MISSOURI - The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet Wednesday to advise the CDC director on recommending use of the Pfizer vaccine for children between the ages of 12 and 15.Â
Some mid-Missouri health departments and centers are preparing clinics to serve this new eligible community, but other said they don t and won t have the supplies to distribute the Pfizer vaccine to this age group.Â
KOMU 8 News reached out to eight mid-Missouri county health departments to see if the vaccine will be available to this age group. Hospitals and independent vaccine distribution clinics are not included in this county analysis. Below are the health department and centers responses:Â
Citing the high stakes and substantial public interest in the lawsuit, a federal court allowed the city of Aurora to receive certain personal and medical information about Elijah McClain, the 23-year-old man whose family is suing over his August 2019 death.
But in his ruling this month, U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter rejected the city s request to access state records that would have indicated McClain s use of any prescription opioids, as well as the family s social services records. At present, this request is little more than a fishing expedition, Neureiter wrote in a May 4 order, referring to the opioid and social services evidence.
The $34.1 billion Colorado state budget or “Long Bill” for FY 2021-2022 currently awaits a signature from Gov. Jared Polis after passing both chambers of the Legislature last week. As Colorado waits to see if Polis will make changes or sign the bill in its current state, here is a breakdown of the budget’s funding for key health services in the state.
The proposed HCPF funding comes to a total of
$13.2 billion, the majority of which goes to paying premiums for medical services for Medicaid recipients. Of this $13.2 billion, $2.6 billion will come from the state’s general fund.
Medical Services Premiums: $9,988,606,597
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Alabama
Montgomery: Vaccines for COVID-19 are now widely available, but some people remain hesitant to take the shots, State Health Officer Scott Harris said Friday. After months of struggling with getting an adequate supply into the state, Harris said health officials are now trying to battle some people’s reluctance to sign up for doses. While people can be reluctant to take the vaccine for a variety of reasons, one is the false belief that the vaccine is more dangerous than the coronavirus, he said. “If you can identify one single issue that is a problem, it’s that there are people who are just convinced that the vaccine is somehow more dangerous than the disease,” Harris told reporters. “That’s a false belief we have to try to combat as often as we can. It’s simply not true.” Nearly one-third of Alabama’s population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. However, that figure ranks the state third from last
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