Indiana University s Board of Trustees met Friday and provided a series of updates regarding enrollment, its presidential search, and sites for the new IU School of Medicine medical education and rese
Around the nation: How a snowy traffic jam became an impromptu Covid-19 vaccination site
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Health care workers in Cave Junction, Oregon, were returning from a Covid-19 vaccination site when they got stuck on a shut-down highway in the snow and because their extra vaccine doses were in danger of expiring, they walked from car to car, offering vaccines to other people stuck in traffic, in today s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from the District of Columbia, Indiana, and Oregon.
District of Columbia: The Biden administration on Wednesday said it was calling off a plan announced by former President Donald Trump s administration that would make it easier for more physicians to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders. The Trump administration had directed federal agencies update guidelines to exempt physicians with a
Thawed Vaccine Leads Johnson County To Offer Shot To Public
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FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines that arrived in a central Indiana county already thawed prompted officials to briefly offer the shots to people not yet eligible for the vaccine.
The Johnson County Health Department and Johnson Memorial Hospital received 957 already thawed Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines late last week. Officials had to act fast because that vaccine can be stored thawed for only up to five days under U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidance.
The suburban Indianapolis county s health department briefly opened the vaccine to the general public. While the vaccine eligibility was widened, the goal remained to vaccinate those most at risk, department director Betsy Swearingen said.