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The COVID-19 vaccine road show began in earnest Monday with the mass shipments of the Pfizer vaccine to all points on the compass in the United States and its territories. However, the initial shipments are aimed at the frontline healthcare personnel. It will be a long wait in line before the general public at large is vaccinated - current estimates are in late June or early July.
The CSKT Tribal Health Department expects to receive the Pfizer or the presently being reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration Moderna vaccine doses by late December or early January, said Chelsea Kleinmeyer, THD Community Health Division director. And once the Food and Drug Administration approves the Moderna vaccine that its advisory committee is reviewing this week, a small floodgate will open. Tribal Health will have access to some the initial 20,000 doses that vaccine that the Montana Department of Health and Human Services will receive. THD has opted to receive its COVID-19
HELENA – Gov. Steve Bullock has announced a new round of directives which will limit crowd size and close bars, restaurants and casinos at 10 p.m., in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The new directives go into effect 5 a.m. Friday and come as there has been talk of new vaccines soon to be available. There was no expiration date set for the directive.
“The situation is serious in Montana, and it is serious across the nation,” Bullock said Tuesday at a news conference. “We need to turn things around over the next few months while we wait on a widely distributed vaccine or else we risk hospitals that turn patients away and risk any further ability to control the spread.”
COVID’s Impact on Hospital Operations: Physician Perspective
At Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Montana, elective procedures ranging from cosmetic surgeries to routine cancer screenings were back-burnered in March, as they were at hospitals nationwide. by Kianna Gardner, Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, Mont. / December 14, 2020 TNS
(TNS) - When cases of the novel coronavirus first emerged in the United States, concerns over whether the nation s health-care system had the capacity to care for mass quantities of sick individuals loomed large.
And as leaders grappled with how hospitals could treat a growing pool of COVID-19 patients, other facets of the health-care system were altered or paused.
Officer Wounded in Sanders County Shootout – Suspect Killed
There was an officer involved shooting near Trout Creek in Sanders County early Friday morning in which the suspect was fatally shot by officers, but not before he wounded a law enforcement officer.
The Montana Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation issued a press release on Friday detailing the incident.
The Sanders County Sheriff’s Office received a call that a male suspect had barricaded himself inside the Naughty Pine Saloon near Trout Creek.
The suspect would not cooperate and so a call was made for the Missoula and Flathead County Sheriff’s Offices to deploy their SWAT teams to the scene.
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