With more people eligible for the vaccine, are people worried about line-cutters?
This comes at a time when Sacramento County says vaccine supply is still very limited and they do not have an increase in supply, despite the new qualifications. Author: Lena Howland (ABC10) Updated: 8:36 PM PDT March 16, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Now that patients, ages 16 to 64, with serious underlying health conditions can get the vaccine, health officials are concerned this could open the door to more people cutting the line and taking a vaccine away from someone who needs it more than them.
58-year-old Scott Benesch has been trying to get a vaccine appointment for two-and-a-half months.
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InVixa announces licensing deal with University of California, Davis for the commercialization of novel inhaled statins for the treatment of COVID-19
19 January 2021 – Davis, California, USA – InVixa Inc (‘InVixa’), a biopharmaceutical start-up developing inhaled statins to treat COVID-19, announced today an exclusive licensing deal with the University of California, Davis, a leading US academic and medical institution. COVID-19 caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2, typically manifests as severe lung disease that can progress to acute respiratory failure. This deal provides InVixa with the rights to the intellectual property in order to commercialize inhaled statins for the treatment of COVID-19 and other viral-based respiratory diseases. Financials we
Some twentysomethings with social media jobs are getting COVID-19 vaccines before senior citizens.
More than a third of the Pfizer and Moderna doses in California appear to be unused, but health officials say they can’t give out shots more quickly.
And problems with the state’s data systems have left officials in the dark about how many doses have actually been administered, clouding the picture of the state’s progress.
California has administered more than 3.45 million injections, by far the most in the country, but for weeks ranked among the slowest per capita in vaccinating its population and in using up the doses allocated by federal officials, data show.
Moderna is creating a booster shot for its COVID-19 vaccine to help protect against variants. California lifts regional stay-at-home orders, and social isolation may contribute to drug overdoses.
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Californians got some welcome news on Monday. Governor Gavin Newsom lifted regional stay-at-home orders. He cited a drop in coronavirus infections and hospitalizations. But as NPR s Eric Westervelt reports, that good news is tempered by ongoing problems with the vaccine rollout.
ERIC WESTERVELT, BYLINE: The lifting of the stay-at-home order is welcome relief to some struggling businesses, including restaurants that in some places can now resume outdoor dining. But county and local officials can still maintain closures and other restrictions, as several are set to do. And while the worst of the winter surge may be over, California is near the bottom in state-per-capita coronavirus vaccination. Critics say the problems stem from vaccine shortages and the fact that the vaccine goes through county health departments, many of which are overwhelmed.