Austin Public Health expands vaccine appointments to 40-plus age group, officials say
Travis County residents who are at least 40 years old can now receive a coronavirus vaccine through Austin Public Health, according to the area s top health officials on Tuesday.
Austin Public Health Director Stephanie Hayden-Howard announced that the agency was expanding its vaccine eligibility this week after the demand for vaccination appointments for those in the Phase 1A, 1B and 1C sub-groups designated by the Texas Department of State Health Services had decreased.
Those three sub-groups include front-line health care workers, residents at long-term care facilities, people 65 and older, people 16 and older with a health condition, school and licensed child care personnel and people 50 to 64 years old.
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LONG BEACH, Calif., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ agilon health, which partners with primary care physicians to unlock the value inherent in the leap from fee-for-service to a global-risk-based business model, today announced it has entered into a joint venture with four more leading independent physician practices. They are Buffalo Medical Group (BMG) in Buffalo, NY; Wilmington Health in Wilmington, NC; Starling Physicians in Hartford, CT and The Toledo Clinic, in Toledo, Ohio.
These new partnerships expand upon agilon health s efforts to improve and accelerate the growth of risk-based models of care in key geographies across the country by introducing a complete operating platform for integrated payment and delivery.
Major healthcare providers, hospitals will continue to require masks
Major healthcare providers, hospitals will continue to require masks
For local officials to be able to take action, COVID hospitalizations must be above 15 percent for seven days straight.
AUSTIN, Texas - It’s been a daily struggle for doctors and nurses over the past 12 months. The sheer number of patients, the amount of deaths that our nurses have seen over the last year and especially in the winter time, it’s enough to cause a great degree of burnout and even PTS for nurses, said Serena Bumpus, director of practice with the Texas Nurses Association.
Texas reports .06 percent of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been wasted
AUSTIN, Texas - The Department of State Health Services is reporting less than .1 percent of COVID-19 vaccines distributed in Texas have been wasted. The department is pleased with that number, as a small amount of waste is expected with the mass vaccination effort currently underway. Most of the doses of vaccines that have come to Texas are going into people s arms, said Lara Anton, spokeswoman for Texas DSHS.
So far about 3.1 million doses of the vaccine have been shipped to providers in Texas. Of those, about 1,750 have been compromised.
Texas reports .06 percent of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been wasted
Thousands Cut in Line for COVID Vaccine in Michigan after Virtual Loophole Discovered
On 2/1/21 at 8:58 AM EST
A virtual loophole in a Michiganvaccine scheduling system allowed thousands of people to cut the queue and book appointments.
Beaumont Health, Michigan s largest healthcare system, said on Monday that an online user found a way to bypass the state s priority vaccine group criteria to book an appointment.
The user took advantage of a vulnerability in its Epic scheduling tool an electronic medical record system before sharing the unauthorized pathway publicly, the healthcare provider said in a statement.
This enabled more than 2,700 people to circumvent the current Michigan vaccine mandates and cut in line.