WBBJ TV
January 7, 2021
JACKSON, Tenn. LIFELINE Blood Services in Jackson is in need of more locations to host mobile blood drives across West Tennessee.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, LIFELINE has not been able to host mobile blood drives at their usual locations. This has caused a major problem for blood supply since early last year.
Organizers are now asking local businesses and industries to help schedule blood drives at their locations with COVID-19 precautions.
Marketing Manager Caitlin Roach says they’re asking the community for help because giving blood during this time is extremely important.
“We would ask that they reconsider where we’re concerned we are are not something that’s optional, blood is not optional. It is critical in saving lives for West Tennessee,” Roach said.
27 Sherri Hood made a financial sacrifice and took a pay cut when she joined the Defense Contract Management Agency team 13 years ago.
“While it was an initial pay cut, I saw it as a wonderful opportunity to enter the federal government in a high-demand field that was challenging, interesting, and I could channel into a career,” said Hood, who started her government career as a GS-7.
Years later, she said the sacrifice was worth it and she is glad she became a Keystone program intern in contracting at DCMA Hampton in 2007. The program is an agency multi-year developmental program that trains individuals in a variety of disciplines. Hood is now a contracts specialist and policy action officer for grants, agreements and other transactions in the Contracts Policy Division of the DCMA headquarter’s Contracting Directorate. In this role, she develops and implements policy and guidance and serves as the lead for the other transactions working group.
More than 100 doses of the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine arrived at Tobey Hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
Just after noon, Jeff McCarthy a pharmacy manager moonlighting as a courier for the day drove doses of the vaccine and the supplies needed to vaccinate people to Wareham from Southcoast Health’s Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River.
Nearly 2,000 doses of the vaccine were delivered to the Charlton Hospital yesterday, on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Southcoast began distributing doses of the vaccine to Tobey Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford on Wednesday.
McCarthy said Southcoast had more doses to send over once all of Tobey Hospital’s initial doses were used but planned to send over small shipments because the deep freezer was at another location.
Nicholas Capote dispenses the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses at Tufts Medical Center from a vial into a syringe. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Health care workers administered the first COVID-19 vaccines in Massachusetts to their own on Tuesday. Doctors, nurses, cleaning staff and others stationed in COVID units, emergency rooms or other front-line positions received the injection after workers unpacked the frozen vaccine vials in a puff of cold mist.
The arrival of the vaccine, developed in record time by Pfizer and BioNTech, a German company with U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, has been met with jubilation from health experts. The beginning of these injections, they say, marks a big step toward ending the pandemic.
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