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To all of the people who have waited hours in the Hamilton County Health Department’s immunization line to be turned down, you must apologize.
Channel 3 had a story where there were seven people in a vehicle and all seven people were shot after others were turned away. A die occupants were heard saying they had contact inside. Even though this story turned out to be false, it really looks like the health department could keep a better count hits and honestly answer questions. This process does not work because it is only one place and undoubtedly our health the department cannot count. I hope there was no internal influence that allowed the seven people in the vehicle to be vaccinated after closing.
Come on, let’s get everyone a shot as soon as possible without playing the favorites and giving a bad excuse about the count.
Rick Mincy
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This is what the most cynical among us have been waiting for from the start. Across the country, including here in Hamilton County, the debate over “essential workers first” versus “elderly and infirm first” is a moot point; the real rule of distribution is “first well connected, you plebeians can wait”.
Politicians use the flimsy excuse of “building public confidence in the vaccine”, and now everyone in our own health department is temporarily losing the ability to count?
Anyone who thinks this is a real miscalculation, call me; I have a waterfront property in Arizona for sale, cheap.
Charles McCullough
East Ridge
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I am not a healthcare practitioner but know enough to know that injectable vials come with the dosage amount and the dosage amount in each vial. So if some workers were giving 6-7 injections from a vial of five, something was wrong.
Are the vials improperly marked or the people giving the injections do not know how to fill a syringe? It is very disturbing.
If at 70 I have the wrong dosage and think I’m relatively safe and not, then why the hell do we even have these injections? Can someone explain this to me?
I’m also quite troubled by a story in the news yesterday that a man brought his 90-year-old mother who was on oxygen and in a wheelchair. Is this how we are as a city?
Connie chadwick
East Ridge
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On Wednesday, December 30, I left my home in the Ooltewah area to get vaccinated against COVID-19. As I approach the age of 90 (and live on my own), it was no small feat in itself.
I was turned back on approaching the Highway 153 junction at Amnicola Highway by very nice and helpful Chattanooga police officers. It was later that I and many others learned that “mysteriously extra” doses of the vaccine had been found and that members of the Department of Health staff called their friends to receive them. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any friends in the health department!
It smacks of incompetence, iniquity, and possibly illegality. He should be thoroughly investigated for his failure to properly serve the people of this county. The Department of Health owes all people a regional service.
Philip J. Gross
CDR US Navy (Retired)
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As a Hamilton County resident who stood in line for my vaccine on Wednesday, I would like to express my deep sense of gratitude. During my two hour experience, I felt well informed and cared for by the employees of the Department of Health.
The staff I encountered were constantly on their feet, moving through the long lines of cars, providing public health in the midst of a global pandemic with kindness and good humor towards thousands of citizens.
They have provided a life-saving vaccine on short notice to many in our community, while others across the country are still waiting. I am thankful and grateful that more in our county are vaccinated next week.
Becky williams
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