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Chuck Henry, health officer for the Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County, told county commissioners Wednesday morning that the state is working on several pilot reservation systems that are supposed to be ready soon. The project, he said, has been delayed because of technical difficulties.  Henry said that locally the county is looking at using Everbridge, which is already used for emergency response. That system would allow residents to use the phone or a computer to register. People are then placed in an “electronic line” and when vaccines come in, those in line can be pull...

As Lynchburg-area officials plan out COVID-19 immunizations for different sectors of the community, a number of health care workers remain unvaccinated by choice. It’s been almost a month since the first round of vaccination doses arrived in Lynchburg, intended for health workers, nursing home workers and nursing home residents. Since then, multiple sites have been inoculating those residents and workers: front-line emergency workers first, followed by others in health professions. Workers and volunteers at the Free Clinic of Central Virginia and its cousin site, Community Access Network...

I received my first dose of Pfizer's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020 and received the second dose on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Truthfully — I was nervous. Although tens of millions of Americans still wait for their chance to be vaccinated, I found myself uniquely positioned for early voluntary access because of my job at the United States Department of State. I have a privileged background and have no issue discussing it. My parents are Ivy Leaguers. My father is an anesthesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic medical center. I have a law degree and many friends and colleagues who are p...

Detroit appointment center overloaded as 100,000 callers seek vaccine Vaccinations will take place starting Wednesday for some Detroiters City gets at least five times more calls than it has appointment slots available, but not all callers meet requirements for vaccine City of Detroit Detroit Department of Transportation bus drivers got vaccinated against COVID-19 starting Friday as the city ramps up its vaccination efforts. The city of Detroit opened a call center Monday morning to get 20,000 vaccine appointments made for senior citizens and essential workers, but just four hours in it had r...

Studies such as “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” — commonly known as the Tuskegee Experiment — have bred distrust.