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Doctors may have to decide which severely ill patients to treat based on a lottery if the NHS is overwhelmed this winter under draft Covid rationing plans. The guidance also advises medics look at patients potential to contribute to society or their likelihood of surviving the treatment as a way to prioritise whose lives should be saved. The protocol says that for patients who are in similar health and cannot be separated in other ways, a random allocation, such as a lottery, may be used.  T...

Maternity services are facing disruption across the South East because ambulance staff are too busy dealing with spiralling coronavirus hospitalisations. The East Sussex NHS Trust and Brighton and Sussex NHS Trust have both suspended services for home-births and their stand-alone midwife-led units because they cannot guarantee an ambulance can turn up if there is an issue. Four other trusts — all in Kent, one of the places worst-hit by Englands second wave — have also paused their home-birt...

Midland still in Phase 1A of coronavirus vaccine distribution Midland adds one COVID death, 22 cases over weekend Dec. 28, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 Midland County Department of Public Health hosted a clinic on Saturday, Dec. 26 for medical first responders to receive their first round of COVID-19 vaccines.Photo provided/Midland County Department of Public HealthShow MoreShow Less 2of11 Midland County Department of Public Health hosted a clinic on Saturday, Dec. 26 for medical first re...

cbleck@miningjournal.net MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Health Department has provided rollout phases and estimated starting times for the COVID-19 vaccination process in the Upper Peninsula. The MCHD said vaccine has been distributed to many provider organizations across Michigan, and continues to be distributed and received. It encourages people age 16 and older to get vaccinated. However, because of limited supply, vaccine distribution must follow strict guidance from the Centers for Dis...

Dec 24, 2020 Many are wondering when the COVID-19 vaccine will be available to them. The COVID-19 vaccine has been distributed to many provider organizations across Michigan and continues to be distributed and received as supply allows. Your local public health department encourages all citizens age 16 and older to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In consideration of limited supply, COVID-19 vaccine distribution must follow strict guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...

Midland adds 1 COVID death, 42 cases Wednesday Health director addresses vaccinations for at-home elderly Dec. 23, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syn...

Midland County Health Department gets Moderna vaccine Vaccinations underway for medical first responders Dec. 22, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Nicole Swanton, public health preparedness coordinator, is given the Moderna vaccine on Monday by nurse Shelley Kruskie. (Photo/Midland County Health Department) Midland County health department team members were in a vaccine clinic planning meeting Monday when a text popped up announcing a shipment of the Moderna vaccine had just arrived. "We knew we we...

But a return to normal for Klamath County is still a long way off. Two Legacy Health facilities in the Portland area each received 975 doses of the vaccine on Monday, and two more facilities in Portland and one in Ontario will each receive the same amount on Tuesday. The Oregon Health Authority said it will distribute a total of 35,100 doses to hospitals and 10,725 doses to skilled nursing facilities throughout the state this week. Two more shipments in December will provide an additional 63,30...

cbleck@miningjournal.net MARQUETTE — It is anticipated that UP Health System-Marquette will receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines by next week, said Dr. Robert Lorinser, medical director of the Marquette County Health Department, Dickinson-Iron District Health Department, Western Upper Peninsula Health Department and Public Health, Delta & Menominee Counties. “As soon as it’s here, we’re ready to go,” Lorinser said. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services indicate...