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Critical care doctor calls COVID vaccine a dream come true Laura Ramirez
“This is the beginning of a new beginning,” Dr. Hugh Cassiere said immediately after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.
Cassiere, the director of critical care services at Northwell Health’s North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., joined the frontline health care workers across the nation who began receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday. That same day, the U.S. faced a grim milestone as the death toll from the virus topped 300,000 people.
New York was one of the first and hardest-hit states during the pandemic. During its surge in the spring, Cassiere and his team treated hundreds of COVID-19 patients. It’s an experience that left psychological scars on him and many of his colleagues who fought the virus alongside him. “Post-traumatic stress disorder is real,” he told Yahoo News in July, describing how he could b
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GLEN COVE, N.Y., Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Edward L. Mills, MD, FAAOS, is being recognized by Continental Who s Who as a Top Orthopedic Surgeon in the field of Medicine and acknowledgment of his professional excellence in providing quality orthopedic care.
Board-certified Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. Mills has led an outstanding career with a commitment to excellence for 17 years and counting. He has garnered a well-deserving reputation for his vast repertoire of expertise in Shoulder and Knee, Adult Reconstruction, Sports Medicine, and Total Joint Replacement. In his current capacity, he is affiliated with Northwell Health in the state of New York for the past eight years and holds privileges at Glen Cove Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital, and Syosset Hospital. Additionally, he offers his expertise as a team physician for the United States Olympic Committee and USA Boxing.
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With a Covid-19 vaccine on the horizon, you may be wondering when and how to fully return to the office. Hold your horses. Employees are likely to get vaccinated at different times, meaning it could be weeks to months from the first to last worker s getting a jab.
Health care workers and residents and staff of long-term-care facilities will likely be first in line. The goal is to fully vaccinate this group by the end of January; then, the elderly and essential workers anyone from cops and meatpacking workers to teachers and grocery store clerks by the end of March. That s according to Paul Ostrowski, the retired Army general who currently serves as the director of supply, production, and distribution for Operation Warp Speed.
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