[ad_1] Doctors protested at Stanford Medical Center on Friday, saying the hospital had not prioritized vaccines for frontline workers and instead gave too much to office staff and others working from home. Internal emails from hospital management acknowledged that the vaccine rollout plan did not include enough residents and fellows. The protest comes as at … Read more
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[ad_1] Twitter / Chronicle of San Francisco More than 100 medical workers at Stanford Medical Center staged a massive strike on Friday, accusing the institution of unfairly distributing its COVID-19 vaccine as the pandemic rages across California. During the first week of coronavirus vaccination in the United States, resident doctors and Stanford fellows said they … Read more
[ad_1] BOISE, Idaho (AP) – An unexpected reduction in the number of doses of coronavirus vaccine Idaho receives next week will disrupt distribution plans, a state immunization official said on Friday. Sarah Leeds, head of the State Department of Health and Welfare’s immunization program, said the state had planned 17,550 but will only get 9,750. … Read more
[ad_1] Drug overdose deaths rose dramatically in the United States and set a new death record in the year ending May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The CDC’s health alert network released a report on Thursday indicating that 81,230 drug overdose deaths occurred during this period as of June 2019. “This represents … Read more
[ad_1] Fifty-eight other people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco last month, bringing the annual total to at least 621. This compares to 441 deaths in 2019. The latest figures put San Francisco on track to lose nearly two people a day by the end of the year and eclipse the 172 COVID-19 deaths … Read more
[ad_1] Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown extended her state of emergency declaration until March on Thursday, saying “these are the darkest days of this pandemic.” The declaration, which provides the legal basis for Brown to enact executive orders banning business activities and school closings, was due to expire on January 2, but has now been … Read more
[ad_1] SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah increased by 2,644 on Friday, with 14 additional deaths reported, according to the Utah Department of Health. The state now estimates that there are approximately 56,576 active COVID-19 cases in Utah. The sliding average number of positive cases per day over seven days … Read more
[ad_1] (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl / Agence Anadolu via Getty Images) PHOENIX – Arizona has not received its full allowance of COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer for the coming week, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. Health officials said in a press release on Friday that the state planned to order … Read more
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES – They’re offering tens of thousands of dollars in cash, forcing their personal assistants to harass doctors every day and asking if a five-figure donation to a hospital would help them jump the line. The COVID-19 vaccine is here – just like the rich who want it first. “We get hundreds of … Read more