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When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended last month that residents and staff of long-term care facilities be among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, Sondra Norder breathed a sigh of relief.
The president and CEO of St. Paul Elder Services in Wisconsin has seen 100 residents contract COVID-19 across her two campuses over the course of the pandemic. Twenty-eight have died.
“The trauma we have been through, the isolation we have been through, the demand physically and mentally over the last 10 months we’ve just been disproportionately impacted,” she says. “I don’t think there’s anybody more deserving of having this vaccine on board as soon as possible, so that we can start to heal from this.”
“It sounds like your local health department is going faster than others have.”
The Health Department’s goal is to administer 500 doses per day, depending on staffing, Lo Giudice said. That is 2,500 per week. At that rate, it could still take 68 weeks, almost a year and a half, to vaccinate everyone, so he pins his hopes on the supply increasing as soon as possible.
After starting with medical personnel and first responders, group 1a, the Health Department started vaccinating people 75 and older, group 1b, last week. Demand overwhelmed supply from day one, and the Department went to appointment-only vaccinations Friday. It took an hour and 20 minutes to fill the available slots, Lo Giudice said.
Midland, Ashton Medical Lodge residents and staff to receive COVID-19 vaccine
Residents and staff at both facilities who have chosen to become immunized will begin receiving the virus as early as the second week of January. Author: NewsWest 9 Updated: 12:27 PM CST January 12, 2021
MIDLAND, Texas Officials with Ashton Medical Lodge and Midland Medical Lodge announced residents and staff members will begin receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in January.
This is all part of Phase 1B of the plan to vaccinate Texans. This phase includes high-risk people like residents of long-term care facilities and those taking care of them and those 65 and older.
South Carolina reports 3,450 new COVID-19 cases and 60 new deaths in the past 24 hours. Officials say 267,884 vaccine doses have been administered out of 542,050 doses received in South Carolina.
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