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What’s a few million dollars when you’ve trying to re-organize your multi-billion dollar non-profit health insurer into something that more resembles a for-profit entity?
Not much. But it’s enough to put Horizon near the top of the
West New York received 36% of COVID-19 vaccines administered by NHCAC, CEO says
The Town of West New York received 36 percent of the COVID-19 vaccines administered by the North Hudson Community Action Corporation, according to data released by CEO Joan Quigley following Mayor Gabriel Rodriguez exclaiming that his community had been shortchanged as a whole.
Workers at a North Hudson Community Action Corporation vaccination site in Passaic. Facebook photo.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“We thank you for your outstanding cooperation with our policy of allotting vaccination slots to the municipalities we serve according to the population of each community. Under that arrangement, West New York, being the third largest town in our service area, receives 18 percent of the time slots available,” NHCAC CEO Joan Quigley said in an email to Hudson County mayors on Friday.
EMTs should be trained to give COVID vaccine shots | Quigley NJ.com 3/2/2021
Why can’t EMTs vaccinate in New Jersey? We sure could use them.
In places like Florida, Massachusetts and Vermont, EMTs inoculate and that may be one reason why vaccinations in those states exceed numbers here.
Moderna is injected straight out of the vial. No mixing or reconstituting involved.
It’s pretty easy to insert a needle into someone’s muscle in an upper arm. I’m not denigrating the skill, but how many of us had to learn to inject insulin into an elderly relative or insert a needle with hormones into a spouse or partner enrolled in a fertility program?
At a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Fox News reporter Rachel Sutherland asked press secretary Jen Psaki a question about the likely impact on female
Let’s do as Biden asked, put unity back in the United States | Quigley NJ.com 1/26/2021
Why do so many of us cry when happy?
I was on the verge of tears all day Wednesday, Inaugural Day, and they finally spilled over at 10 o’clock as I watched the First Family stand on the White House balcony marveling at the spectacular bursts of fireworks against the brilliant blackness of the clear night sky.
It wasn’t a sobbing, shuddering, ugly kind of crying. I was smiling as tears silently rolled down my face. So many waited so long for such a moment, and some never thought they’d see a day like this.