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COVID-19 vaccines: CDC asks hospitals to offer shots at discharge

Include COVID-19 vaccination status as part of your emergency room triage and medical history, and educate clinicians on how to address vaccine hesitancy.

The CDC is encouraging hospitals and urgent care centers to step up outreach to vulnerable patient populations by offering COVID-19 vaccinations to patients at discharge from emergency departments (ED).

The agency is also asking jurisdictions to allocate portions of their vaccine supplies to hospitals and urgent care centers to carry out the effort. However, jurisdictions will not be provided extra vaccine doses, according to a CDC fact sheet.

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