Clinics across U.S. wait to vaccinate farmworkers: ‘Our hands are tied’
3 years, 9 months ago

Clinics across U.S. wait to vaccinate farmworkers: ‘Our hands are tied’

LA Times  

Farmworkers harvest beans in Homestead, Fla. With Georgia’s sweet onion harvest approaching and COVID-19 vaccine arriving in increasing quantities from the federal government, migrant health centers around the state want to start vaccinating farmworkers. “Our hands are tied,” said East Georgia Healthcare Center CEO Jennie Wren Denmark, whose agency runs 13 clinics, including one in Vidalia, home of the celebrated Vidalia onion. “Making sure we have the people available to plant and harvest will make sure our grocery stores aren’t empty or our food prices don’t rise.” Cuevas, a member of the farmworker advocacy group UFW Foundation, agreed: “We are in the fields getting the work done to feed all the families.” Last week, more than 60 health centers that serve agricultural workers in 21 states began receiving COVID-19 vaccine directly from the federal government in a program created by the Biden administration. “The challenge for farmworkers is many don’t have these documents,” said Alexis Guild, director of health policy for Farmworker Justice, an advocacy group.

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One year of vaccines: Many lives saved, many needlessly lost
3 years ago

One year of vaccines: Many lives saved, many needlessly lost

LA Times  

Boxes of COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., on Dec. 13, 2020. Despite all that, Dowdy said, “we’re going to look back and say the vaccines were a huge success story.” On the very day that an eager nation began rolling up its sleeves, Dec. 14, 2020, the …

What’s the status of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the US?
3 years ago

What’s the status of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the US?

Associated Press  

What’s the status of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the U.S.? To control the spread of COVID-19, President Joe Biden previously said businesses with 100 or more employees would need to require COVID-19 vaccination or have workers get tested weekly for the virus. But soon after the rule was issued by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, it faced …

Vaccines making Thanksgiving easier, but hot spots remain
3 years, 1 month ago

Vaccines making Thanksgiving easier, but hot spots remain

Associated Press  

The U.S. is facing its second Thanksgiving of the pandemic in better shape than the first time around, thanks to the vaccine, though some regions are seeing surges of COVID-19 cases that could get worse as families travel the country for gatherings that were impossible a year ago. “We’ve had several people in their 40s die in the last month …

Cases surge in new COVID hot spots of Michigan, Minnesota
3 years, 1 month ago

Cases surge in new COVID hot spots of Michigan, Minnesota

Associated Press  

Hospitals in Michigan and Minnesota on Tuesday reported a wave of COVID-19 patients not seen in months as beds were filled with unvaccinated people and health care leaders warned that staff were being worn down by yet another surge. It “should be alarming to all of us,” Bob Riney, chief operating officer at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, said …

States challenge Biden’s vaccine mandate for health workers
3 years, 1 month ago

States challenge Biden’s vaccine mandate for health workers

Associated Press  

— A coalition of 10 states sued the federal government on Wednesday to try to block a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers, marking a new front in the resistance by Republican-led states to the pandemic policies of President Joe Biden’s administration. The lawsuit filed in a federal court in Missouri contends that the vaccine requirement threatens the jobs …

No jab, no job? Thousands of American workers could get pink slip
3 years, 2 months ago

No jab, no job? Thousands of American workers could get pink slip

Al Jazeera  

The unvaccinated in the United States face potential job loss as inoculation mandates sweep the land. Thousands of unvaccinated workers across the United States are facing potential job losses as a growing number of states, cities and private companies start to enforce mandates for inoculation against COVID-19. Some 77 percent of eligible Americans have received at least one shot of …

WA's health sector vaccine mandate puts pressure on overstretched bush hospitals
3 years, 2 months ago

WA's health sector vaccine mandate puts pressure on overstretched bush hospitals

ABC  

Almost two weeks after Western Australia's health sector vaccine mandate took effect, just a small number of staff losses is increasing pressure on struggling hospital wards and fanning tension between burnt-out workers. Key points: WACHS confirms frontline staff have been removed from rosters for refusing a COVID vaccine Kimberley hospitals are already facing a shortage of health workers The nurses …

Covid-19 vaccine health care worker holdouts: For them, it’s personal. For their hospitals it’s professional
3 years, 2 months ago

Covid-19 vaccine health care worker holdouts: For them, it’s personal. For their hospitals it’s professional

CNN  

CNN — Being a nurse means everything to Andrea Babinski, but she is willing to risk it all – the connections to colleagues she likes, the patients she cares for, not to mention the steady paycheck – for a simple belief. “We’re in every facet of health care so the influence of nurses and helping people to decide to receive …

Early data shows about half of CT state workers vaccinated
3 years, 2 months ago

Early data shows about half of CT state workers vaccinated

Associated Press  

Early data shows about 19,000 of Connecticut’s roughly 32,000 state employees who work for executive branch agencies are fully vaccinated, a figure that’s expected to change over the coming days, state officials announced Wednesday. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, said they’re also optimistic more people will decide to get vaccinated in the coming days as state officials continue to sort through …

State workers seek exemptions to Washington vaccine mandate
3 years, 3 months ago

State workers seek exemptions to Washington vaccine mandate

Associated Press  

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Nearly 4,800 state workers are seeking an exemption to Washington Gov. The Seattle Times reported Tuesday that the requests for a medical or religious opt-out from the vaccine requirement has come from workers at 24 different state agencies. In August, the governor ordered state workers, school workers and some health-care employees to be vaccinated, without a regular …

COVID-19 Delta surge: Are healthcare workers at a breaking point?
3 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 Delta surge: Are healthcare workers at a breaking point?

Al Jazeera  

On Thursday, August 12 at 19:30 GMT: Anger, frustration, fear, shame – those are just some of the emotions frontline workers in the United States are grappling with as their hospitals once again fill up with coronavirus cases. Some of the worst hit areas like Florida and Arkansas are even seeing children’s hospitals fill up with COVID-19 cases. “I don’t …

Nearly 1,500 health systems across the United States mandate Covid-19 vaccination
3 years, 4 months ago

Nearly 1,500 health systems across the United States mandate Covid-19 vaccination

CNN  

KHN — Hospitals coast to coast are demanding their employees get vaccinated against covid as the highly contagious delta variant tears through populations with low vaccination rates. “Your health care decisions are private, they’re protected by the constitution of the state of Montana,” Rep. Jennifer Carlson, a Republican, said in March as she introduced the bill. “Whereas, they were literally …

The Latest: Connecticut: nursing home workers must get shots
3 years, 4 months ago

The Latest: Connecticut: nursing home workers must get shots

Associated Press  

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut has become the latest state to mandate that workers in nursing homes be vaccinated against COVID-19. ___ MORE ON THE PANDEMIC: — Study: Vaccines give COVID-19 survivors big immune boost — Vaccination form for federal workers adds penalties for lies — Some US schools reopen with mix of masks in classrooms — United Airlines will require …

California to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for health workers
3 years, 4 months ago

California to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for health workers

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will require all of its roughly 2.2 million health care workers and long term care workers to be fully vaccinated by Sept. 30 as the nation’s most populous state is losing ground in the battle against new infections of a more dangerous coronavirus variant. Most of the state’s new infections are caused by the delta variant, …

Few WA aged care workers vaccinated as deadline nears, country health rates also low
3 years, 4 months ago

Few WA aged care workers vaccinated as deadline nears, country health rates also low

ABC  

Less than a quarter of Western Australia's residential aged care workforce is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, sparking fears of staff shortages when inoculation becomes mandatory in mid-September. Key points: WA has the lowest vaccination rate among aged care workers Just 22 per cent are fully vaccinated Only about half of frontline workers in the regions are fully vaccinated Late last …

Major medical groups call for employers to mandate Covid-19 vaccines for health care workers
3 years, 4 months ago

Major medical groups call for employers to mandate Covid-19 vaccines for health care workers

CNN  

CNN — As the number of Covid-19 cases surges in the United States, more than 50 health and medical groups – including the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association – issued a joint statement calling for all health care and long-term care employers to mandate employees be …

Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated, analysis suggests
3 years, 6 months ago

Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated, analysis suggests

ABC  

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the US now are in people who weren't vaccinated, according to analysis by the Associated Press. Key points: Analysis of available US government data from May shows that infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for about 0.1 per cent of cases The US CDC has not estimated what percentage of hospitalisations and deaths are in …

Nearly all COVID deaths are in unvaccinated people as CDC says fatalities are 'entirely preventable'
3 years, 6 months ago

Nearly all COVID deaths are in unvaccinated people as CDC says fatalities are 'entirely preventable'

Daily Mail  

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are in now occurring in people who aren't vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been. What's more, only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people, which translates to about 0.8 percent, or five deaths per day on average. CDC Director …

COVID-19 vaccine effort turns into slog as infectious variant spreads
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 vaccine effort turns into slog as infectious variant spreads

LA Times  

One man holds the door for another as they arrive at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic May 12 at the Auburn Mall in Auburn, Maine. “The last half, the last mile, the last quarter-mile always requires more effort,” Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday. The delta variant has increased from 2.7% of …

Mexico’s health workers slam president for withholding vaccine
3 years, 8 months ago

Mexico’s health workers slam president for withholding vaccine

Al Jazeera  

A staggering 233,152 Mexican health workers have caught COVID-19, and 3,699 have died from it, according to government data, giving Mexico the highest death count for health workers in the world. World Health Organization guidelines say in a recent report that protecting health workers “protects the availability of a critical essential service.” It’s also, the WHO says, about paying it …

Covid-19 Vaccine Shots in Offices; Centre Asks States/UTs to Begin Preparation
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 Vaccine Shots in Offices; Centre Asks States/UTs to Begin Preparation

News 18  

Vaccination at both public and private workplaces for people aged 45 years and above may be launched from April 11, the government said on Wednesday. Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan in a letter to Chief Secretary said a substantial proportion of population aged 45 years and above are in the organized sector of the economy and is involved in formal occupation …

COVID jabs bring relief for vulnerable California farmworkers
3 years, 9 months ago

COVID jabs bring relief for vulnerable California farmworkers

Al Jazeera  

US state made COVID-19 vaccines available to agricultural workers, who face heightened risks of contracting the virus. “It’s not just Californians who benefit, it’s the folks all across this country and around the world.” Widespread infections When COVID-19 spread to North America, agricultural workers were one of the hardest-hit groups. Florida’s agricultural minister has criticised Governor Ron DeSantis for not …

Clinics wait to vaccinate farmworkers: ‘Our hands are tied’
3 years, 9 months ago

Clinics wait to vaccinate farmworkers: ‘Our hands are tied’

Associated Press  

With Georgia’s sweet onion harvest approaching and COVID-19 vaccine arriving in increasing quantities from the federal government, migrant health centers around the state want to start vaccinating farmworkers. “Our hands are tied,” said East Georgia Healthcare Center CEO Jennie Wren Denmark, whose agency runs 13 clinics, including one in Vidalia, home of the celebrated Vidalia onion. “Making sure we have …

Farmworkers get COVID-19 vaccines in Ventura County; teachers are next
3 years, 10 months ago

Farmworkers get COVID-19 vaccines in Ventura County; teachers are next

LA Times  

COVID-19 testing is available to farmworkers close to where they work near a hoop greenhouse in Oxnard. Ventura County is now vaccinating farmworkers as part of a pilot program geared toward the region’s large agricultural sector. More than 100 farmworkers at Good Farms in Oxnard received a shot Friday as part of the pilot program aided by Ventura County’s Farmworker …

Vaccine Delays Leave Grocery Workers Feeling Expendable
3 years, 10 months ago

Vaccine Delays Leave Grocery Workers Feeling Expendable

News 18  

As panicked Americans cleared supermarkets of toilet paper and food last spring, grocery employees gained recognition as among the most indispensable of the pandemic’s front-line workers. Texas is among several states that have decided to leave grocery and other essential workers out of the second phase of its vaccination effort, instead prioritizing adults over 65 and people with chronic medical …

Workers at veterans home balking at COVID vaccinations
3 years, 10 months ago

Workers at veterans home balking at COVID vaccinations

Associated Press  

— Despite the disproportionate number of deaths related to COVID-19 in long-term care facilities in Delaware, many workers at the state veterans home are refusing to get the vaccine. Residents of long-term care facilities such as the Delaware Veterans Home in Milford account for less than 3% of COVID-19 cases in the state but more than half of coronavirus-related deaths. …

Health workers, stuck in the snow, administer coronavirus vaccine to stranded drivers
3 years, 10 months ago

Health workers, stuck in the snow, administer coronavirus vaccine to stranded drivers

CNN  

CNN — Unlike many who have to drive miles to get a Covid-19 vaccine, some travelers in southwestern Oregon had the vaccine come to them Tuesday under treacherous weather conditions. Josephine County Public Health workers were returning from a mass vaccination clinic at Illinois Valley High School in Cave Junction when about 20 members of the group got stranded in …

How the new COVID-19 vaccine rules could help the pandemic end sooner
3 years, 11 months ago

How the new COVID-19 vaccine rules could help the pandemic end sooner

LA Times  

Nurse Cherry Costales prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at St. John’s Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles. It’s safe to do that because the federal government has delivered 31 million doses of vaccine “essentially without a hitch,” Health Secretary Alex Azar said this week. That’s what the science says, and ignoring that would be reckless.” Politics Biden …

COVID-19 Supply Deal Lets Vaccine Maker Earmark Doses For Employees And Their Families
3 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 Supply Deal Lets Vaccine Maker Earmark Doses For Employees And Their Families

NPR  

COVID-19 Supply Deal Lets Vaccine Maker Earmark Doses For Employees And Their Families Enlarge this image toggle caption Ethan Miller/Getty Images Ethan Miller/Getty Images As the nation grapples with a slower-than-promised coronavirus vaccine rollout, one federal deal to increase factory capacity includes an unusual condition: the manufacturer would be allowed to earmark doses to vaccinate employees and their families, giving …

US Coronavirus: More than 90,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 in next three weeks, CDC forecast shows
3 years, 11 months ago

US Coronavirus: More than 90,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 in next three weeks, CDC forecast shows

CNN  

CNN — More than 38,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 in the first two weeks of the new year. “Some reduction in life expectancy may persist beyond 2020 because of continued Covid-19 mortality and long-term health, social, and economic impacts of the pandemic,” Theresa Andrasfay of the University of Southern California and Noreen Goldman of Princeton University’s Office of Population …

Covid-19 vaccine is a source of hope for health care workers. But it comes too late for hundreds of them
4 years ago

Covid-19 vaccine is a source of hope for health care workers. But it comes too late for hundreds of them

CNN  

CNN — Weeks after Dr. Carlos Araujo Preza was treated for Covid-19 in the same Houston-area hospital where he cared for patients during the pandemic, a coworker remembered him as she received the new vaccine that could have saved his life. Courtesy Andrea Araujo A ‘bittersweet’ moment Hundreds of people across the country, mostly front line health care workers, received …

Who gets Covid-19 vaccine next? Older adults and ‘frontline essential workers,’ CDC advisers recommend
4 years ago

Who gets Covid-19 vaccine next? Older adults and ‘frontline essential workers,’ CDC advisers recommend

CNN  

CNN — Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 13-1 on Sunday to recommend that both older adults, ages 75 and older, and “frontline essential workers” including first responders be next in line to receive Covid-19 vaccines. That committee vote also included prioritizing adults ages 65 to 75, people ages 16 to 64 with high-risk …

CDC’s vaccine advisers meet to plan next step of Covid-19 vaccine distribution
4 years ago

CDC’s vaccine advisers meet to plan next step of Covid-19 vaccine distribution

CNN  

CNN — Dr. José Romero says he’s received a few letters. “We are dealing with these decisions knowing there is not enough vaccine,” said Romero, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist who is also secretary of health for the state of Arkansas. “Childcare staff in out-of-school educational and recreational settings such as camps and community centers are critical for continued support …

COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic US effort
4 years ago

COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic US effort

Associated Press  

PORTAGE, Michigan — The first of many freezer-packed COVID-19 vaccine vials made their way to distribution sites across the United States on Sunday, as the nation’s pandemic deaths approached the horrifying new milestone of 300,000. The vaccines were then taken from Pfizer’s Portage, Michigan, facility to Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, where the first cargo plane took …

The US hit a record 7-day average of new Covid-19 cases. And the impacts of Thanksgiving will only make things worse, experts warn
4 years ago

The US hit a record 7-day average of new Covid-19 cases. And the impacts of Thanksgiving will only make things worse, experts warn

CNN  

CNN — Hospitals across the United States are being put under immense pressure as the nation continues to hit record levels of new Covid-19 cases, adding more than 1 million new cases in the first five days of December. “We’re seeing day-by-day increasing numbers of patients with Covid-19, both those who are a little bit sick and those who are …

First shipments of Covid-19 vaccine will fall short
4 years ago

First shipments of Covid-19 vaccine will fall short

CNN  

CNN — State health departments and governors’ offices across the country are finally being told by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Operation Warp Speed how many doses of the coronavirus vaccine they will initially be receiving once the vaccine is authorized, and it’s not enough. A CNN analysis of 27 states’ vaccine data showed that none …

States submit vaccine orders as coronavirus death toll grows
4 years ago

States submit vaccine orders as coronavirus death toll grows

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — States faced a deadline on Friday to place orders for the coronavirus vaccine as many reported record infections, hospitalizations and deaths, while hospitals were pushed to the breaking point — with the worst feared yet to come. The state expects to get enough doses of new coronavirus vaccines by the end of the year to inoculate more …

States plan for vaccines as daily US virus deaths top 3,100
4 years ago

States plan for vaccines as daily US virus deaths top 3,100

Associated Press  

States drafted plans Thursday for who will go to the front of the line when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available later this month, as U.S. deaths from the outbreak eclipsed 3,100 in a single day, obliterating the record set last spring. States face a Friday deadline to submit requests for doses of the Pfizer vaccine and specify …

US plans for rapid vaccine rollout as Covid-19 surges to new heights
4 years ago

US plans for rapid vaccine rollout as Covid-19 surges to new heights

Live Mint  

WASHINGTON: US officials on Tuesday unveiled plans to begin vaccinating millions of Americans against COVID-19 as early as mid-December, as coronavirus infections and hospitalizations in the United States soared once more to unprecedented heights. With outgoing President Donald Trump's coronavirus strategy relying heavily on a vaccine, the chief adviser of his administration's Operation Warp Speed program said on Tuesday that …

Who will get the first COVID vaccines? California and other states race to decide
4 years, 1 month ago

Who will get the first COVID vaccines? California and other states race to decide

LA Times  

California and other states are finalizing plans to get the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines to front-line healthcare workers, such as these at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Willowbrook. “If we don’t have a fair allocation of vaccines, that could undermine the whole campaign in a way that would do lasting damage.” State health officials voice cautious optimism …

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