[ad_1] LEE COUNTY, Fla .– Hundreds of people set up a camp in Lee County on Tuesday night to line up for a COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday morning. At 6:30 a.m., all three vaccination sites in Lee County were at full capacity. The afternoon vaccine sessions are closed because the assigned doses have been assigned. … Read more
[ad_1] The coronavirus numbers in the United States are out of control, with the month of December resulting in more COVID deaths than we have seen in any other month this year. It’s important to be on high alert, which means knowing what risks you are taking right now and how they could make you … Read more
[ad_1] A number of non-frontline Stanford Medicine employees received the COVID-19 vaccine over the weekend, the hospital confirmed, just two weeks after Stanford hospital residents protested the deployment of the first allocation of vaccines to administrators and physicians who are not in contact with patients. Doses of the vaccine were offered by walk-in on Saturday … Read more
[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) – Parents now have one more reason to say no to candy, cakes and ice cream for young children. The U.S. government’s first dietary guidelines for infants and toddlers, released Tuesday, recommend feeding only breast milk for at least six months and no added sugar for children under 2 years old. … Read more
[ad_1] MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WMTV) – Aurora Medical Center in Grafton said the person who withdrew more than 500 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine admitted to doing so intentionally on Wednesday. Earlier this week, the medical center said it learned that 57 vials of the vaccine had been removed from a pharmacy refrigerator overnight and … Read more
[ad_1] BISMARCK – Two North Dakotans suffered severe allergic reactions shortly after taking the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to a press release issued by the North Dakota Department of Health on Wednesday, December 30. Both allergic reactions occurred during an observation period of 15 minutes after administration of the vaccines. Health officials report that none … Read more
[ad_1] Hamilton County Health Department is now offering COVID-19 vaccine to an amended Phase 1a1 and Phase 1a2 list, and will begin offering age-based vaccination in 10-year age groups , starting with those 75 and over. This change begins on Thursday. According to Tennessee Department of Health Immunization Plan, updated today (Wednesday), the new phase … Read more
[ad_1] The chief executive officer of an Indiana hospital has drawn backlash for posting what medical professionals and healthcare advocates have described as a “blame the victim” statement about a black doctor who died of COVID-19 after alleging she was abused by a doctor and nurses at her medical facility because of the color of … Read more
[ad_1] DOVER, Del. (AP) – State public health officials have finalized recommendations for the second phase of COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Delaware. Public health director Dr Karyl Rattay said on Tuesday that beneficiaries of the second phase will include essential frontline workers and people 65 and older. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: Wikipedia Individuals with different genetic variants in their immune system components often have very different immune responses to Sars-CoV-2. They will also have different responses to vaccines. Likewise, newly emerged variants of Sars-Cov-2 may elicit different immune responses in identical immune systems. In the larger reality we are currently facing, the potential variation … Read more