SUNDAY CONVERSATION: Infectious disease expert talks COVID-19 vaccine in Katy
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Jennifer Cortes, critical care pharmacist, prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Houston. A group of front line medical workers at Memorial Hermann Hospital were some of the first to receive the recently approved vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine was almost 95 percent effective at preventing patients from contracting COVID-19 and caused no major side effects in a trial of nearly 44,000 people. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)Brett Coomer, MBO / Associated Press
Dr. Linda Yancey is the lead infectious disease expert at Memorial Hermann Hospital Katy. She’s been on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic since the virus made its way to the area.
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) With Christmas approaching, there are warnings for people to be extra careful. An infectious disease doctor with Memorial Hermann says she believes the big surge in COVID-19 cases right now is tied to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday. She also says that if you do gather in person, try to do so outdoors.
Doctor Linda Yancey also suggests instead of meeting face-to-face, try a video conference call like Zoom to connect with friends and family. Have a holiday picnic in the park, Yancey suggested. The weather s a little nippy these days but sunny and beautiful. I would just really discourage people from meeting indoors or in closed settings for long periods of time. That is a recipe for spreading COVID.
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A spike in COVID-19 cases combined with the holidays make for an extraordinary amount of stress. For ways to deal with it, I called Alejandro Chaoul. For decades, working with MD Anderson Cancer Hospital, he’s researched the therapeutic effects of meditation and Tibetan yoga; and he’s the founding director of the Jung Center’s Mind Body Spirit Institute. Chaoul spoke with me sitting cross-legged on the floor of his wife’s family’s house in Costa Rica, where the family was quarantining.
Houston healthcare workers on frontlines prep for COVID-19 vaccinations
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The much-anticipated shipments of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine left its facility in Michigan on Sunday and are slated to arrive at 145 distribution centers on Monday.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Nine months into the pandemic, the moment has arrived for Houston-area hospitals to receive their first shipments of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine. The much-anticipated shipments of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine left its facility in Michigan on Sunday and are slated to arrive at 145 distribution centers on Monday.
The rollout of the vaccine couldn t come soon enough, as the U.S. is set to record its 300,000th death due to COVID-19 this week, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Memorial Hermann Hospital expected to receive COVID-19 vaccine shipments by early Monday
Shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine were scheduled to arrive in Houston by Monday morning.
HOUSTON - The COVID-19 vaccine is on its way to Houston and is just hours from arriving.
Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine shipped from a production facility in Michigan this morning and is set to arrive here in Houston this evening or in the early morning hours tomorrow. This is the light at the end of the tunnel,” says Memorial Hermann Hospital Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Linda Yancey who says after treating and watching some patients die for months, now there s a chance to get COVID-19 under control.