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SAN DIMAS, Calif., May 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ COVID-19 healthcare startup
Curative recently reached 20 million COVID-19 PCR results released across the United States. Since offering COVID-19 services in the spring of 2020, with an EUA in April 2020, Curative currently administers 5% of all COVID-19 testing across the country. Through providing COVID-19 testing and vaccination services, Curative s mission is to build a healthier tomorrow by helping end the pandemic and provide essential health services.
Curative Mobile Testing Van out in a community to provide COVID-19 testing.
Curative began in January 2020, led by CEO and co-founder Fred Turner, with the aim of improving outcomes for sepsis patients, but quickly pivoted to COVID-19 testing in March 2020 as a response to the pandemic, as Curative received an EUA for its PCR test from the FDA. Curative sought to offer a scalable solution to testing for COVID-19, with healthcare workers observing patient sel
Practice brings comfort before real vaccine shot
Clinic helps special needs people, those with needle fears The Columbian
Share: Daniel Arana, 20, blows soap bubbles in the post-shot waiting area with his mother Yolanda following his mock vaccination April 11 at Friendship Foundation in Redondo Beach, Calif. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
LOS ANGELES Margie Garcia, the mother of an 18-year-old with autism, desperately wants her son to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
But she fears that the sight of the syringe could trigger his anxiety, causing him to run away or tackle someone.
So last week, her son, Niko, made a practice run at a mock clinic along with dozens of other young adults and children with developmental disabilities. He went through a registration process, then a nurse placed a syringe needle-less against his arm and stamped the spot with a bandage. Afterward, he sat in an observation area, wearing red headphones to block out any unexpected
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Margie Garcia, the mother of an 18-year-old with autism, desperately wants her son to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
But she fears that the sight of the syringe could trigger his anxiety, causing him to run away or tackle someone.
So last week, her son, Niko, made a practice run at a mock clinic along with dozens of other young adults and children with developmental disabilities. He went through a registration process, then a nurse placed a syringe needle-less against his arm and stamped the spot with a bandage. Afterward, he sat in an observation area, wearing red headphones to block out any unexpected noise. All around him in the parking lot floated bubbles and balloons.
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Cars line up at a mass vaccine event held by the Williamson County vaccination hub, Family Hospital Systems, at Kelly Reeves Stadium on March 4.
Williamson County expects its mass vaccination sites will be closed by May.
County commissioners voted Tuesday to end its contract Family Hospital Systems on May 12, and with the provider Curative Inc. on May 21. The health care companies had been handling the mass vaccination sites at the Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex, the Dell Diamond and the Georgetown Independent School District Athletic Complex.
Commissioners noted the county s vaccine waitlist has been
shrinking and the supply of vaccines is greater than the demand. The county
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