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Vaccinations for COVID-19 will ramp up for Decatur Morgan Hospital staff and a vulnerable group of senior citizens, but a local nursing home operator questioned if the general public should

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Northport pharmacy helping to vaccinate thousands of nursing home residents, workers Getting vaccinations to Alabama nursing homes By Morgan Hightower | December 17, 2020 at 7:19 PM CST - Updated December 17 at 7:43 PM NORTHPORT, Ala. (WBRC) - The process to start vaccinating thousands of people who live and work in nursing homes starts on a loading dock in Northport. “We expect in the next few days, FedEx will back their truck in and deliver our 32,000 doses of the vaccine,” said Dr. ...

Alabama nursing homes to start vaccinating residents this month Updated Dec 18, 2020; Facebook Share Nursing homes across Alabama are gearing up to immunize every resident and worker who wants to be vaccinated. “The vaccine gives us hope. This could be the big step forward that we need (for) returning life to normal in nursing homes,” said John Matson, spokesperson for the Alabama Nursing Home Association. Starting this month, about 52,000 Pfizer vaccines for COVID-19 will be distributed t...

Nursing home residents could receive vaccine around Christmas By Lydia Nusbaum | December 15, 2020 at 8:06 PM CST - Updated December 15 at 8:06 PM MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Pharmacies could administer the COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home residents and staff members shortly after Christmas, Alabama Nursing Home Association director of communications John Matson said. “So we’re very hopeful that timeline holds out because it would be certainly good news, and a nice welcome gift around Ch...

Independent football teams plan to play here Coquille expects to have two Leslie boys, Oregon stars, in their lineup Irvin Watson of Coquille was here last night and made tentative arrangements for a football game between Coquille and Marshfield independent football teams on the North Bend grounds New Year’s Day. Coquille has a team tentatively formed and Gordon Rasmussen’s “Rumeunds,” as the independent team here has been dubbed, will probably have about the same lineup the...

is 92% negative ad run rate. maybe directly to the aspirations of the solutions our country needs. but our political process is purely about using secret money to annihilate your opponent. pro-romney groups have run 12,768 negative ads compared to 210 pro-gingrich ads. its this kind of spending that has poisoned our political dialogue. depriving us of energy efficiency and appropriate health care. we will be talking more about the super pacs and their secret money and their flood of ca...