County health departments in Utah are taking COVID-19 vaccine clinics to high schools, to get doses to 16- and 17-year-olds before the school year is out.
However, it says it did not have a choice.
The department reported the vaccinations happened at the very beginning of the vaccine rollout. Spokesperson Amy Bate noted the department received these doses between Christmas and New Year s Day.
This was before the state opened the vaccination process to people in the general public over the age of 70; before anyone had registered to receive it. Bate reported those vaccines were earmarked for first responders and health care workers, but many of those people declined.
The doses delivered had been thawed and some vials had already been opened. We had vials of vaccine that was thawed and it has to be used in a certain amount of time. When you open it, it has to be used in a shorter amount of time, Bate said.
Hong Kong Protesters Jailed For Airport Assault On Mainland Reporter
01/08/21 AT 5:09 AM
Three Hong Kong democracy supporters were jailed for up to five and a half years on Friday for their involvement in a protest at the city s airport where a mainland Chinese state media reporter was tied up and assaulted.
Hong Kong was rocked by seven straight months of huge and sometimes violent democracy protests in 2019 which China has since stamped out with a crackdown.
At one point, protesters converged on and blockaded the airport for two days causing travel chaos.
During the protests, some of those in the crowd turned on two people they accused of being Chinese spies or undercover police.
Reuters Mass arrests in Hong Kong and independent journalists imprisoned in Vietnam
A website dedicated to publishing first-hand accounts of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement has warned its users to prepare for large-scale internet blocks, filters, and censorship in future, in the first indication that China may be exporting its Great Firewall to the city under a draconian national security law that took effect on July 1.
The HKChronicles website started receiving reports from users based in Hong Kong that they were no longer able to access the site late on Jan. 6, the site s founder and chief editor Naomi Chan said in a statement.