In a prerecorded address, Gov. Janet Mills praises Mainers for their perseverance during the pandemic and outlines the priorities of her 2-year budget proposal.
COOS COUNTY â âUp here, we take care of each other.â This phrase not only launched a successful recruitment effort for Medical Reserve Corps volunteers to help with COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Northern NH, but it is also a local source of pride at how the North Country gets things done.
At the forefront of the vaccine distribution efforts is the Regional Public Health Network. Lead by the North Country Health Consortium, a local nonprofit public health organization, the North Country RPHN represents the northernmost of 13 networks that cover the State of New Hampshire.
âThe purpose of the Regional PHN is to bring services from the state to the local level by collaborating and coordinating with many partners in the region,â says Kris van Bergen, Public Health Senior Program Manager at NCHC. âThese partners range from municipalities (towns), schools, and law enforcement agencies to hospitals and other health and social service providers. The North C
Work Programme 2021 of the EU Initiative on Health Security News story On 27 March 2020, the European Commission Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) and ECDC signed an agreement for the implementation of the EU Initiative on Health Security.
This will enable tailor-made support to strengthen public health systems’ preparedness and response capacities of the European Union candidate and potential candidate and the European Neighbourhood Policy partner countries, and improve health security in the European neighbourhood. ECDC has developed a comprehensive programme for 2021 to enhance regional cooperation in the fields of epidemic intelligence, rapid risk assessment, preparedness and response. The goal is to empower partner countries’ professionals to better face the threats public health systems have to fight against. Several thematic events based on specific interests will be organised.
Skilled-nursing, assisted-living and other communities serving older adults are prioritized for vaccines, which are in limited supply
Residents have not been scheduled for COVID-19 vaccine appointments yet at Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara at 1820 De la Vina St., a retirement community specializing in dementia care and Alzheimer’s disease. Oak Cottage and many other long-term care communities are eligible for vaccines, but there are limited supplies for the thousands of waiting residents. (Brooke Holland / Noozhawk photo) By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @BT Holland
January 20, 2021
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Deanna Zachrisson doesn’t know when her husband, a 75-year-old veteran living at Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara, will get his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Last week, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr.
Anthony Fauci, joined the
Dell Medical School at UT-Austin to discuss what comes after the
COVID-19 pandemic. As the recipient of this year s Ken Shine Prize in Health Leadership, Fauci spoke with Dell Med Dean Dr.
Clay Johnston and award namesake Dr.
Kenneth Shine, a former president of the Institute of Medicine and vice chancellor of health affairs for the UT System, in a virtual lecture on lessons learned from the novel coronavirus crisis.
One year after the first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. was confirmed on Jan. 21, 2020, more than 400,000 Americans have died from the disease, with the global death count surpassing 2 million according to data tracked by Johns Hopkins University. Fauci said the still-growing and horrible toll of death and suffering should be a clarion call to rethink our public health investments: We really do have to take a serious look at pandemic preparednes