For the fifth consecutive day, Hendrick Health is reporting Trauma Service Area D hospitals, which includes Hendrick Medical Center-Brownwood, has lower than a 15 percent COVID hospitalization rate among its total capacity rate.
Restrictions – such as bar closures and reduced restaurant capacity – will be lifted if the area is below a 15% COVID hospital capacity for seven straight days, which would be Wednesday if the current trend continues.
On Monday, Hendrick Health reported 12.04% of the people hospitalized in Trauma Service Area D are hospitalized for COVID-19, including just nine people at Hendrick Medical Center-Brownwood. Trauma Service Area D includes Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Knox, Mitchell, Nolan, Shackleford, Stephens, Stonewall, Taylor and Throckmorton counties.
Vaccination: How To Get the COVID-19 Vaccine
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When can I get a COVID-19 vaccine?
The vaccine is currently available for the following groups:
1a: Healthcare Workers and Long-Term Care Residents
1b: Frontline Essential Workers, Persons Aged 65 years and Older, People Living in Correctional Facilities, Homeless Shelters and Migrant Labor Camps, and Persons Aged 16-64 years with a high-risk medical condition or disability that increases their risk of severe illness from COVID-19.
Vaccine supply is limited. It will take time to vaccinate people included in Phase 1b. Local health districts across Virginia are working as quickly as possible to vaccinate people eligible for Phases 1a and 1b.
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Why It is Critical for Workers in Out-of-School Settings to Qualify for Vaccine Eligibility Within the Education Sector
The American Camp Association, along with the Afterschool Alliance, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, JCC Association of North America, and the YMCA of the USA, make a strong case to have out-of-school time workers eligible for COVID-19 vaccine at the same time as the Education sector. Martinsville, IN, December 22, 2020 (PR.com) Last Thursday, December 10, the American Camp Association (ACA), along with the Afterschool Alliance, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, JCC Association of North America, and the YMCA of the USA, made a strong case to have out-of-school time workers supporting the education of our children and adult learners in a myriad of settings classified as “Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers” and made eligible for vaccinations coincident with other workers in the Education sector as defined the Department of Homeland
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On December 8, 2020, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff issued Executive Order NW-18 regarding efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. NW-18 rescinds all previous Bexar County Executive Orders and any Supplemental Executive Orders and will be in force until fourteen (14) days following the termination of the statewide public health emergency declared by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on March 13, 2020, unless extended, modified, or terminated early by Judge Wolff.
Executive Order NW-18 continues many of the restrictions previously imposed in prior orders as further described in this article. The most notable new requirement is the closure of all bars that hold a permit from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and are not restaurants as defined in Paragraph 6 of Governor Abbott’s GA-32. If a bar met those requirements, it was closed as of 11 p.m. on December 10, 2020, until further notice.
Uber asks governments to prioritize its drivers access to the coronavirus vaccine Follow Us
Question of the Day By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Friday, December 11, 2020
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is urging states to prioritize his company’s drivers when determining who will obtain access to forthcoming COVID-19 vaccines.
“I’m asking governors in all 50 states + DC to prioritize drivers & delivery people for early vaccine access,” Mr. Khosrowshahi tweeted on Thursday. “These frontline workers should get the vaccine before people like me.”
Earlier this month earlier made a similar pitch to the federal government, and wrote to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend the CDC designate its drivers and delivery people as non-health essential workers to gain access to the vaccine first.