Health system applies for mass-vaccination status; vaccine supply limited With high demand for the COVID-19 vaccine, Tanner Health System is working to make
Frontline healthcare workers first vaccinated
On the morning of Dec. 22, the two nondescript delivery trucks backed up to the docks of Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton and Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, offloading the first doses of the vaccine that along with continued public health measures will give the region a chance to turn around the COVID-19 pandemic.
The hospitals received almost 2,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine enough to inoculate the frontline healthcare workers and medical staff who have battled the pandemic since the first cases appeared in March.
The health system began to administer the vaccines Tuesday afternoon.
“I think it’s important for people to remember even if they’re low-risk that we’re doing this for the at-risk people,” said Richard Warren, MD, a board-certified emergency medicine physician who was among the first to receive the vaccine. “The truth is, in the job we do and the place where we work, we’re natural spreaders.
Lauren Leatherby, John Keefe, Lucy Tompkins, Charlie Smart and Matthew Conlen, The New York Times
Published: 10 Dec 2020 01:52 PM BdST
Updated: 10 Dec 2020 01:52 PM BdST More than a third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of intensive care beds, federal data show, revealing a newly detailed picture of the nation’s hospital crisis during the deadliest week of the Covid-19 epidemic. The New York Times
In El Paso, Texas, hospitals reported that just 13 of 400 intensive care beds were not occupied last week. In Fargo, North Dakota, there were just three. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, there were zero.
Eric Nagourney and Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times Published: 10 Dec 2020 09:48 PM BdST Updated: 10 Dec 2020 09:48 PM BdST An El Paso County Sheriff s Officer tries to block photographs from being taken as bodies are moved to refrigerated trailers, deployed during a surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths, outside the County of El Paso Medical Examiners Office in El Paso, Texas, US November 16, 2020. Reuters
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Late Wednesday in the United States, the daily death toll exceeded the record set just one week earlier: 2,885.
By midnight it had climbed to 3,053, and total deaths since the coronavirus spread into the country at the beginning of the year and began laying siege had reached 289,529.
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