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This is just unreal as to how this could have happened. If someone has follow ups with news explaining HOW... please share.
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This is just unreal as to how this could have happened. If someone has follow ups with news explaining HOW... please share.
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Was it a distribution error???
Packed in with quantities of the vaccine?
"The moment that we were notified of what happened, we acted right away to correct it, and we immediately reviewed and strengthened our protocols to enhance our distribution process to prevent this from happening again," Maj. Gen. James Hoyer, adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard, said in a press release.
"While this injection is not harmful, it was substituted for the vaccine ..." Dr. Clay Marsh, the state's COVID-19 czar, said.
42 people in West Virginia mistakenly given Regeneron antibody treatment instead of the coronavirus vaccine
Officials insisted no other vaccine shipments had been affected and reassured residents that no other West Virginians had been accidentally given the wrong drug.
42 injected with Regeneron instead of COVID-19 vaccine in WV | Daily Mail Online
This is horrifying.
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Oh I noticed this earlier and meant to comment/question. Testing seems to at least leveled off. Holidays ? Weather related? Backlogged?
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Iowa numbers and news for Wed. Dec. 30 and Thurs. Dec. 31
Dec. 30: Iowa reports 1,652 new cases, 10 more deaths
Dec. 31: 1,703 new COVID-19 cases reported in Iowa, 69 more deaths
Not all nursing home staff signing up for COVID-19 vaccines
Iowa care facility reports 97% of residents received COVID-19 vaccine
More than 25,000 Iowans have received COVID-19 vaccine
Dec. 30: Iowa reports 1,652 new cases, 10 more deaths
Dec. 31: 1,703 new COVID-19 cases reported in Iowa, 69 more deaths
Not all nursing home staff signing up for COVID-19 vaccines
Iowa care facility reports 97% of residents received COVID-19 vaccine
More than 25,000 Iowans have received COVID-19 vaccine
The worst part of this was that he deliberately tried to conceal the trip by pre-taping social media posts, etc... just disgusting.
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In Sydney the fireworks soared into the sky above the Opera House, but the harbour below was empty. In New York, Times Square will be mostly deserted. No light show illuminated Beijing from the top of the TV tower.
With revelry around the world curtailed by lockdowns and curfews imposed to stem the spread of Covid-19, the lions of London’s Trafalgar Square will be barricaded off, and there will be no crowds in St Peter’s Square and no one diving into the Tiber in Rome.
This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other as many people bid farewell to a year they would much prefer to forget – one that has seen more than 1.7 million people killed and 82 million infected by the coronavirus since January.
“What a hell of a year it’s been,” said Gladys Berejiklian, premier of New South Wales state. “Hopefully 2021 will be easier on all of us.”
“And never have we, despite all the worries and some scepticism, looked forward to the new one with so much hope,” said Angela Merkel.
In Britain, “Covid loves a crowd”.
In Italy, Pope Francis cancelled plans to lead New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day services ....
Putin said ... many medical workers would be “on duty this festive night” and calling for responsibility.
World takes in muted New Year's Eve under Covid shadow
With revelry around the world curtailed by lockdowns and curfews imposed to stem the spread of Covid-19, the lions of London’s Trafalgar Square will be barricaded off, and there will be no crowds in St Peter’s Square and no one diving into the Tiber in Rome.
This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other as many people bid farewell to a year they would much prefer to forget – one that has seen more than 1.7 million people killed and 82 million infected by the coronavirus since January.
“What a hell of a year it’s been,” said Gladys Berejiklian, premier of New South Wales state. “Hopefully 2021 will be easier on all of us.”
“And never have we, despite all the worries and some scepticism, looked forward to the new one with so much hope,” said Angela Merkel.
In Britain, “Covid loves a crowd”.
In Italy, Pope Francis cancelled plans to lead New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day services ....
Putin said ... many medical workers would be “on duty this festive night” and calling for responsibility.
World takes in muted New Year's Eve under Covid shadow
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excellent!
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I am shocked that a pharmacist would do this!! I have multiple pre-existing conditions and want to be vaccinated asap. These stories of people being injected with the wrong medicine and a pharmacist sabotaging the vaccine are really upsetting. Looks like the man in question is still in jail.
LadyL
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I didn’t realize the doses were administered as well... so good thing this was realized actually.
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Happy New Year! We are already about 35 minutes into 2021, with 2020 behind us now. So far, so good.
Happy New Year to you, South Aussie!
All of you in Oz and in NZ should have the greatest celebration of all! Your nations have acted heroically and with supreme rationality in the face of this COVID disaster.
And you, personally, are a beacon for us here at WS.
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Canadian Minister Busted Vacationing In St Barts While Using Twitter To Pretend He Is At Home On Lockdown
“He posted this Christmas Eve video, sat at his fireplace, sipping eggnog — when he was really on a Caribbean beach.”
“In one particularly cringe-inducing video, posted at 7.30 AM on December 24, he is sat in front of his fireplace in a thick sweater, sipping eggnog and flanked by a gingerbread house to one side and a mini Xmas tree to the other.”
Looks more like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree....sad.
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How deceitful.
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Nurse at Mass General Brigham blasts hospital system’s vaccine rollout | Boston.com
A neonatal intensive care unit nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital appeared on CNN and blasted the hospital system’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in recent weeks.
Jennifer DeVincent said in a Wednesday interview with the network that when the news arrived that vaccines were approved and their rollout was imminent, the excitement and anticipation among frontline health care workers was “unreal.”
“We were so excited — just to be able to have that extra protection for us, that safety,” she told Brooke Baldwin. “And when it rolled out, it didn’t quite go as we planned. It was definitely a slap in the face.”
The plan for the vaccine rollout across Mass General Brigham included the use of an app for staff to sign up for vaccination appointments, with staff assigned to “waves” aimed at prioritizing workers at highest risk, NPR reported. But the plan instructed staff to “self-police” and relied on an “honor code” to follow the assigned waves.
Some healthcare workers refuse to take COVID-19 vaccine, even with priority access
They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it.
At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health officials.
So many frontline workers in Riverside County have refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that hospital and public officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses, Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said.
The vaccine doubts swirling among healthcare workers across the country come as a surprise to researchers, who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data backing the vaccines.
In Arizona, a shortage of public health staffers is slowing the vaccine rollout
SUN CITY, Ariz. — The need for a Covid-19 vaccine is as urgent in Arizona as anywhere else. Numbers show that the coronavirus is spreading faster here than in almost any other state, and Arizona is home to a large number of older people who tend to be at higher risk of dying if they contract the virus.
But that doesn't mean vaccine doses are flying off the shelves. Instead, 4 out of 5 doses that arrived in Arizona by early this week hadn't been used, waiting for someone qualified to give the shots.
The halting rollout has sparked anger and disappointment nationwide, even as officials said there was still plenty of time to pick up the pace of vaccinations before they start for the general public.
At least in Arizona, one reason for the slow pace was frustratingly simple: Years of belt-tightening and neglect of state and local health budgets mean there aren't enough trained people to administer vaccinations, current and former government officials said.
Nurse at Mass General Brigham blasts hospital system’s vaccine rollout | Boston.com
A neonatal intensive care unit nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital appeared on CNN and blasted the hospital system’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in recent weeks.
Jennifer DeVincent said in a Wednesday interview with the network that when the news arrived that vaccines were approved and their rollout was imminent, the excitement and anticipation among frontline health care workers was “unreal.”
“We were so excited — just to be able to have that extra protection for us, that safety,” she told Brooke Baldwin. “And when it rolled out, it didn’t quite go as we planned. It was definitely a slap in the face.”
The plan for the vaccine rollout across Mass General Brigham included the use of an app for staff to sign up for vaccination appointments, with staff assigned to “waves” aimed at prioritizing workers at highest risk, NPR reported. But the plan instructed staff to “self-police” and relied on an “honor code” to follow the assigned waves.
Some healthcare workers refuse to take COVID-19 vaccine, even with priority access
They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it.
At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health officials.
So many frontline workers in Riverside County have refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that hospital and public officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses, Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said.
The vaccine doubts swirling among healthcare workers across the country come as a surprise to researchers, who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data backing the vaccines.
In Arizona, a shortage of public health staffers is slowing the vaccine rollout
SUN CITY, Ariz. — The need for a Covid-19 vaccine is as urgent in Arizona as anywhere else. Numbers show that the coronavirus is spreading faster here than in almost any other state, and Arizona is home to a large number of older people who tend to be at higher risk of dying if they contract the virus.
But that doesn't mean vaccine doses are flying off the shelves. Instead, 4 out of 5 doses that arrived in Arizona by early this week hadn't been used, waiting for someone qualified to give the shots.
The halting rollout has sparked anger and disappointment nationwide, even as officials said there was still plenty of time to pick up the pace of vaccinations before they start for the general public.
At least in Arizona, one reason for the slow pace was frustratingly simple: Years of belt-tightening and neglect of state and local health budgets mean there aren't enough trained people to administer vaccinations, current and former government officials said.
weepingangel
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Implications of Shortened Quarantine Among Household Contacts of Index Patients with Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Tennessee and Wisconsin, April–September 2020 | MMWR
Implications of Shortened Quarantine Among Household...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Weekly / January 1, 2021 / 69(5152);1633–1637
Melissa A. Rolfes, PhD1; Carlos G. Grijalva, MD2; Yuwei Zhu, MD2; Huong Q. McLean, PhD3; Kayla E. Hanson, MPH3; Edward A. Belongia, MD3; Natasha B. Halasa, MD2; Ahra Kim, MPH2; Jennifer Meece, PhD3; Carrie Reed, DSc2; H. Keipp Talbot, MD2; Alicia M. Fry, MD1 (View author affiliations)
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Summary
What is already known about this topic?
After exposure to COVID-19, a 14-day quarantine period can prevent further spread but might be challenging to maintain.
What is added by this report?
Among persons exposed to COVID-19 in the household who were asymptomatic and had negative laboratory test results through 7 days after symptom onset in the index patient, 19% experienced symptoms or received positive test results in the following week.
What are the implications for public health practice?
A shorter quarantine after household exposure to COVID-19 might be easier to adhere to but poses some risk for onward transmission. Persons released from quarantine before 14 days should continue to avoid close contact and wear masks when around others until 14 days after their last exposure.
Implications of Shortened Quarantine Among Household Contacts of Index Patients with Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Tennessee and Wisconsin, April–September 2020 | MMWR
Implications of Shortened Quarantine Among Household...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Weekly / January 1, 2021 / 69(5152);1633–1637
Melissa A. Rolfes, PhD1; Carlos G. Grijalva, MD2; Yuwei Zhu, MD2; Huong Q. McLean, PhD3; Kayla E. Hanson, MPH3; Edward A. Belongia, MD3; Natasha B. Halasa, MD2; Ahra Kim, MPH2; Jennifer Meece, PhD3; Carrie Reed, DSc2; H. Keipp Talbot, MD2; Alicia M. Fry, MD1 (View author affiliations)
View suggested citation
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
After exposure to COVID-19, a 14-day quarantine period can prevent further spread but might be challenging to maintain.
What is added by this report?
Among persons exposed to COVID-19 in the household who were asymptomatic and had negative laboratory test results through 7 days after symptom onset in the index patient, 19% experienced symptoms or received positive test results in the following week.
What are the implications for public health practice?
A shorter quarantine after household exposure to COVID-19 might be easier to adhere to but poses some risk for onward transmission. Persons released from quarantine before 14 days should continue to avoid close contact and wear masks when around others until 14 days after their last exposure.
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From the above link:
“As with so many things this year — The Simpsons called it:”
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