West Virginia governor on state's success distributing vaccines
Published Date: 1/28/2021
Source: CNBC Television
Governor Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) discusses his state's success at distributing the vaccine and getting it into the arms of its citizens. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice lauded his state’s coronavirus vaccine distribution success, and claimed that if the Mountain State had the “doses by Valentine’s Day, every person in this state, 65 years of age and older, would be vaccinated.” West Virginia has spent the past three weeks as either the number one or number two state in the nation for vaccine doses administered per capita, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 Vaccination Tracker. The state also boasts a first dose administration rate of 95.2% and a second dose vaccination rate of 46.8%, according to vaccine data posted to West Virginia’s Covid-19 dashboard Wednesday. Justice broke down his state’s “all in” approach for distributing the Covid vaccine on CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” “We didn’t necessarily take the federal approach, we took a practical approach, and we took an all in approach,” Justice said during a Wednesday evening interview. “We brought our National Guard, our local pharmacies, our local health care people, and our local health clinics and everything.” Justice added that the West Virginia model “isn’t rocket science, this is just about moving and not sitting back and planning a strategy.”