Some Health Care Workers Are Getting the Vaccine. Others Aren’t. Who Decides?
Hospitals are ground zero for the vaccine effort, but even there, not everyone can be covered with the first allotment. New York Times
Man from New York being vaccinated. (Image courtesy: Twitter)
Sabrina Tavernise and Will Wright
Dr. Biron Baker runs a family medicine clinic in Bismarck, North Dakota. Every day patients walk through the door, and any number of them could be sick with the coronavirus. Baker treats them anyway, doing the best he can with his small staff to keep from getting sick.
But as the first vaccine rolls out for frontline health workers across the country this week, Baker and his staff are so far not among those scheduled to receive it and they do not know when their turn will come.
David Shankbone
The April 6, 2021, city election offers voters a chance to decide a majority of members on City Council at a time when many say decisions about land-use and other matters will have long-lasting impacts on the cityâs future.Â
Six of nine Council seats are up for grabs, and three of those six are open seats because term limits bar incumbents from seeking a third four-year term. The other three incumbents can run, but one may not, which would throw another seat into the mix.
So far, those interested in running include a retired Army colonel, a televangelist and a firefighter who is eligible to seek a Council seat due to a recent change in the cityâs Personnel Policy Manual. Heâd have to give up his city job if elected.
The Burlington City Council has selected an outside hire as Burlington s new chief of police.
Marc Denney will assume his position at the helm of the Burlington Police Department at a yet-to-be-announced date. Denney accepted the city s offer for the position ahead of a meeting Monday during which the council was set to approve his appointment.
“This is just formalizing it,” mayor Jon Billups said of the meeting.
Denney now is the police chief of La Center, Washington, a town with a population of 3,281 as of 2018. Prior to that, according to his LinkedIn profile, he was a deputy sheriff commander for 23 years in Cochise County, Arizona, which had a population of 125,922 in 2019.
Rachel Bluth and Phil Galewitz
California Healthline
With front-line health workers and nursing home residents and staff expected to get the initial doses of COVID vaccines, the thornier question is figuring out who goes next.
The answer will likely depend on where you live.
While an influential federal advisory board is expected to make its recommendations later this month, state health departments and governors will make the call on who gets access to a limited number of vaccines this winter.
As a result, it’s been a free-for-all in recent weeks as manufacturers, grocers, bank tellers, dentists and drive-share companies all jostle to get a spot near the front of the line.
Republished with permission from Kaiser Health News.
With front-line health workers and nursing home residents and staff expected to get the initial doses of COVID vaccines, the thornier question is figuring out who goes next.
The answer will likely depend on where you live.
While an influential federal advisory board is expected to make its recommendations later this month, state health departments and governors will make the call on who gets access to a limited number of vaccines this winter.
As a result, it’s been a free-for-all in recent weeks as manufacturers, grocers, bank tellers, dentists and drive-share companies all jostle to get a spot near the front of the line.