Lauran Neergaard And Joseph B. Frederick January 20, 2021 - 10:41 PM
NEW YORK - Lani Muller doesnât have to visit a doctorâs office to help test an experimental COVID-19 vaccine â she just climbs into a bloodmobile-like van that parks on a busy street near her New York City neighbourhood.
The U.S. is rightly fixated on the chaotic rollout of the first two authorized vaccines to fight the pandemic. But with more vaccines in the pipeline â critical to boosting global supplies â scientists worry whether enough volunteers will join and stick with the testing needed to prove if they, too, really work.
Mobile labs take vaccine studies to diverse neighborhoods
Lauran Neergaard And Joseph B. Frederick
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Nurse Brianne Stockman, left, prepares to draw some blood from study participant Lani Muller in a mobile medical unit parked in the Queens borough of New York, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. With more vaccines in the pipeline, scientists worry whether enough volunteers will join and stick with the testing needed to prove if they, too, really work. To help, researchers in more than a dozen spots around the country are rolling out mobile health clinics to better reach minority participants and people in rural areas who might not otherwise volunteer. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Meatpacking Industry Pushes for Worker Vaccinations
Big meatpacking companies like Tyson and JBS are working to get their employees vaccination quickly to avoid more coronavirus cases in meatpacking facilities.
By Nikki Johnson-Bolden
Jan 21, 2021
As COVID-19 cases rise within the meatpacking industry, top meatpacking companies and unions are advocating for meatpacking workers to be a priority vaccination group, according to Bloomberg Government.
Various meatpacking facilities have been cited by OSHA for COVID-19 violations. The Food Environment Reporting Network reports 53,620 positive coronavirus cases and 269 deaths among meatpacking employees as of Jan. 15.
Companies such as Tyson Food, JBS and Cargill Inc. are attempting to get workers vaccinated. Tyson has partnered with Matrix Medical Network, a clinical services company, as part of the company’s effort to vaccinate its employees. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union also wrote a letter on Dec. 23
Norwalk health payments innovator files for $100M IPO
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The headquarters office of Remedy Partners at 800 Connecticut Ave. in Norwalk, Conn.Alexander Soule / Hearst Connecticut Media
Nearly a decade after its launch and expansion under Obamacare, an innovative insurance company with its roots in Norwalk is going public.
Texas-based Signify Health has plans to raise $100 million selling shares to trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 2019, Signify Health spent $405 million to acquire Remedy Partners, which was created eight years earlier in Norwalk by Oxford Health Plans founder Steve Wiggins. His idea was to develop a new system for health insurance, with premiums and payments pegged to “episodes of care” covering the span of a patient’s treatment and recovery from an ailment.
Tyson, JBS, Cargill, Perdue prepare to vaccinate workforce
Labor groups urge Biden to develop national safety standard January 19, 2021 6:00 AM By Fatima Hussein and Megan U. Boyanton
Meatpacking workers and their employers are pushing to the front of the line for coronavirus vaccinations as state governments roll out their distribution plans to combat the pandemic.
President-elect Joe Bidenâs administration is pushing to implement an emergency temporary standard that would compel most American workplaces to develop Covid safety protocols in line with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the meatpacking industry â where workers still donât maintain the recommended six-foot social distance â will face particular scrutiny after a series of large-scale infections.