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December 23, 2020 Operation Warp Speed said as many as 20 million people could be vaccinated by years end, but so far the U.S. isnt even close to that goal. SHOW TRANSCRIPT Its been roughly 10 days since the U.S. started rolling out its first coronavirus vaccine.  "These vaccines are going to save so many lives and bring this pandemic to an end," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said earlier this week before receiving the vaccine.  Since then, just over 1 million Americans have r...

As the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine began arriving in five communities around Wyoming last week, health officials in Johnson County were refining the details of the county’s vaccine plan.  And now, vaccine doses are on the horizon for the county. On Dec. 20, the Wyoming Department of Health indicated that Johnson County is slated to recive 400 doses of the Moderna vaccine by the end of the year. The Food and Drug Administration cleared the Moderna vaccine for emergency use on Friday...

ASHLAND – With the approval of a second COVID-19 vaccine, more doses are arriving in the state and in the area. Three Rivers Public Health Department released a statement on Monday that said the district should receive some doses by the end of the week. Three Rivers covers Saunders, Dodge and Washington counties. The statement did not say which county would receive the vaccine first. “Please be patient, the vaccine is on its way,” the statement read. Health departments, federally...

Atrium Health administering COVID-19 vaccine to non-critical staff, despite state regulations Atrium Health administering COVID-19 vaccine to non-critical staff, despite state regulations By Nick Ochsner | December 23, 2020 at 1:10 PM EST - Updated December 23 at 7:01 PM CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Atrium Health is scheduling non-critical employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, despite state regulations aimed at ensuring those who interact with COVID-19 patients and the elderly are inocula...

Dec 22, 2020 The Minnesota Department of Healths testing lab handles samples of COVID-19. Courtesy Minnesota Department of Health MANKATO — A new shipment of COVID-19 vaccines is expected to arrive in Minnesota Wednesday, which would pave the way for immunizations to begin at area long-term care residents before the end of the month. Long-term care residents, who’ve accounted for most of the state’s COVID deaths, are in the “1A” group of ...

About 450 Iowa pharmacies will help with mass COVID-19 vaccination efforts, according to the Iowa Pharmacy Association. Author: Rachel Droze Updated: 7:07 PM CST December 22, 2020 DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa will start vaccinating long-term care facility residents Monday with the help of pharmacy staff.  Its all part of the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program, a no-cost federal program to help get nursing home staff and residents vaccinated for COVID-1...

caring for patients with COVID-19 working directly in areas where patients with COVID-19 are cared for, including staff responsible for cleaning, providing food service, and maintenance in those areas performing procedures at high risk of aerosolization on patients with COVID-19 (e.g., intubation, bronchoscopy, suctioning, invasive dental procedures, invasive specimen collection, CPR) handling decedents with COVID-19 NC DHHS went on to say that, "Health care workers administering vaccine in ini...

DENVER — Colorado’s legislature will go into recess soon after convening in January as lawmakers wait for COVID-19 cases to subside. Democratic leaders said Monday that legislators will begin the new session Jan. 13 and address any urgent business and required actions, such as swearing in new members. They will then suspend the session. The tentative plan is to reconvene Feb. 16, by which time legislative leaders hope the peak of the coronavirus pandemic will have subsided. They say lawmak...

9 & 10 News December 21, 2020 OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee has announced new travel restrictions for people arriving from the United Kingdom and South Africa, where a new and seemingly more contagious strain of the coronavirus is circulating. Inslee said Monday that he will order travelers coming from either of those two nations to quarantine for 14 days. Hes the order will cover passengers who have arrived from those countries in the past few days. Inslee says the quar...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey became one of the first governors on Monday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, bidding to build public confidence in the vaccinations that will have to be widely administered to ease the pandemic. The Republican governor said that she wanted to assure people it is safe, after she received the first of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine at a Montgomery hospital on Monday. Ivy, a 76-year-old lung cancer survivor, said she had no hesitation about taking the vaccin...