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'Stay home' plea in Forest Town after 'staggering' surge in Covid-19 infections Forest Town currently has almost 1,000 cases for every 100,000 people Updated A Covid-19 testing centre at County Hall, West Bridgford. (Image: Nottingham Post/Marie Wilson) Never miss another Mansfield story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newsle...

Final Call News Concerns about safety and efficacy topped reasons why some medical personnel, firefighters and others are not taking Covid-19 vaccines. Many frontline nurses say information about the vaccines is lacking. Katarina Thompson, a registered nurse, is also the Service Employees International Union’s chief spokesperson on Covid-19 for its healthcare workers. Her number one goal, especially with the coronavirus surging, is looking at ways to keep health workers safe versus any vaccination risks. “We encourage our members to strongly consider becoming vaccinated for the flu ...

Print When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended last month that residents and staff of long-term care facilities be among the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, Sondra Norder breathed a sigh of relief. The president and CEO of St. Paul Elder Services in Wisconsin has seen 100 residents contract COVID-19 across her two campuses over the course of the pandemic. Twenty-eight have died. “The trauma we have been through, the isolation we have been through, the demand physically and mentally over the last 10 months — we’ve just been disproportionately impacted,”...

Jan 11, 2021 Officials working to get the COVID-19 vaccine to those who need it most have run into an unfathomable problem. Health care workers are buying into the nonsense that the vaccine might not be safe, and are refusing the shot. Not all of them are so bull-headed, of course. Many are doing the right thing and getting the shots so they are safe AND they are doing their part to keep their patients safe. But in both nursing homes and hospitals across the country, a disturbing percentage of workers are falling prey to entirely unfounded fears — helped along by the lies and conspiracy th...

More than three weeks into the vaccination campaign, some places are seeing as much as 80 percent of their staff holding back.