…and some of our friends hadn’t been vaccinated and we didn’t want to throw it out.
“We have connections,” one man said.
‘Chattanooga COVID-19 vaccine
administrators gave doses to close contacts hours after qualified citizens were
turned away’
From WBIR News
CHATTANOOGA,
Tenn. — Hamilton County officials say miscalculations led to late-evening
vaccinations in the Tennessee Riverpark in Chattanooga on New Year’s Eve, long
after people were turned away and told there were no more vaccines available.
There was
a huge turnout, with long lines of cars waiting to access the park and many
people being turned away.
According to WRCB, they
acted on a tip and returned to Riverpark after dark to find cars leaving the
property. The people in those vehicles told WRCB family members or friends who
were helping to administer the vaccines called to tell them there were extra
doses and they should come to receive a dose.
“We have
connections,” exclaimed one driver when asked how he was able to get a vaccine.
The driver told WRCB all
seven people in the vehicle received a vaccination. It’s not clear if those
individuals met the CDC or the Health Department's criteria to receive this
round of available vaccines.
“At the
end of the day we had more vaccine doses than we had anticipated,” said
Hamilton County Health Department Administrator Becky Barnes, in a written statement to WRCB. “Because
they had been thawed and prepared they had to be given by the end of the day.
Our intent is to never waste any doses and we did not waste any Thursday.”
Hamilton
County Mayor Jim Coppinger told WRCB that
when officials realized they had vials left to be used at the end of the day,
staff members "called people who were known to have requested the vaccine,
or who had been unable to be vaccinated at a previously scheduled time. They
wanted to make sure that none of it would go to waste.”
Listen. There is them and us. One of them tells us to stay at home and then goes off on a sunny vacation. One of them blocks off Times Square to us and then dances with his wife in the same Square. One of them tells us not to have anybody over for Thanksgiving and then gets on an airplane and flies to another state for dinner with his family.
There are dozens of stories of
elected officials and those appointed over us doing the exact things that would
bring fines and jail time to us. They consider only their own kind. We are not
their kind.
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