DOVER, Del.- Through six days of the FEMA vaccine event, more doses were left over.
There was enough for about 2,500 appointments Saturday at Dover International Speedway. The state chose to invite teachers, daycare workers, and other child care providers in Phase 1B to sign up and receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Delaware Governor John Carney and other Delaware officials were on site today to check on how operations were going. He says targeting child care workers and starting their vaccinations should make more kids coming back to school closer to reality.
"This gives teachers and educators greater comfort to go back and we targeted those that are a little bit older, those that have health conditions, and those that work with children with disabilities," Carney said.
Delaware Emergency Management Agency Director A.J. Schall says people should expect more vaccination events to happen at the speedway with one coming up in late March.
"We will be back out here on the twentieth for the second doses for this group right here," Schall said. "And then, we are hoping to put a few days on one way or the other if the vaccine allows to do more people and that will probably be first doses."
Schall added that this week’s event came up just short of the 18,000 dose target due to people not showing up for appointments. The state remains under fifty percent for first doses in Phase 1B, but these bigger events should help to keep getting vaccines into arms as long as the supply is available.