food and Drug
Administration has autho-
rized the use of two vac-
cines under an Emergency
Use Authorization, but it is
unknown if both drugs or
just one will be approved.
In the 136-page Ore-
gon plan, the state out-
lines its preparations for
two main scenarios for vac-
cine release: One would be
if the state receives a min-
imal order of 1,000 doses
or a large volume comes
through.
Expanded face-
covering rules
Until the vaccine is
widely distributed, Oregon
offi cials on Oct. 19 expanded
the state’s face-covering
guidance to include pri-
vate and public workplaces,
classrooms, offi ces, meet-
ing rooms and workspaces,
unless someone is alone
in an offi ce or in a private
workspace, according to
health offi cials.
The revised guidance
requires that people wear
face coverings in out-
door and indoor markets,
street fairs, private career
schools and public and pri-
vate colleges and universi-
ties. Wearing a face cover-
ing instead of a face shield
is recommended with the
exception of limited situ-
ations, such as communi-
cating with someone who
is deaf or hearing impaired
and needs to read lips.
The best way to ward
against the spread of
COVID-19 is to wear a face
covering, maintain a 6-foot
physical distance from oth-
ers, avoid large gatherings,
frequent handwashing and
limit social gatherings.
When the vaccine is
available, much of the state’s
plan will follow procedures
put in place in 2009 during
the H1N1 pandemic, accord-
ing to the plan.
Umatilla County was
planning to use public distri-
bution of this year’s fl u vac-
cine as a test run for eventu-
ally distributing the COVID
vaccine. But Fiumara said
the county is still awaiting
the arrival of the 2,500 fl u
vaccine doses it asked the
state for last month.
“We were hoping to use
some of the fl u (vaccine) as
some practice for how these
methods and procedures are
going to work,” he said.
In September, Umatilla
County approved the pur-
chase of three canopies for
$20,660.10 and the expan-
sion of a nursing position
from part time to full time
for a cost of $62,562.
Those purchases were
made with the idea that the
canopies can be used for
large-scale public vacci-
nation events, even during
inclement weather, while
the expanded nursing posi-
tion gives the department
another set of hands to help
with any and all immuniza-
tion events.
Fiumara said the county
is also considering hosting
other immunization events
that could be used to pre-
pare for an eventual corona-
virus vaccine.
“We might be doing a
couple of events where it’ll
be all of the school-required
immunizations, and hope-
fully the fl u if we get it, as
a way for us to work some
kinks out of the process
and get some vaccines out
there,” he said.
———
East Oregonian reporter
Alex Castle contributed to
this report.
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