Month: April 2021

CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — The first hurdle was getting on the bus. Seventy-four year old Linda Busby hesitated outside a community center where older people were loading up to go get the coronavirus vaccine. “I was scared, I’m not afraid to say that,” she said Wednesday after getting her shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after encouragement from a staff member and her brother. “I thought I wasn’t going to get it at first. Nobody likes getting shots.” Busby’s hesitance is just what the Biden administration and its allies in the states are combating, one person at a time, as the White House steps up appeals to seniors to get inoculated. The vaccination rate for this top-priority group is reaching a plateau even as supplies have expanded. About 76% of Americans aged 65 and older hav...

On Friday afternoon, as they have done for generations every spring, baseball fans will head to San Francisco for the Giants home opener. But to enter the ballpark this year, they will need to bring something in addition to their ticket: proof they have been vaccinated or the results of a negative COVID-19 test taken within the past 72 hours. That requirement — imposed by San Francisco public health officials — has Bay Area residents asking: Is this a new trend or an outlier as California continues to reopen? For now, it appears to be a unique case, experts say. But the wider issue is still evolving. President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom have said recently that they will not require a “vaccine passport,” or proof of vaccination, for people to attend gatherings or events. Ther...

For people who are at home, and can't make it out to get a COVID-19 vaccine, the state is working with Presbyterian Hospital on a program to bring the vaccine to you.They've given out 300 vaccines to people at home in Albuquerque and are rolling it out to other parts of New Mexico. "They are expanding to Santa Fe, Valencia and Sandoval counties," said Aging and Long-Term Services Sec. Katrina Hotrum-Lopez. Hotrum-Lopez says they'll continue to expand the program to other parts of New Mexico.More and more New Mexicans are getting their vaccine. Wednesday, the state reported 50% have had at least one shot. More than 30% are fully vaccinated. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For people who are at home, and can't make it out to get a COVID-19 vaccine, the state is worki...

A unique vaccine produced by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research started clinical testing Tuesday, and Army researchers hope it will combat variants of SARS-COV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The vaccine, called spike ferritin nanoparticle, or SpFN, could also help fight other coronaviruses, a group of related RNA viruses that often cause respiratory-related diseases in mammals. Army researchers have been tracking the threat posed by new coronaviruses even before the pandemic, according to Kayvon Modjarrad, director of emerging infectious diseases at Walter Reed. That threat has been accelerating in recent years. “That’s why we need a vaccine like this: one that has potential to protect broadly and proactively against multiple coronavirus species and strains,” ...

THEY HAD ROUGHLY 14,000 SLOTS OPEN FOR PEOPLE TO GET THEIR VACCINES, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE THESE SEATS ARE EMPTY. I THINK WE’LL GET AROUND A THOUSAND PEOPLE THAT SHOW UP AMY LAPSE PRESIDENT. SEAN BOWMAN SAYS, THIS IS THE SLOWEST MASS VACCINATION EVENT. THEY’VE SEEN SO FAR SAYING FOR SOME REASON DEMAND HAS BEEN ON THE DECLINE SINCE LAST WEEK. I KNOW IN THE RURAL PARTS OF T SURPRISING THAT EVENTUALLY IT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE METRO JUST SURPRISING THAT IT WOULD HAPPEN ALREADY AND SAYS HE’S STILL CONCERNED. THERE ARE A THIRD OF OKLAHOMA’S STILL ON THE FENCE ABOUT GETTING THE SHOT IF YOU KEEP PUTTING IT OFF WHAT’S GONNA END UP HAPPENING IS YOU’RE GONNA GET TO A POINT WHERE IT’S GONNA BE HARD TO FIND A PLACE TO GET A VACCINE AND THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SAYS THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT WORKING T...

2,292 new COVID-19 cases, 21 additional deaths reported in Massachusetts Updated: 5:04 PM EDT Apr 7, 2021 The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported an additional 2,292 confirmed COVID-19 cases Wednesday, bringing the statewide total to 611,825 since the start of the pandemic. State health officials also added 21 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths to the state's total, which is now 17,014. So far, a total of 4.91 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been shipped to Massachusetts, of which 83.8% have been administered. So far, 1.57 million people in the state are fully vaccinated.An estimated 35,075 cases are active across Massachusetts, acco...