A syringe filled with COVID-19 vaccine at North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Dec. 17, 2020.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, medical residents at the CU School of Medicine have been working with COVID-19 patients. As the hospitals they work at started to get Pfizer vaccines for frontline health care workers this month, residents were excited and relieved. But, in the first week of vaccine distribution they said they were treated as less of a priority than other medical professionals working with COVID-19 patients.
“It really felt like a willful disregard for our health and wellbeing,” said a senior resident who works at both Denver Health and UCHealth. “It felt like we were forgotten that no one had even considered to include 1,200 members of the health-care workforce in this plan to vaccinate people in the first round of vaccinations.”
Senator Darryl Rouson Delivers Donated Oculus 2 VR Headsets, Tablets, and UVC Test Cards to All Children’s Hospital
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The War On Flu Inc. reached out to Senator Darryl Rouson to ensure terminally ill children at all children’s hospitals have something to smile about this Christmas while keeping within the guidelines of social distancing amidst a pandemic holiday season unlike anything ever witnessed for more than a century.
Jason Labossiere reached out to Senator Darryl Rouson to ensure terminally ill children at all children s hospital have something to smile about this Christmas
Senator Rouson added, “I am proud that children in healing at a world-class medical institution in Senate District 19 will benefit from this incredible gift.”
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It took a lot to develop the two COVID-19 vaccines that are now being distributed in the U.S., including volunteers who agreed to participate in trials. Some of those study participants got a vaccine. Others got a placebo. Since the trials were double-blind, neither the volunteers nor the administrators knew who got what. And so now that the vaccines have received emergency approval, there s a question. Should volunteers who got the placebo be offered the vaccine? Should the studies be unblinded? When an FDA advisory committee dug into this question about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, Dr. Steven Goodman of Stanford School of Medicine presented, and he s with us now.
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The White House announced it has secured another 100 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Americans got some good news on Wednesday morning when the White House announced that it had secured another 100 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar released a statement afterward saying the U.S. will now have enough supply to vaccinate every American who wants it by June 2021.
Even with these announcements questions remain on how exactly everyone will get vaccinated. States are having varying levels of success with the vaccine rollout process. Dr. Jose Romero, Arkansas health secretary and chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immunization advisory committee, discusses the success Arkansas has had with vaccine distribution and the lessons lear