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Close Aspen Valley Hospital clinical pharmacist Kelly Atkinson organizes the empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the command unit trailer set up next to the vaccination tent in the Benedict Music Tent parking lot in Aspen, Colo., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. To keep track of the empty vials, the pharmacists labeled them with individual numbers. Before the vaccine is diluted, the unused vial of vaccine looks identical to the vials after the doses have been taken ou...

COVID Update New Jersey: Residents, staff at long-term care facilities begin getting 2nd dose of vaccine Replay Video UP NEXT Residents and workers at the first long-term care facility in New Jersey to get the COVID-19 vaccination began receiving their second doses Monday. Governor Phil Murphy and Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli were on hand at the Roosevelt Care Center in Old Bridge for the event, as the state continues to mourn more than 7,200 long-term care residents who have died from...

Anthony Johnson reports on New Jerseys State of the State address. Mildred, who has now live through two pandemics, received her shot to a round of applause. She was followed by nurse Esther Moodey, the states first nursing home staff member to receive the vaccine. "It is an understatement to say that this has been an incredibly challenging year for all of us in healthcare, on many levels," Moodey said after receiving the first dose. "I am thankful for the COVID-19 vaccine and honored to be the...

Officials with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) say the internal database they use to track COVID-19 cases has been experiencing problems that has caused incomplete case reporting for several days.

For several weeks now, my intrepid and hard-working reporter colleague Chad Livengood and I have been trying to explain why the state of Michigan's vaccination percent administration numbers are so low — now the 20th lowest in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…

Michigan getting more COVID-19 vaccine doses next week than expected Michigans allotment of COVID-19 vaccine for next week will be nearly twice what was expected after the federal government informed state health officials late Wednesday that it will release an additional 60,000 doses, health officials said. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services learned on Tuesday that the state would receive 62,400 doses of the Pfizer vaccine for next week — a number that fell far short o...

Poor planning and bureaucracy slow vaccination of nursing homes David Hogberg © Provided by Washington Examiner In mid-December, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar suggested that most nursing homes would receive the coronavirus vaccine by Christmas. In fact, most vaccinations of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities didn’t begin until after the holiday. Popular Searches While Azar’s prediction was surely far too rosy, it highlights a process that has...

Print When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended last month that residents and staff of long-term care facilities be among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, Sondra Norder breathed a sigh of relief. The president and CEO of St. Paul Elder Services in Wisconsin has seen 100 residents contract COVID-19 across her two campuses over the course of the pandemic. Twenty-eight have died. “The trauma we have been through, the isolation we have been through, the demand p...

“It sounds like your local health department is going faster than others have.” The Health Department’s goal is to administer 500 doses per day, depending on staffing, Lo Giudice said. That is 2,500 per week. At that rate, it could still take 68 weeks, almost a year and a half, to vaccinate everyone, so he pins his hopes on the supply increasing as soon as possible. After starting with medical personnel and first responders, group 1a, the Health Department started vaccinating people 75 a...

Midland, Ashton Medical Lodge residents and staff to receive COVID-19 vaccine Residents and staff at both facilities who have chosen to become immunized will begin receiving the virus as early as the second week of January. Author: NewsWest 9 Updated: 12:27 PM CST January 12, 2021 MIDLAND, Texas — Officials with Ashton Medical Lodge and Midland Medical Lodge announced residents and staff members will begin receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in January. This ...