Month: July 2021

A Utah pharmacist surrendered his license on Monday, July 12, 2021, after he admitted to fraudulently distributing COVID-19 vaccination cards. (Spenser Heaps, Deseret News) HERRIMAN — A Utah pharmacist surrendered his license in a disciplinary hearing with the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing after he allegedly prepared and distributed COVID-19 vaccination cards without administering the vaccine. A stipulation and surrender order filed with the division on Monday states that Herriman pharmacist Bruce F. Whatcott admitted to meeting with a patient in June whose employer requested them to be vaccinated since their position required travel. Whatcott also admitted that he allowed the pharmacy technician to c...

After San Francisco Bay Area health officials issued new guidance Friday recommending that everyone – even those who are vaccinated – should wear masks indoors, many restaurants are now reportedly requiring them again for their employees.  And at least one employer has decided to lay off any unvaccinated employees just to be safe, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.  "If anyone doesn’t want to get vaccinated, we will let them go," Zareen Khan, owner of Pakistani/Indian restaurant Zareen’s, told the newspaper. "It’s terrible, but we need people to understand this is serious. It’s better to be cautious than to be sorry." She said most of her employees are vaccinated.  Cases have ticked up across the state mostly due to the delta variant. In Los Angeles officials are now mandating ev...

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A Dallas, Texas, resident who recently returned from Nigeria has tested positive for monkeypox, a rare virus similar to smallpox, local officials said Friday. Though this is the first confirmed case of the virus in the U.S. since 2003, officials said the public should not be concerned.  "While rare, this case is not a reason for alarm and we do not expect any threat to the general public," Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a statement from Dallas County's health department. Because passengers were wearing masks on the flight and in the airport, the health department said, "It's believed the risk of spread of monkeypox via respiratory droplets to others on the planes and in the airports is low."  Monkeypox, which is in the same family of viruses as smallpox, is a rare but pot...

A man who was hospitalized with COVID-19 was released Friday after more than 6 months, AL.com reports. Ricky Hamm, 50, was the longest-staying COVID-19 patient at the UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. "When it first started, we just thought we’d be here a couple of weeks and it won’t be that long," his wife Shannon Hamm said of his hospitalization. "But it turned into a long ordeal." Hamm called finally being discharged "surreal" as he walked out of the hospital with the help of a walker. "It’s been a long journey," he told AL.com. "I guess I haven’t really fathomed that it’s coming to an end. But it’s slowly starting to give me butterflies." During his hospital stay, he spent almost five months on life support, according to the report. He was attached to a extracorporeal me...