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Dec 22, 2020 07:50 PM EST
After States and counties have been left to handle their share of the first batch of vaccines, distribution became chaotic.
In a rural hospital in Arkansas, the 975 doses per tray of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine contains way too many, but splitting trays into smaller shipments has risks. That is an example of the logistical issues in safely getting the Pfizer vaccine to rural health care workers. Another is once the vaccine is out of the freezer at 94 degrees below zero, the vaccine can only last five days and, thus, must be refrigerated in transit.
According to Dr. Jennifer Dillaha, Arkansas epidemiologist, since over 40 percent of Arkansas territories are rural and Covid-19 infections are climbing, resolving this delivery dilemma is serious.
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Dec 22, 2020 10:26 AM EST
In a remote town of Ingenta, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a patient with a still hidden identity, has Ebola-like symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, lays on her bed, with squabbling two toddlers frantic to run away from the prison-like hospital room waiting for the results of an Ebola test.
The patient only communicates through a clear plastic observation window. Her identity is undisclosed to keep her from being detested by citizens fearful of Ebola infection. Her children have also been tested, but so far, they are not showing any symptoms.
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Dec 22, 2020 10:50 AM EST
A New York family is eagerly hoping and praying for the safe coming back of Lynette Hernandez as Christmas is fast approaching. She has been missing since October.
Lourdes Pinzón, the mother of the missing New Yorker, said, I just want to find my daughter. I need her. And her daughter needs her mother. Every day she asks questions. And I don t have answers.
Lourdes, who lives in Nassau County, New York, last saw her daughter on September 19, 2020. Lynette and Bella, her 6-year-old daughter, lived with Lourdes, but Lynette moved to Brooklyn to live with her boyfriend.