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States are debating whether prisoners should be among the first groups to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Experts say inmates can transmit the disease to prison employees as well as healthcare workers who treat them. A tracking project reports that 250,000 inmates nationwide have tested positive for COVID-19 and 1,700 have died. They add that 62,000 prison employees have tested positive and 108 have died. All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication. Some i...

Leon Neal/stringer/Getty Images IDFA survey finds 80% of adults believe food industry workers should be prioritized in receiving coronavirus vaccine. More than four in five adults believe food workers—manufacturing, retail and farm workers, among others—should be made a priority when it comes to being among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine, according to an International Dairy Food Association (IDFA) poll conducted by Morning Consult from December 4-7 am...

IDFA survey finds 80% of adults believe food industry workers should be prioritized in receiving coronavirus vaccine. More than four in five adults believe food workers—manufacturing, retail and farm workers, among others—should be made a priority when it comes to being among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine, according to an International Dairy Food Association (IDFA) poll conducted by Morning Consult from December 4-7 among a national sample of 2,200 adults. The same poll...

December 15, 2020 (Video courtesy of WMAR-TV) Five University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) front-line healthcare workers — two physicians on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), a nurse, a respiratory therapist, and an environmental service worker — received COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines Dec. 14 as UMMS begins the process of vaccinating staff members throughout the organization. UMMS received one tray of 975 vaccine doses and is in the proces...

Need to be patient. Lexington has its 1st COVID-19 vaccines. When will you get one? Jeremy Chisenhall, Lexington Herald-Leader Dec. 15—While the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were arriving in Lexington Monday to be administered to health care workers, the city was working on getting the vaccine to those next in line. "We have no idea exactly how many doses we will be getting and when," said Susan Straub, spokeswoman for Mayor Linda Gortons office. Lexingtons first vaccin...

Even though the first shipment is on the ground in our state, questions remain. By Benjamin Cassidy 12/14/2020 at 10:25am Many Washingtonians will have to wait a while to get their shots.   Its Here. Shipments of the first authorized coronavirus vaccine in the U.S. arrived today in Washington. Vaccinations could begin as soon as Tuesday, with health care workers, long-term care residents and staff, and tribal governments receiving the initial doses statewide. “We now have in view ...

Publication date:  December 10, 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Life is like a parachute jump; you’ve got to get it right the first time.” With a spate of Covid-19 vaccines on the horizon, we must prepare to jump. In the span of a few weeks, promising results from three Covid-19 vaccine candidates trials were reported. In the United States (US), efforts to develop and deliver vaccines is under Operation Warp Speed (OWS). News of safe, effective Covid-19 vaccines injected a dose of optimism...