VIRGINIA â Like many frontline health care workers amid the global coronavirus pandemic, life changed pretty quickly this summer for Cindy Davidson. She went from her day-to-day duties as a nurse at the Essentia Health hospital in Virginia to running the siteâs COVID-19 tent in the urgent care parking lot â sometimes delivering the news to coworkers that they tested positive.
On Monday morning, her job changed again as Davidson drew a sign of hope from a small vial removed from the hospitalâs deep freezer and administered the first-ever coronavirus vaccine shot in Virginia to one of counterparts.
âBeing able to bring it here, itâs the most wonderful thing that happened here today,â she said during an interview that afternoon. âIt brings us to tears.â
Minnesota s 2nd vaccine shipment smaller than expected
Minnesota s shipment will now include 33,150 doses instead of the original projection of 58,000 doses.
Posted: Dec 18, 2020 2:49 PM
Updated: Dec 19, 2020 7:16 AM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesota health officials said Friday that the state’s second shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine will be thousands of doses fewer than initially anticipated.
Several states were notified by the federal government this week that they will be receiving a smaller second-week supply of the vaccine, which for Minnesota will now include 33,150 doses instead of the original projection of 58,000 doses.
Minnesota health officials on Friday reported more than 2,700 new coronavirus cases and 65 deaths. The state’s totals now sit at nearly 392,000 cases and more than 4,700 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
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If you have time to take in one video on COVID-19, I recommend the Power Point presentation by Kevin Roche immediately below. Kevin originally gave the presentation via Zoom to the Edina Morningside Rotary Club. I watched it live on December 1 thanks to the kind invitation of Dan Hunt and found it to be among the most educational presentations I have seen on the epidemic. Constrained by time from completing his presentation on December 1, Kevin has now finished it up for the video he posted to YouTube yesterday. Silence!
In the interest of completeness I have posted video recordings of the Minnesota press briefings on the planned rollout of the vaccine in Minnesota below. The point of these two presentations was to foster trust in the vaccine and the plan of distribution (which is to follow CDC guidance). On Tuesday Governor Walz convened the briefing this one by Power Point as well along with Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcol