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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...

December 21 2020 Elderly residents of long-term care facilities received vaccine doses this week after health care workers took top priority. Oregon-based Consonus Pharmacy dispensed the new COVID-19 vaccine to a Portland-area senior living facility Monday, Dec. 21. Consonus Pharmacy is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program. The partnership program offers on-site vaccinations to nursing home and assisted living facility resi...

December 21 2020 Elderly residents of long-term care facilities received vaccine doses this week after health care workers took top priority. Oregon-based Consonus Pharmacy dispensed the new COVID-19 vaccine to a Portland-area senior living facility Monday, Dec. 21. Consonus Pharmacy is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program. The partnership program offers on-site vaccinations to nursing home and assisted living facility resi...

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...

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 quarantine measures are precaution...

Dec 22, 2020 Photo: Oregon Health Authority Long-term care residents and staff began receiving COVID-19 vaccinations today under a statewide rollout plan that prioritizes Oregonians who have been disproportionally impacted by the pandemic. Older adults and people with underlying health conditions are more likely to suffer life-threatening health consequences if they contract the virus. Given that the virus is so contagious, the risks are particularly high for those who live in large group set...

Dec 22, 2020 Photo: Oregon Health Authority Long-term care residents and staff began receiving COVID-19 vaccinations today under a statewide rollout plan that prioritizes Oregonians who have been disproportionally impacted by the pandemic. Older adults and people with underlying health conditions are more likely to suffer life-threatening health consequences if they contract the virus. Given that the virus is so contagious, the risks are particularly high for those who live in large group set...