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Naloxone is the medication that can revive someone from an opioid overdose. Now that the majority of Allegheny County adults are vaccinated, public health experts hope that people will choose to use opioids in the presence of someone with naloxone. This increases the chance of the opioid user of being revived if they overdose.
Allegheny County’s Board of Health on Wednesday met in-person for the first time since March 2020.
Most of the board members appeared maskless. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that a fully vaccinated person does not have to cover their face while indoors.
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Second doses of vaccine a must as variant spreads, doctors say
Since the nation s vaccination efforts began in December, millions have received a full dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but as the original virus and its variants spread, health experts say there are concerns about another group those who received the first dose of two-dose courses like Pfizer and Moderna but not the second.
Jul. 10 2021 @ 7:34pm
PITTSBURGH Since the nation s vaccination efforts began in December, millions have received a full dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but as the original virus and its variants spread, health experts say there are concerns about another group those who received the first dose of two-dose courses like Pfizer and Moderna but not the second.
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Eighty percent of Allegheny County’s adult population is at least partially vaccinated against covid-19, officials said Wednesday, a rate that continues to rise as case counts and positivity rates continue to fall.
“Let’s get that last 20%,” said Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, “so we can all feel safe, we can travel, we can go to work, we can be with family – so we can do all the things we want to be able to do.”
The county has seen 97 new cases in the past seven days, and 28 people total were hospitalized with the virus as of Wednesday.
Delta variant found in Allegheny County, but transmission rates and cases remain low bizjournals.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizjournals.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.