[ad_1] A record number of cases and 58 other deaths related to COVID-19 were reported on December 31, the County Health and Human Services Agency announced today. With 4,478 reported cases of COVID-19, the region’s total is now 160,073. This is the first time the daily total has exceeded 4,000 cases in a single day … Read more
[ad_1] Amid a complex and difficult nationwide mass vaccination effort, the spotlight has shifted towards the clear disconnect between an activist-style cadence of vaccine distribution and the efforts of some struggling, resource-limited states. to administer these doses. Following reports that the United States is unlikely to meet its goal of delivering 20 million vaccines to … Read more
[ad_1] Authorities on Thursday arrested a pharmacist in suburban Milwaukee on suspicion of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by removing it from the refrigerator for two nights. The Grafton Police Department said the former pharmacist Advocate Aurora Health was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, tampering with a prescription drug and … Read more
[ad_1] New Jersey’s first coronavirus report in 2021 included 5,541 additional cases and 119 other confirmed deaths from COVID-19, although the rate of spread and statewide hospitalizations for the disease both declined for the third consecutive day. Governor Phil Murphy announced the New Years update on social networks Friday, a day after Garden State’s death … Read more
[ad_1] GRAFTON, Wisconsin. – Authorities on Thursday arrested a pharmacist in suburban Milwaukee on suspicion of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine by removing them from the refrigerator for two nights. The arrest marks another setback in what was a slower and more complicated start to vaccinating Americans than public health officials … Read more
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[ad_1] Thousands of healthcare professionals and frontline workers across the United States are refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as the vaccine rollout in America continues to stammer. Nearly half of health care workers in California County and one hospital in Texas say they will not get the vaccine, 60% of nursing home staff in … Read more
[ad_1] Police said they arrested a pharmacist at a Wisconsin hospital on Thursday on suspicion of sabotaging more than 500 doses of the coronavirus vaccine. The pharmacist is accused of having intentionally removed them from the refrigeration in order for them to spoil. Some of the doses in question were administered before hospital officials determined … Read more
[ad_1] A teenage girl with no underlying health problem died from the coronavirus just days after complaining of headaches. Sarah Simental died on Sunday, less than a week after being diagnosed with the killer virus, and only turning 18 earlier this month. The high school student, of Tinley Park, near Chicago, in the United States, … Read more
[ad_1] By Steve Gorman and Rebecca Spalding (Reuters) – A pharmacist at a Wisconsin hospital was arrested Thursday for sabotaging more than 500 doses of the coronavirus vaccine by deliberately removing them from the refrigeration to spoil them, law enforcement and medical officials said. The pharmacist, an employee of Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wis., … Read more