Patient injected with empty syringe at UCHealth COVID-19 vaccination clinic
Spokesperson says incident was isolated to this one case
Carl Winder (KOAA)
and last updated 2021-02-05 18:59:51-05
SOUTHERN COLORADO â News 5 Investigates was first to uncover a contracted nurse injected a patient with an empty syringe at the Pueblo Mall s COVID-19 clinic last month.
Our report resulted in health leaders calling a press conference and promoting new safety protocols and better oversight to ensure an issue like this does not happen again.
Since then, News 5 has learned about a second vaccine error, this time with a UCHealth clinic in Colorado Springs.
Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze.
The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last August, two years after being badly burned in a car crash.
âI knew it would be baby steps all the way,â Mr DiMeo told The Associated Press.
âYouâve got to have a lot of motivation, a lot of patience. And youâve got to stay strong through everything.â
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oftly, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 at NYU Langone Health in New York, six months after an extremely rare double hand and face transplant. During the medical checkup, he practiced raising his eyebrows, opening and closing his eyes, puckering his mouth, giving a thumbs up and whistling. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)(AP)
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New York Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze.
The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last August, two years after being badly burned in a car crash. I knew it would be baby steps all the way, DiMeo told The Associated Press recently. You ve got to have a lot of motivation, a lot of patience. And you ve got to stay strong through everything.
New York: Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze.
The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last August, two years after being badly burned in a car crash.
“I knew it would be baby steps all the way, DiMeo told The Associated Press recently. “You ve got to have a lot of motivation, a lot of patience. And you ve got to stay strong through everything.”
Experts say it appears the surgery at NYU Langone Health was a success, but warn it ll take some time to say for sure.
Sandy Hausman has details.
When it’s finished, the new Apex building will be Virginia’s tallest structure made from mass timber – enormous panels of two-by-fours layered and glued together for strength. Architect Eric Ross says construction is 30-40% faster than building with concrete and steel.
“These are really uniquely prefabricated, highly engineered elements that come to the site and get put together like an erector set, he explains. They will assemble a floor per week.”
The wood holds onto carbon while new trees are planted to replace those that were cut down.
“That sustainably harvested wood has sequestered carbon through its growth, and then the manufacturer is replanting the forest at a rate twice if not more than what they took out. So we’ve lowered our carbon footprint from the beginning,” he says.