Palm Beach County expecting COVID-19 vaccine arrival this week December 21, 2020 at 1:06 PM EST - Updated December 21 at 3:56 PM
A major turning point in our fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic is expected in Palm Beach County this week as the
Dr. Alina Alonso, the health director for Palm Beach County, said on Friday that 18,000 doses are expected to arrive at the county health department this week for disbursement. We can keep that for four weeks. We ll be working those four weeks to roll this out to fire rescue, EMS, paramedics, our county health department frontline and health care workers. We will be rolling that out, Alonso said. Obviously, everyone cannot get the vaccine at the same time, so please be patient.
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Santa gets creative to greet Boynton Beach hospital patients December 9, 2020 at 2:15 PM EST - Updated December 9 at 5:21 PM
Santa Claus is taking his holiday visits to new heights this year to greet patients at Bethesda Hospital East in Boynton Beach.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital has temporarily modified its policy to limit the amount of visitors. So families have been getting creative to send special greetings to their relatives.
On Wednesday afternoon, Kris Kringle was hoisted several stories high by a crane to say hello to patients inside their hospital rooms.
WATCH SANTA GREET PATIENTS: Bring the magic of Christmas, Santa said. I m so looking forward to doing it. To me, it s a pleasure.