HUGHESVILLE — Tyler David Morton, 33 of Hughesville (formerly of Milton) passed away Wednesday February 14, 2024, at The Gatehouse UPMC Williamsport, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
Rhode Island health officials plan to offer vaccine by age group, not occupation Published Fri Jan 22 2021 17:30:41 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) In Phase 2 of Rhode Island’s coronavirus vaccine rollout, health officials plan to offer shots to all adults, prioritizing by age, underlying health condition, and geography. by Sofia Rudin
Age will be the top consideration in the next phase of Rhode Island’s coronavirus immunization campaign, health officials said during a presentation to an advisory committee Friday morning.
The state’s draft plan for the second phase of vaccine delivery would start by offering COVID-19 vaccines to adults age 65 and older.
COVID-19 vaccine committee: R.I. needs to make clear why some people are getting vaccine first
THE RHODE ISLAND Vaccine Advisory Committee talked Friday about how to improve public communications about the vaccine, and the order in which it will be administered. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROVIDENCE – Members of a COVID-19 vaccine advisory group said Friday they need more advance notice of distribution plans to better inform the public, and the state needs to make more clear why some people are getting vaccinations before others. The advisory committee, which reports to the R.I. Department of Health, meets weekly. In its…
PROVIDENCE – The complexities and rapidly unfolding challenges of bringing coronavirus vaccines to Rhode Islanders were in sharp focus Friday during a morning virtual meeting of the state Health Department’s COVID-19 Vaccine subcommittee.
A recent development surprise word on Thursday that the state will receive far fewer doses than expected of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine next week prompted committee facilitator McKenzie Morton, a member of the department’s COVID Vaccine Strategy and Planning Team, to declare “that’s a huge hit to the plan… We cannot pretend that we were not thrown for a loop.”
Potentially balancing that is the anticipated emergency use authorization of the Moderna vaccine by the federal Food and Drug Administration on Friday. The FDA’s advisory panel on Thursday gave an overwhelming endorsement to the vaccine, and shipments could begin to Rhode Island and other states on Monday.