Vaccine outlook
Crook County health officials will follow the vaccination priority schedule developed by the state
Crook County health leaders have increased their COVID vaccination rates considerably since vaccines were first made available in late December.
Yet, like communities throughout the state, they are playing catchup as eligible people wanting vaccinations has outpaced the number of shots that can be administered. In the beginning, the state was allocating our weekly shipments based on the size of county, and we were only getting 100 doses a week, said Vicky Ryan, Crook County s emergency preparedness coordinator. Then, they changed that a few weeks back, and they are doing it based on how much we say we can administer. So, we are getting upwards of 700 doses a week, and we are supplying two of our local pharmacies (Bi-Mart and Clinic Pharmacy) doses as well as St. Charles clinic.
Serum Institute of India (SII), the world s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, has sought the central government s intervention so as to enable the firm import essential raw materials from the US for uninterrupted manufacturing and supply of Covid-19 vaccines. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs at Pune-based SII, Prakash Kumar Singh said the US government has invoked the Defence Production Act because of which the firm is facing difficulties in importing necessary products like cell culture medias, raw material, single-use tubing assemblies and some specialty chemicals from the US.
March 06 2021
Kate Brown said she got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to quell rumors and misinformation about the drug.
Gov. Kate Brown got her COVID-19 vaccination Saturday, March 6, at the Oregon Health and Science University Primary Care Clinic in Scappoose.
Dr. Joe Skariah gave Brown the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which was recently cleared for emergency use by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration medical panel. Oregon expects to get dozes of that vaccine along with the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
Brown said the state had vaccinated more than 1 million people and 20,000 doses each day.
In a statement released by Brown s office, the governor said she got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to quell rumors and misinformation about the drug. It was important to me to demonstrate today that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is safe and effective, Brown said. Every week my office hears the question: If these vaccines are so safe, then why hasn t Kate Brown gotten one?
Read more about US ban on export of critical raw materials to limit vaccine supply: Serum on Business Standard. SII, the world s biggest vaccine maker, has licensed the AstraZeneca/Oxford University product and will soon start bulk-manufacturing the Novavax shot
The Delhi High Court Friday said it expects that the AAP government will put things in order and comply with a judicial order asking authorities to take action and regulate online pathological labs, otherwise contempt action would be initiated. The high court, which was hearing a plea alleging non-compliance of its order in this regard, also sought to know from the AAP government whether its pathological laboratories and hospitals are NABL accredited. The plea alleged non-compliance of the high court s August 6, 2020 order to take action against illegal online health service aggregators operating in Delhi and to regulate online pathological labs.