posted by Jackson Revere
While speaking on NPR with reporter Sarah Mccammon, Northam shed some light on the timeline of when he expects Virginians to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Northam said that they will be receiving about 70,000 doses to start. “That’s why we will be going to those that are most susceptible – our health care workers and also those individuals that work and live in our long-term care facilities.”
The Governor then went more in-depth on what the plan is to distribute the vaccine to the rest of the residents in Virginia. “Then we’ll go into phase two, which will be a lot of frontline workers – for example, teachers, food preparers, those types of things,” said Northam. “And then the phase three will be the general population and hopefully by, you know, early to mid-summer have everybody in Virginia vaccinated.”
You can listen to the entire six minute interview with NPR below:
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