It’s Christmas Eve and she’s tired. She s been tired for the majority of the year.
Like most healthcare workers, she puts in long hours and long days. Days turn into nights, then back into days again. Time becomes irrelevant because it seems like she is always at the hospital.
Christmas for many healthcare workers looks like reheated leftovers, videos of gifts being opened, It’s a Wonderful Life on a muted TV and maybe, if they’re lucky, a tree.
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Still, she comes to work. She does her job. And, in many cases, her job is saving lives. This job, especially lately, would break most people. But for this nurse, we’ll call her Vivian, it’s more than a job – it’s a calling.
Govt Successfully Conducts Dry Run For COVID-19 Vaccination In Andhra, Punjab, Assam And Gujarat
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Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare conducted a two-day dry run for activities entailed in Covid-19 vaccination in four states of Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat on 28 and 29 December, an official release said.
Backed with the experience of rolling out Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) and conducting nationwide multiple wide-range injectable vaccination campaigns such as measles-rubella (MR) and adult Japanese Encephalitis (JE) campaign, required steps are being undertaken to vaccinate priority population groups such as Health care workers, Frontline workers and people above 50 years for Covid-19, it said.
Two COVID-19 vaccines have been developed and they are being administered to citizens all over the United States. I knew it was going to happen, and it already has, people are using their privilege to jump to the front of the Covid vaccine line.
Governor Andrew Cuomo says he knows about one incident where a person is trying to jump to the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line, and he says he’s not going to tolerate it.
There are reports that one healthcare provider, ParCare Community Health Network, administered the vaccine against state guidelines for administering it. Governor Cuomo says that the incident is being investigated and he is also referring the matter to the office of Attorney General Latitia James.