Editorial: Why isn t there a vaccine appointment waitlist?
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“Russian roulette.” “Futile.” “Useless.”
That’s how some Express-News readers eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine described their efforts to secure an appointment through the Metropolitan Health District. The words “lottery” and “gamble” also came up at last week’s City Council meeting, where San Antonians pressed Metro Health to establish a one-stop registry for vaccine distribution.
This week, as the Federal Emergency Management Agency launched a pilot project in Dallas and Houston that expands access to vaccines in underserved areas 10,000 doses per day from three mass distribution sites in those communities San Antonio remains the last major city in Texas to create a waitlist for COVID-19 vaccines.
VA can now make $22.3B T4NG on-ramp awards
The Government Accountability Office has put the hammer down on several companies who were protesting their elimination from the on-ramp to get on the Veterans Affairs Department s $22.3 billion T4NG technology services contract vehicle.
GAO denied protests filed by eight companies, who argued they were unfairly eliminated from the competition for seats on the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation contract.
The VA has been using a phased approach to making awards under the on-ramp process, so it has been eliminating companies as it moves toward final awards.
As expected, several of the knocked out companies filed protests in November arguing their elimination was unfair.
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email Union Announces Boldest Agenda Yet to Strengthen Federal Employee Rights, Pay and Benefits
The president of the nation’s largest federal employee union forecast a “two-year window” to undo former President Trump’s workforce policies and expand workers’ collective bargaining rights.
American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley on Sunday announced an expansive agenda to undo the Trump administration’s workforce policies and to improve the rights, pay and benefits of workers throughout the federal government.
At the union’s annual legislative conference, held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kelley congratulated members for persevering through an administration that seemed to union officials focused on the eradication of collective bargaining at federal agencies. He then quickly pivo
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The number of COVID-19 deaths in children continues to rise in the United States, as the country hit the mark of half a million deaths over a year since the first victim succumbed to the virus.
As of Sunday afternoon, according to count estimates, the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus reached 500,002. Even as more Americans are vaccinated, it is a milestone that shows the significant danger the virus still presents nationally. According to the Veterans Affairs Department, the number of dead rivals the population of Atlanta or Sacramento, California. It is more than twice the number of Americans who died in combat in World War II.