Governors work to expedite vaccine effort after slow start
By Michael R. Smith
Biden criticizes pace of coronavirus vaccine rollout, vows to accelerate
President-elect Joe Biden on Dec. 29 gave remarks on the state of the pandemic and criticized the Trump administration for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines, saying it is falling behind.
New York’s governor threatened to fine hospitals if they don t use their allotment of COVID-19 vaccine fast enough. His South Carolina counterpart warned health care workers they have until Jan. 15 to get a shot or move to the back of the line. California’s governor wants to use dentists to vaccinate people.
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Hope : Burned out health workers buoyed by vaccine
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Washington (AFP)
As an anesthesiologist in a slammed emergency department, Raymond Pla has to handle Covid patients ventilators, one of the riskiest jobs in the pandemic.
On Monday he was one of five front line workers at George Washington University Hospital to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
A single word captured what it meant to him: Hope.
The doctor might have felt excited to be among the first in the world to get injected with molecules of synthetic messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), the cutting-edge technology proven to be 95 percent effective in preventing Covid-19.