LAURA MCCULLOUGH is a poet and memoirist whose books include the forthcoming Women & Other Hostages (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), The Wild Night Dress, selected by Billy Collins in the Miller Williams Poetry Contest, University of Arkansas Press, Jersey Mercy (BLP), Rigger Death & Hoist Another (BLP) , Panic (winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award, Alice James Books), andshe has edited two anthologies, A Sense of Regard: essays on poetry and race (Georgia University Press, 2015) and The Room and the World: essays on Stephen Dunn (University of Syracuse Press, 2014). Her poems and prose have appeared in Best American Poetry, Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Writer’s Chronicle, and many other journals and magazines. Visit her at http://www.lauramccullough.org/.
Stuart Keeble, Suffolk s director of public health, pleaded for families to be responsible
- Credit: Archant
The news came after health chiefs from across Suffolk penned an open letter pleading with the community to be responsible over Christmas, with coronavirus infections in the county tripling since October.
The letter, written by executives at Ipswich and Colchester hospitals, West Suffolk Hospital, the county s NHS clinical commissioning groups, GP federation and others, said: Sadly, we no longer have the capacity to lower our guard or lessen our resolve over the festive period.
Nick Hulme, chief executive of Ipswich and Colchester hospitals, signed the open letter
COVID vaccine comes to nursing homes, hurt medically and financially
Jeanne Peters, 95, a rehab patient at The Reservoir, a nursing facility, was given the first COVID-19 vaccination in a Connecticut nursing home Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in West Hartford. Administering the vaccine is Mary Lou Galushko, a CVS pharmacist from North Haven, left. Staff members showered her with confetti after. At rear is Bob Atighechi, a CVS pharmacist from Rocky Hill. (AP Photo/Stephen Dunn)
Genesis HealthCare, the largest publicly traded nursing home company in the United States, invited the press to watch its chief medical officer and others be vaccinated Friday against a novel coronavirus that poses an existential threat to the company.
Over 1,000 high-risk health care workers in Washington get vaccine December 18, 2020 at 4:57 pm
As of late Wednesday night, a total of 1,159 high-risk health care workers in Washington state had received doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccination in Washington kicked off Tuesday morning among the Phase 1A group, which the state identifies as frontline health workers and long-term care residents and staff.
Operation Warp Speed told the Department of Health on Wednesday that the state’s allocation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will be reduced to 44,850, rather than the 74,100 doses the department was expecting to receive. The DOH says it was not given an explanation and it doesn’t have allocation numbers beyond next week.
Stuart Keeble, Suffolk s director of public health, pleaded for families to be responsible
- Credit: Archant
The news came after health chiefs from across Suffolk penned an open letter pleading with the community to be responsible over Christmas, with coronavirus infections in the county tripling since October.
The letter, written by executives at Ipswich and Colchester hospitals, West Suffolk Hospital, the county s NHS clinical commissioning groups, GP federation and others, said: Sadly, we no longer have the capacity to lower our guard or lessen our resolve over the festive period.
Nick Hulme, chief executive of Ipswich and Colchester hospitals, signed the open letter