Missouri state health director speaks on vaccine plan
Missouri hopes to give its first doses of a coronavirus vaccine in a couple of weeks.
The plan is to get the vaccine to front line health care workers first at more than a dozen sites across the state.
State Health Director Dr. Randall Williams spoke about the plan, and how many people they hope to get the vaccine.
"I believe by the end of January if you go to our website that we will have been able to vaccinate probably about 250,000 to 300,000 people. Obviously, we hope all of these people want to get vaccinated. It's everybody that works in a hospital not just people in healthcare. All their staff, all of our long term care facility staff."
Dr. Williams spoke on what the next few months might look like with vaccine approval.
"We think we will have four vaccines by February and March, to allocate to them then we think by late April, early May we move to phase three which will be three million Missourians and my great hope is by August we will be at 70% to 80% of vaccinations or natural immunity that would get us to herd immunity."
Dr. Williams then commented on what the fall might look like if people get vaccinated.
"So what I told the governor today it is my great hope that by August and time for school to start, universities, conventions, those types of activities, sports that we will be in a much better place in Missouri."
