While local hospital leaders aren’t sounding the alarm about capacity concerns, we heard a similar story from leaders at St. Luke’s and Houston Methodist: hospital beds and emergency rooms are regularly filling up as both health systems continue to manage coronavirus patients on top of all the folks finally heading.
Over a year after the first cases of COVID-19 began to appear worldwide, the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines has rolled out nationally.
Dr. Brad Lembcke, Chief Medical Officer at St. Luke s Health, joins Town Square to discuss how St. Luke’s has prepared to dispense and store the vaccine in minus 70 Celsius freezers and the logistics to dispense a temperature delicate vaccine.
Then, Ernie is joined by Dr. Jill Weatherhead, Asst. Professor, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Baylor College of Medicine who discusses how the mRNA-based vaccine works and answers listeners questions about COVID-19.
Town Square with Ernie Manouse is a gathering space for the community to come together and discuss the day s most important and pressing issues.