Saline County Emergency Management Agency Director Tony Day was at the meeting of the county commission on Tuesday, January 26, and explained why the vaccine supply chain is slow right now.

Day said it started out that rural counties were supposed to get the Moderna vaccine. However, that was reallocated to pharmacies to administer to longterm-care facilities.

Day says Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall now has a cooler to handle all of the vaccine for the county.

Day says there also are shortages of the bottles for the vaccine, PPE for personnel administering the vaccines and the needles. He added supply is not what they said it was going to be.

Day explains his role.

Day- being a first responder as Marshall Fire Chief and E.M.A. Director- said he received his second dose of vaccine recently, and has had no side effects. But he said the vaccine affects some folks differently than others. He said the earliest people can receive the second shot is 21 days after the first of the two-dose requirement. He said if you miss the date for your second dose, go ahead and get it on another day. he said they told him, the vaccine still will be effective.