NFL modifies Covid-19 protocols for vaccinated team personnel
From CNN s Jacob Lev
National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell has modified the league s Covid-19 protocols due to the reduced risk of infection for vaccinated players.
Goodell outlined the amended protocols in a memo sent to all NFL teams on Friday. A source provided a copy of the memo to CNN.
The NFL said that fully vaccinated team personnel will only be tested for Covid-19 once a week instead of daily tests. Last season, every personnel member was tested for the virus daily.
The memo also says that all fully vaccinated players and staff members will not need to quarantine if they come in close contact with an infected person.
India bans supply of oxygen for industrial purposes as shortages continue amid Covid-19 surge
From CNN s Manveena Suri
Workers sort oxygen cylinders used for Covid-19 coronavirus patients at a facility in Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital in Ajmer on April 22. Himanshu Sharma/AFP/Getty Images
India banned the supply of oxygen for industrial purposes as oxygen shortages continue in many hospitals in the capital, New Delhi, amid a deadly second wave of Covid-19 in the country.
In an order issued by India’s Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday, it also said no restrictions are to be imposed on the movement of medical oxygen between states.
After Derek Chauvin verdict, UMass Memorial Health hopes community ‘can move toward healing and addressing the systemic racism’
Updated Apr 21, 2021;
In the wake of the guilty verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, UMass Memorial Health said it hoped systemic racism “the root cause of so many tragic deaths of people of color” would be addressed.
The largest healthcare provider and employer in Worcester County released a statement following the verdict in the trial of Chauvin, who was seen on video pressing his knee on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.
Judge Peter A. Cahill read the jury’s verdict Tuesday afternoon in case of Floyd’s killing, announcing Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder while committing a felony, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The verdict came after two days of deliberations.
The Leon County Health Department will relocate its COVID-19 vaccination site to the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center, effective Monday, May 3.
The relocation to an indoor site will help healthcare workers and residents going for a vaccination to avoid increasing seasonal temperatures, humidity and unpredictable thunderstorms.
The department says existing appointments for a COVID-19 vaccine will be honored at the new site.
“We know that through May and the summer months, the weather will be getting too warm for our staff, volunteers, and partners to be safely outside while our patients are in their cars,” Leon Health Officer Claudia Blackburn said in a statement.
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare announced on Tuesday the hospital has administered or distributed more than 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. This has been no small feat, the hospital wrote online. Thank you to every colleague, provider, volunteer and community partner that has made this possible.
To register for the hospital s Thursday vaccination clinic, visit TMH.org/Vaccine.
New vaccination site opens
CDR Health in Tallahassee will begin administering COVID-19 vaccines.
Throughout the state, the COVID-19 testing network has administered 2 million vaccines and processed more than 2 million tests, according to a press release.
The site says vaccinations will average less than 30 minutes from check-in to check-out. CDR Health administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Floridians 18 and older, the site says.