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What vaccines have been approved? Currently, two COVID-19 vaccines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and New York state’s independent Clinical Advisory Task Force: one that was developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and another that was developed by Moderna. – Who is eligible to be vaccinated now? New York state’s vaccination plan includes a phased rollout of vaccine. Phase 1 has been divided into two tiers, 1A and 1B. New York state is in Phase 1A and 1B of distribution. Eligible New Yorkers in Phase 1A and 1B are: ¯ High-risk hospital workers (emergency r...

the News staff ALBANY — The state Department of Health this week detailed the COVID-19 vaccine plan as New York continues in Phase 1a and begins to serve the initial groups from Phase 1b. The following information was provided by the DOH online at https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov. — – High-risk hospital workers (emergency room workers, ICU staff and Pulmonary Department staff) – Residents and staff at nursing homes and other congregate care facilities – Federally Qualified Health Center employees – EMS workers – Staff and residents at OPWDD, OMH and OASAS facilities ...

Poor planning and bureaucracy slow vaccination of nursing homes David Hogberg © Provided by Washington Examiner In mid-December, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar suggested that most nursing homes would receive the coronavirus vaccine by Christmas. In fact, most vaccinations of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities didn’t begin until after the holiday. Popular Searches While Azar’s prediction was surely far too rosy, it highlights a process that has been delayed due to poor planning and bureaucratic red tape. Most states have joined with the feder...

Maine: Send Walgreen's Vaccine Doses to Hospitals The pharmacy chain didn’t have immediate plans to administer the vaccines, the Maine CDC said. Walgreens confirmed that appointments hadn’t yet been scheduled at long-term care facilities to use the doses, Robert Long, spokesperson for the Maine CDC, told the newspaper. The 1,950 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will go to the Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center. Walgreens indicated it “did in fact have doses on hand, and they could not tell us when they indicated that they would put them in...

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,”...