PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Chief Medical Officer Lawrence Neville is hopeful that the administration of the first vaccines are âthe beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.âÂ
The hospital leader, who also serves as chief medical officer for PeaceHealth St. John in Longview, noted that the hospitals have been a forward staging area for the vaccine developed by Pfizer, with first vaccinations administered Dec. 16 for high-risk caregivers.Â
Neville said PeaceHealth initially received 3,900 doses of the vaccine, of which 1,600 were administered in the first four days at PeaceHealth Southwest and close to 600 at PeaceHealth St. John. He said there were 3,400 caregivers who qualified for the highest priority of the vaccine at PeaceHealth Southwest, alongside about 900 physicians. The initial shipment of the Pfizer vaccine would get the hospital close but not completely to the level of vaccination for all of those individuals, which made the prospect of rec
Clark County tallies 404 COVID-19 cases over long weekend
Published: December 28, 2020, 11:46am
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As Clark County waits to see what Christmas and New Year’s gatherings will do to local COVID-19 case counts, numbers reported Monday continued to show a daily decrease.
Clark County Public Health reported 404 coronavirus cases over the long weekend an average of 101 infections per day Thursday through Sunday. Public Health did not report cases on Christmas day.
Clark County was averaging close to 150 infections per day at times in November and December, but infections have dipped slightly in recent weeks.
It will likely be two to four weeks before increases from Christmas and New Year’s gatherings manifest in testing. The data so far has showed that Clark County likely dodged major increases from Thanksgiving gatherings.
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This is the year everything went virtual. That doesn’t work for photojournalists. We have to be in the middle of the action to do our jobs. We cannot capture a moment via Zoom.
When the story is a once-in-a-lifetime, slow-moving pandemic, that task is even more daunting. Usually we can see danger and take steps to avoid it while keeping ourselves safe in the field. When the threat is an invisible, possibly deadly virus, we are forced to balance doing our jobs and risking our health.
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Clark County’s first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, was reported on March 7. Since then, it has sickened more than 12,000 people and taken the lives of more than 135 people.
It has shuttered businesses, reinvented learning and upended nearly every aspect of Clark County life.
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