Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Senator Mitt Romney
All of them took center stage last week with a COVID-19 vaccine. Quite a few others have put their names and faces out there including this nurse.
She isn’t a well-known leader or influencer but certainly played a role in the latest COVID19 vaccine public relations campaign. Caught on camera, those watching saw the nurse manager hit the deck several minutes after receiving the vaccine.
While I appreciate that the news is finally covering all the facts, including that vaccines have serious side effects, I’ll never advocate for the administration of vaccinations to be shown on TV. What other medical procedure gets broadcasted on live television like vaccines do? None that I can think of. I know that airing the event with famous people and front-line workers is all part of the dog and pony show. Financial backers think it will help reduce vaccine “hesitancy”.
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On Friday, December 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
issued the first emergency use authorization ( EUA ) for
a vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019
( COVID-19 ) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ) in individuals 16 years of
age and older. The EUA allows the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
to be distributed in the U.S. and delivery to 145 hospitals,
clinics and public health systems in all 50 states has already
begun. While the distribution of the vaccine is subject to a
complex set of rules, we have highlighted below some key facts for
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On December 3, 2020, the federal government took a significant step to reduce barriers to healthcare practitioners’ ability to provide COVID-19-related telehealth services across state lines by amending its previous declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act). The PREP Act authorizes the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a PREP Act declaration in response to a public health emergency. A PREP Act declaration provides immunity from tort liability claims (except for willful misconduct) to individuals or organizations involved in the manufacture, distribution, or dispensing of medical countermeasures.
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On December 3, 2020, HHS issued its fourth amendment to the Declaration for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19 under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act). The PREP Act authorizes the Secretary of HHS to issue a declaration to provide liability protections to certain individuals and entities (Covered Persons) against any claim of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from, the manufacture, distribution, administration, or use of certain medical countermeasures (Covered Countermeasures). Among other measures, the amendment authorizes qualified healthcare personnel using telehealth to order or administer medical Covered Countermeasures for patients in a state other than the state where the healthcare personnel are already permitted to practice.