Texas begins Covid-19 vaccinations at select nursing homes and long-term care facilities
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) Select skilled nursing facilities and long-term care facilities in Texas will begin the processing of vaccinating residents and staff Monday. It s part of the federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program, which provides such facilities with staff and Pfizer vaccines from partnering Walgreens and CVS locations.
More than 1,200 skilled nursing facilities and more than 2,000 other long-term care facilities have signed up for the program in Texas, totaling more than 225,000 certified beds. The Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program will help the State of Texas facilitate safe vaccinations among some of our most vulnerable populations, and it will help us protect residents and staff of long-term care facilities from Covid-19, Governor Greg Abbott said in a press release. I thank the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for offering this prog
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Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center CEO Deborah Visconi and staff posing with shipment of the Moderna COVID Vaccine.Courtesy of Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco
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Starting Monday, frontline healthcare workers will begin receiving doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the second vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, announced Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco. The county has received 1,000 doses allotted for Bergen County healthcare workers and will be administered at the Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, Tedesco said in a statement.
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Operation Warp Speed said as many as 20 million people could be vaccinated by year s end, but so far the U.S. isn t even close to that goal.
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It s been roughly 10 days since the U.S. started rolling out its first coronavirus vaccine. These vaccines are going to save so many lives and bring this pandemic to an end, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said earlier this week before receiving the vaccine.
Since then, just over 1 million Americans have received a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, while nearly 9.5 million doses have gone out to states and a number of federal agencies as of Wednesday morning, according to the CDC. That s a difference of more than 8 million between the number of doses administered and doses distributed.
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