New Hampshire gets first 24,000 doses of Moderna vaccine
By HOLLY RAMERDecember 22, 2020 GMT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) New Hampshire’s first shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine have arrived, and will be split between hospitals and sites serving other health care providers and first responders, officials said Tuesday.
The 13 sites, along with mobile units, will start offering vaccines Dec. 29, said Beth Daly, chief of the state Bureau of Infectious Disease Control. In addition to 24,200 doses of the Moderna vaccine, the state was allocated 8,875 doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week, with most of those going to nursing homes, she said.
While the numbers are in flux, the state expects to get about 9,000 doses of each vaccine each week. Officials hope provide the initial shots to the 100,000 people in the first priority group health care workers, nursing home residents and staff and first responders by the end of January, she said.
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Update: Tuesday, Dec. 22, 10:05 p.m.
The state will prioritize COVID testing for students, teachers and school staff when the school year resumes after winter break.
Many New Hampshire schools have closed for the holidays and plan to conduct classes remotely for several weeks into 2021.
At a press conference Tuesday, Gov. Chris Sununu said, when they do return to class, staff and students with COVID symptoms will be able to get an appointment for a test within 24 hours.
“We just want to make sure that students that may require a test to get back into school aren’t being held back, three, four, five, six days or even a week, while awaiting those results,” Sununu said. “We want to make sure those kids can get back into class as quickly as possible.”
Lost painting by famous Lithuanian artist turns up in Chicago garage
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Margarita Alper, LRT TV, LRT.lt2020.12.23 13:30
Steve Gilberg and Robert Zizzo only recently discovered they were in possession of a painting by Kazys Varnelis / photo courtesy of Steve Gilberg and Robert Zizzo
A long-lost painting by the famous American-Lithuanian op art painter Kazys Varnelis turned up in a Chicago garage – where it ended up after being rescued from trash and almost painted over.
It was four years ago that a friend of Steve Gilberg and Robert Zizzo, housesitting while they were away, came across and unusually shaped canvas left by someone in a trash bin.
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LIVE BLOG - CORONAVIRUS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: 21 more deaths, record hospitalizations in New Hampshire
Update: Wednesday, Dec. 23, 3:45 p.m.
New Hampshire health officials today reported 21 deaths from COVID-19, tying December 16th as the highest number of deaths announced in a single day. Of the new deaths, nine patients were female, and twelve were male.
So far, 677 of the state s residents have died from the coronavirus.
The state also announced 571 new coronavirus infections, including 63 individuals under the age of 18. The new cases span all ten of New Hampshire s counties.
Hospitalizations from the virus have reached a record level, at 305. The hospitalization rate of COVID-19 patients in New Hampshire is two percent.