Board of Aldermen 01-12-2021 Page 10
So | guess | can only say how much | know as much as anyone else reads in the papers, but that’s what
we have recently heard through the Dartmouth System that we didn’t get what we thought but we are going
to still make it work as much as we can. But the rest of it I'd probably ask Bobbie if she can comment on
any other roll out of vaccine that she knows.
Director Bagley
Thank you Dr. Cappetta. So with the expectation of the allocation per State, has turned out to be a little
differently than what was expected. But with what we have received, what our State is trying to do is roll
the vaccine out to our regions according to the risk factors that have been identified and according to some
of the data that shows where the highest rates of cases are and the highest rates of deaths are occurring.
The importance of using a strategy to vaccinate those that are highest risk led our State to stick to the
allocation of making sure our healthcare workers and first response were vaccinated first because that will
help us preserve our workforce and then followed by those populations that are at highest risk for
hospitalizations and death were key in the strategy of vaccine allocation.
They are doing it be regions and so each region gets to send to the State on a weekly basis how much
vaccine they actually think they can get into arms because they don’t to waste vaccine. And so as Clinics
are planned, we have our fixed site clinic over at Nashua High South. What happens is that folks go in and
they register, they get a certain number of people registered and then they do the vaccinations based on
how many people have registered for that particular site for that day. The opportunity to expand clinics is
coming on quickly because there is an expectation that there is going to be a large number of vaccine that
is going to be distributed across the country within the next couple of weeks to catch up because the Feds
do realize that that rollout did not turn out the way that they expected. And so more vaccine will be coming
to New Hampshire as well as to other States as well.
And then as that does occur, there’s going to be a pick up in the clinics that are scheduled across the State
as well and vaccine will be made available at different places. So Primary Care Providers, once they are
onboarded, once they are set up in the system, will be able to administer vaccinations. We at the Health
Department, because we are the lead for our Public Health Region and Greater Nashua Region, we will be
able to do more clinics. And all of the planning around this has started to kick off. In fact | got a call from
the State just this evening asking what did we need at our Health Department to start planning some of
these clinics. And so that discussion was a good discussion and so we will be working with our partners at
our Federally Qualified Health Center, you know, like Dartmouth, Harbor Homes, Lamprey and we will be
getting some clinic sites set up. We have had some of the Churches in our community volunteer some of
their sites as well. And we’ve had some volunteers actually get in contact with us that are nurses and
physicians that are retired that will help. And so we should see something within the next 2 to 4 weeks kind
of expand and take off relatively quickly.
President Wilshire
Does anyone else have questions? Alderman Klee?
Alderman Klee
Thank you, Madam President. This question is more directed to Director Bagley. Director Bagley at last
night’s Human Affairs Committee Meeting you mentioned about setting up these clinics and so on and the
registry that will be having for this next phase, kind of the revamping of the registry. And | asked you a
question at that time about would the vaccines be given at primary care offices and so on. | was contacted
by someone from a primary care office today who told me that they don’t have the resources. If that’s the
case, two questions here, can the City pick up that slack. And my next question is how do those who go
into the 1B category, how would they register, how would that be? | know the registration isn’t out yet but
how will they notify, will it be on our City’s Website or will it be on the State’s Website?
