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As a student nurse, Naomi Muñiz had only given a real shot one time. Yet there she stood inside Long Beach Memorial Hospital, preparing to inoculate healthcare workers against COVID-19 veteran nurses lining up before her and staff treating vials of the vaccine “as literally gold.”
“I felt pretty confident about my technique,” the 23-year-old Cal State Long Beach student said. “You just pinch the arm at the deltoid and go in, straight like a dart.”
But, she said, “I was nervous to get it right.”
By the end of her first shift in December, she had administered 40 shots, joining a growing corps of volunteer student nurses from Cal State universities who are jump-starting their careers at a time when there’s a great need for healthcare professionals trained to administer vaccines.
By NINA AGRAWAL | Los Angeles Times | Published: January 25, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) As a student nurse, Naomi Muñiz had only given a real shot one time. Yet there she stood inside Long Beach Memorial Hospital, preparing to inoculate healthcare workers against COVID-19 veteran nurses lining up before her and staff treating vials of the vaccine as literally gold. I felt pretty confident about my technique, the 23-year-old Cal State Long Beach student said. You just pinch the arm at the deltoid and go in, straight like a dart.
Long Beach auto repair business, court papers obtained Friday show.
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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kristin Escalante on Thursday tossed the lawsuit brought in December 2018 by Novell, Maxine, Reggie and Sylvia Thompson, the kids of the late Willie Thompson, who died on Dec. 20, 2016.
The judge found no proof of service was ever filed on the defendants, Junior & True Automotive on Anaheim Street, and property owner True Vannue Fleming of Long Beach.
The judge’s ruling was “without prejudice,” meaning the plaintiffs can resume with the case with a proper explanation.
Willie Thompson was a customer at Junior & True, where he slipped or tripped on a slippery substance on Dec. 17, 2016, according to the suit.
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The situation has gotten so bad that Dr. Ben Zandpour, who serves as a medical director for two Long Beach-area nursing homes, said some facilities have had to make tough decisions on whether to send residents to the emergency room and risk them dying while waiting for an available bed.
“The hospitals are so full, that if a nursing home has a patient who looks like he might not make it, they’re saying maybe this patient should just pass away in the comfort of the nursing home,” he said. “It’s a really tough situation. And it’s something I’ve never seen in my 20 years in medicine.”