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No health care workers: The risk threatening Venezuela 3 minutes read By Gonzalo Dominguez Loeda Caracas, May 19 (EFE).- The focus of the health care crisis in Venezuela has often been placed on the country’s infrastructure and not on the workers, who for years have been continuing to leave the sector. Now, the conditions in which they work amid the Covid-19 pandemic – according to their own figures – have taken the lives of 549 of them and they are sounding a dire warning: Venezuela may soon find itself without health care workers. “From 2014 to 2019, there was a very significant m...
Some Michiganders are jumping to the front of the line for coronavirus vaccines — putting themselves ahead of the state's most vulnerable. "People are scamming the system," said Dr. Arnold Monto, a professor of epidemiology and global public health at the University of Michigan. Monto, an octogenarian who lives in Ann Arbor and serves as acting chair of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, said he hasn't yet been vaccinated. With the demand so high and the supply of vaccines so low, Monto said he's holding out to mak...
Share January 17, 2021, 9:44 AM Are you under 65 and non-essential? You're probably not supposed to have a Covid shot. And yet, somehow, some of you do. From the Freep: One of those loopholes was exploited through the St. Joseph Mercy Health System. There, a web link created for doctors, nurses and other health care workers to make appointments to get their shots was "in some cases ... shared publicly, resulting in unexpected submissions beyond 1A participants," said spokeswoman Laura Blodgett. "As we move forward with vaccine administration of our community, we are i...