Eisenhower has started scheduling its most vulnerable patients ages 65 and older, Rice said, with more than 11,000 additional invitations planned to go out on Monday for appointments starting early next month.
The variety of approaches in administering the vaccine invariably means, for example, many envious seniors are left wondering when it will be their turn as they see video of others getting shots. Those include 73-year-old former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who touted his inoculation at Dodger Stadium this week with a famous line from his Terminator films: “Come with me if you want to live.”
The frustration is bound to increase as people, expecting a major ramp-up, encounter a system tasked with not only giving people first-time shots but bringing back thousands already vaccinated for their required second doses of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
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Cathedral City family devastated by coronavirus looking for new homes for 2 dogs
UPDATE 1/13/21
Original Story 1/11/21
A Cathedral City family devastated by coronavirus is now speaking out after losing a loved one in a matter of weeks. We as a family have been through the ringer already this year, so it was just a perfect storm of, What more could go wrong right now? said Peter Harbur.
Harbur has been furloughed twice this year, lost his health insurance, and in the last few weeks, had five of his family members test positive for coronavirus. It was a lot of stress a lot of fear, Harbur said. I thought I was going to be having three funerals.
Dr. Alan Willamson shares alarming update on situation at Eisenhower Health
At no point in the pandemic has it been more challenging for staff at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage than right now.
The hospital is trying to deal with the rising surge in patients.
News Channel 3 s Peter Daut spoke with Eisenhower Health s, chief medical officer Dr. Alan Williamson on how they re managing.
Peter: What is the latest at Eisenhower Health?
Williamson: We re definitely seeing now our thanksgiving surge, we re in the thick of that, we have about 132 patients in the hospital today with COVID. Remembering that the worst of the surge that we had in the summer was only about 85 to 90 patients so we re already well beyond that. We forecast that we re still probably a couple of weeks away from the actual peak from post-Thanksgiving.
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