Virginians leave up holiday decorations in honor of healthcare workers Christmas decorations and lights are lit up in a home s front yard. (Source: Photo Mike Mohundro, KFVS) By Hannah Eason | January 9, 2021 at 12:27 PM EST - Updated January 9 at 12:27 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - If youâve seen holiday decorations in your neighborhood nearly two weeks after Christmas Day, youâre not alone. Virginians are keeping up their colorful light displays in honor of healthcare workers.
Businesses, homeowners and communities are encouraged to keep their lights up until Jan. 31 as a way to say âthank you.â
âWe know our healthcare workers are tired, but they continue to put others first and care for the sickest patients in our hospitals,â Gov. Ralph Northam said in a Thursday announcement. âIn this challenging year, these lights have become for many a sign of normalcy and hope.â
Vaccination pods open to more frontline workers in Orange County
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) Frontline workers waited up to two hours for a vaccine at North Net Training Center in Anaheim on Friday, one of three point of dispensing sites, or PODS, across Orange County that opened to all tiers under Phase 1A this week. It is happening in stages and it s very important that these folks get vaccinated today because of the important frontline role they play delivering healthcare, said Anaheim City Spokesman Mike Lyster.
About 1,300 eligible residents are expected to get the vaccine at this POD site, now open to a wider range of healthcare workers from those who work in doctor and dental offices to dialysis employees and home healthcare workers.
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The decks have been cleared for rolling out the COVID vaccine from Jan. 16 as two candidates get approval for restricted use
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The decks have been cleared for rolling out the COVID vaccine from Jan. 16 as two candidates get approval for restricted use
An interminable wait for a COVID vaccine finally comes to an end with the Central government approving two candidates for restricted use in emergencies across the country. Arrangements are now on to launch the immunisation programme from January 16.
As planned, the vaccine would be administered to healthcare workers in the first phase and later to staff of various government departments, to people aged above 50, and to people with comorbid health conditions.
Updated: 1:06 PM EST Jan 9, 2021 Ford Hatchett A North Carolina nurse has spent the past few weeks traveling the eastern coast of the state vaccinating dozens of people for COVID-19. But one vaccination stood out in particular: His wife.Grier Wimmer works as a nurse and has been working with CVS Health to vaccinate those in the early phases of the vaccine rollout. His wife, a pharmacist, became one of his patients Friday. She was able to give me my flu shot a couple months back, Wimmer said. And now I m finally able to give her a vaccination. It was great. That was neat. A photo of the moment was shared on Facebook by the couple s daughter, Elizabeth.She captioned the photo: Have you ever seen anything as cute as my dad giving my mom her first COVID-19 vaccine? Thankful for these healthcare workers and everything they do each day to keep us safe and healthy. Wimmer said he s had several family members and friends battle COVID-19, including his mother and b
A second dry run of the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out was conducted at 150 sites across all 11 districts of Delhi on Friday, officials said. They said 10 vaccination centres were chosen in South Delhi for the dry run, including the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the Safdarjung Hospital, the Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital, and the Pushpwati Singhania Hospital and Research Institute. In South East district, 19 sites were chosen across three sub-divisions. The sites included the Batra Hospital, the Fortis Hospital, the Escorts Hospital, the National Heart Institute, the Holy Family Hospital, the Apollo Hospital and the MCW Gautampuri. At the National Heart Institute, a staff member said, We followed the procedure as would be done on the day of vaccination.