Dr. Nancy Nielsen discusses issues related to COVID-19 each Thursday on WBFO.
Dr. Nancy Nielsen is the Senior Associate Dean for Health Policy at UB s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Credit Buffalo.edu Where you can get it right now is the mass vax sites at UB and in Niagara Falls and the county health departments. This week, Wahlgreens at multiple locations has Pfizer, said Nielsen, acknowledging the need to get the vaccine to make the vaccine more accessible. She pointed out some of the obstacles. Remember that Pfizer is the one that requires the ultra-cold storage so the usual doctors offices are not going to have it at this point, Nielsen explained.
A CDC advisory panel must still sign off on the approval, and that could come on Wednesday. Author: WGRZ Staff Updated: 9:00 PM EDT May 11, 2021
ALBANY, N.Y. Following Monday s news that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for young people ages 12 to 15, the state is currently reviewing the data and hopes to begin vaccinations beginning Thursday. As we have with the authorization of each COVID-19 vaccine and subsequent changes, we will use science and data to determine the safest path forward for New Yorkers, said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a released statement. Tomorrow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s vaccine advisory committee, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), will meet publicly to review data and discuss whether to recommend the vaccine for this age group to the CDC director. Following that review, Dr. Howard
Absolute key to getting kids back in schools. Author: Ron Plants Updated: 11:11 PM EDT May 10, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. With the FDA granting emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children 12 to 15 years of age, two health care leaders here in Western New York gave their perspectives to 2 On Your Side.
Dr. Nancy Nielsen, who is an Associate Dean at the Jacobs School of Medicine and a lead planner for vaccine distribution, puts it this way, For middle school and high school kids this is a godsend.
That comment as local governments and pharmacies gear up to go down in age for the Pfizer shots.
Leah Morales, an operations manager in New York City, is one of those people. She had just found out she was pregnant when the pandemic took a terrible toll on her company, by whom she was previously insured. “We were told they could no longer insure us, and had to cut all full-time employees’ salaries and hours more than half,” she says. “So here I was, newly pregnant and uninsured.” (And having just taken a pay-cut.)
Morales spent a month without insurance, eventually applying for Medicaid via New York State. What she didn’t realize, however, was that there are limited options in terms of clinics, hospitals and doctors who accept Medicaid.
Counties shift focus from mass vaccination sites to smaller clinics
Mass vaccination clinics, where counties could vaccinate thousands of individuals, may soon be a thing of the past.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â Mass vaccination clinics, where counties could vaccinate thousands of individuals, may soon be a thing of the past. They re feasible, but whether they re sustainable is really the issue. They re not full, so it may be that those kinds of mass vaccination sites are really not the way to reach people. I think the mass vaccination sites are frankly not long for this world, Dr. Nancy Nielsen, the lead for the WNY Vaccination Planning Team, said.