Vaccine shortage impedes northeast Georgia inoculations

Prisma Health of South Carolina, along with the public health department serving northeast Georgia, and the state of New Jersey, among others, share a common distinction.  Their providers of COVID-19 vaccines have exhausted their supplies or are running dangerously low.  Georgia’s District Two Public has stopped making appointments for the time being.  Toccoa Radio WNEG quotes the department spokesman as saying those who have already made appointments, however, will still be able to keep them.  The reason being the department of public health budgeted enough vaccines to fulfill appointments for both the first and second doses.  Georgia pharmacies are a different story.  The DPH’s Dave Palmer says drug stories across the state quickly gave out all of their vaccines, without holding any back for patients to get the second dose.  So, Georgia, like other locations, await the next allocation.