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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have received a $4.6 million federal grant to study rehabilitation strategies and determine the best course of action to help restore mobility and function to patients who suffer from debilitating strokes and other neurological conditions. The grant was awarded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research.
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“Now we are able to spread the vaccine to other high-risk healthcare workers,” said Dr. Ankoor Shah, of D.C.’s Department of Health.
In order to coordinate the vaccination of these groups, those who have been added to Group 1A will have to register online. That process will begin later this week.
District officials say 12,600 doses of the Moderna vaccine are arriving from the federal government and 8,000 doses will come from Maryland.
DC to get 12,600 doses of #Moderna this week from the feds and 8,000 from Maryland. 8,775 doses #Pfizer from Virginia and 4,875 from feds. @nbcwashingtonpic.twitter.com/aKeKhcJGCY Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) December 21, 2020
Updated on December 21, 2020 at 9:52 am
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As shipments of Moderna’s vaccine begin, local health officials are warning the public not to get complacent during the holiday season. My concern is that I don t want people to let their guard down thinking well there s a vaccine coming; I m not going to bother wearing a mask, I m not going to bother with social distancing, Dr. Fabian Sandoval, CEO and Research Director at the Emerson Clinical Research Center, said.
Sandoval is urging people not to travel for the holidays, even though things are looking up in terms of vaccine distribution.
A loving couple who are married 62 years have seen each other just once in the past nine months – to briefly hold hands in an ambulance – after both suffered life-changing injuries .
Within the space of just a few weeks, Dolorous Harrison (80) was receiving care after suffering a massive stroke while her husband Michael (81) had been left paralysed following a fall.
After Michael’s devastating accident, seven months passed before he saw his wife again, when the ambulance he was being driven in stopped at the nursing home Dolorous is resident in.
Now the couple s children are lending their voices to a campaign calling on the Government to ease restrictions on visitors for people who are have been left particularly isolated due to illness or old age.