Month: March 2021

IT’S OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT DALLAS COUNTY WILL BE GIVEN SOME DOSES THIS WEEK DALLAS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. SPOKESPERSON. AND COCHRAN IS EXCITED THAT THE NEW JOHNSON AND JOHNSON COVID-19 VACCINE IS ON THE WAY THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH JUST ANNOUNCED IT WILL RECEIVE 25,600 DOSES AND ALL OF THOSE DOSES WILL GO TO 17 COUNTIES INCLUDING CLARKE DALLAS MARION MARSHALL TAMA AND WRIGHT THE COUNTIES HAS SIGNIFICANT PHASE 1B TIER TWO POPULATIONS. WHO ARE FRONTLINE ESSENTIAL WORKERS IN FOOD AGRICULTURE DISTRIBUTION AND MANUFACTURING SECTORS AND WHO LIVE OR WORK IN SETTINGS THAT MAKE SOCIAL DISTANCING UNFEASIBLE HEALTH LEADERS SAY THIS WILL ENSURE THAT LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH CAN COORDINATE WITH EMPLOYERS ON THE QUICK ADMINISTRATION OF COVID-19 VACCINE TO ESSENTIAL WORKERS WHO HAV...

IT’S OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT DALLAS COUNTY WILL BE GIVEN SOME DOSES THIS WEEK DALLAS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. SPOKESPERSON. AND COCHRAN IS EXCITED THAT THE NEW JOHNSON AND JOHNSON COVID-19 VACCINE IS ON THE WAY THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH JUST ANNOUNCED IT WILL RECEIVE 25,600 DOSES AND ALL OF THOSE DOSES WILL GO TO 17 COUNTIES INCLUDING CLARKE DALLAS MARION MARSHALL TAMA AND WRIGHT THE COUNTIES HAS SIGNIFICANT PHASE 1B TIER TWO POPULATIONS. WHO ARE FRONTLINE ESSENTIAL WORKERS IN FOOD AGRICULTURE DISTRIBUTION AND MANUFACTURING SECTORS AND WHO LIVE OR WORK IN SETTINGS THAT MAKE SOCIAL DISTANCING UNFEASIBLE HEALTH LEADERS SAY THIS WILL ENSURE THAT LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH CAN COORDINATE WITH EMPLOYERS ON THE QUICK ADMINISTRATION OF COVID-19 VACCINE TO ESSENTIAL WORKERS WHO HAV...

PARIS (AP) — In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how. But that knowledge belongs to the large pharmaceutical companies who have produced the first three vaccines authorized by countries including Britain, the European Union and the U.S. — Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. The factories are all still awaiting responses. Across Africa and Southeas...

J&J board member Dr. Mark McClellan shares insight on the impact of the newly approved coronavirus vaccine. Despite an increase in COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned during a Monday press briefing that she remains "deeply concerned about a potential shift in the trajectory of the pandemic." Walensky, citing the latest data from the agency, said that the recent declines in COVID-19 cases have leveled off at roughly 70,000 cases per day. "You know, the goal is not to sort of open up travel, open up all of, you know, things because people — you know, we’re scaling up vaccination. The goal in those first 100 days has always been to sort of make sure that we are in a place to be out of this pan...