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OGDEN, Utah — The Davis County Health Department will begin administering COVID-19 vaccines to residents 70-years-old and above starting Tuesday. This comes after some early issues with getting people vaccination appointments. The wait list turns into appointments The department opened registration for older residents on Friday. According to officials, 3,048 people were initially able to register, although many others were unable to get an appointment. “We were getting so many calls,” says Trevor Warner, Communications Director for the Davis County Health Department. “We took over 14,000 calls on Friday.” Department officials later started logging information for all the residents attempting to make…

OGDEN, Utah – In Northern Utah, it’s a high demand and low supply for the elderly looking to get the COVID-19 vaccine. There are more people wanting to get vaccinated, and not enough doses to go around. 1500 slots filled up in just 20 minutes to get the Pfizer vaccine, according to the Bear River Health Department spokesperson, Josh Greer. Will social distancing end with a vaccine?  “So we definitely have more of a demand than we have a supply right now, the health department has been getting on average 2000 total doses a week,” said Greer. Last week, the Bear River…