ATCEMS, AFD, first responders receive first round of COVID-19 vaccine
By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team
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AUSTIN, Texas - Some area paramedics and EMTs in the Austin area are receiving their COVID-19 vaccines even sooner than expected thanks to a partnership with the University of Texas at Austin.
As part of the 1A vaccine distribution group as designated by DSHS, ATCEMS expected shipments of vaccinations for their front line EMTs and Paramedics to arrive in late December, with the goal of rolling out the vaccine to their personnel before the year’s end. (City of Austin/Travis County)
The COVID-19 vaccination operation currently underway at UT Health Austin is part of a broad collaboration across UT Austin that also includes the School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, University Health Services and the Office of Campus Safety, according to the city of Austin and Travis County. The UT Austin team is also collaborating with Austin Public Health, the City of Austin, Travis
Newark lounge and streetwear brand One Rhule makes it on to internationally-renowned ASOS Marketplace
| Updated: 14:00, 18 December 2020
A couple who created a clothing brand in the first lockdown have made it on to an internationally-renowned site.
Ellis Rhule and Amy Young said making it on to ASOS Marketplace was a snowball effect.
âWhen we found out One Rhule was on ASOS Marketplace, we were really happy because we had only been running for three months,â said Ellis.
Ellis Rhule, of Newark, who has launched his own clothing brand with partner Amy Young.
âFrom going from nothing to this, it shows we may be on to bigger things.
The report, commissioned by eSafety and funded by the Department of Social Services under the
National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children 2010-2022, reveals that where domestic violence practitioners have knowledge of technology-facilitated abuse involving children, monitoring and stalking is the most prevalent type of abuse reported.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz from Griffith Criminology Institute said the research provided clear evidence of the harmful effects of technology-facilitated abuse on children, including impacts on their mental health, education, and relationships with the non-abusive parent, as well as their everyday lives.
“This study provides evidence that children are highly involved in men’s domestic violence against mothers. Rather than being exposed to or witnessing abuse, children play a central role in coercive control,’’ she said.
UT Health Austin was among the first sites in Texas yesterday to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (Courtesy of Dell Medical School)
This morning the first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Austin were administered to frontline healthcare workers at UT-Austin, confirmed Dr. Amy Young, vice dean of professional practice at Dell Medical School and chief clinical officer for UT Health Austin.
The clinical practice for Dell Med, UT Health Austin was one of only four sites in Texas to receive a share of the state’s first vaccine shipment – nearly 3,000 out of 19,500 doses – delivered yesterday alongside Houston’s MD Cancer Center, UT Health San Antonio, and Methodist Dallas Medical Center. UT Health Austin’s distribution will continue for nine days, shared campus officials in a Tuesday press call. “It s recommended that folks that work in the same critical areas are not vaccinated on the same day or successive day,” said Young, who explained
UT Austin receives some of Texas first COVID-19 vaccines
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The vials arrived by ground and were immediately placed in subzero temperature storage, says UT Austin. (UT Austin)
“This has been a long haul for everyone, but especially for the health care providers who have been putting their own lives at risk in taking care of COVID-19 patients on the front lines,” said Amy Young, chief clinical officer of UT Health Austin and vice dean of professional practice at Dell Medical School.
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UT Austin says the 2,925 Pfizer vaccine vials received are the first of two doses earmarked to protect the university’s front-line health care workers, including faculty members, staffers, and students who are involved in clinical care delivery to patients in the Austin community.