vaccine

Biden announces vaccine mandate for nursing household staff members

Dannette Saltzgaber August 19, 2021

President Biden declared Wednesday that workers customers at nursing homes would now be necessary to be totally vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19 or individuals services would danger getting rid of their Medicare and Medicaid funding.

“I’m utilizing the electricity of the federal government, as a payer of well being treatment prices, to make certain we cut down those hazards to our most susceptible seniors,” Biden stated in a speech shipped at the White Home.

The president has directed the Section of Wellness and Human Services to finalize guidelines that would make federal Medicare and Medicaid payments contingent on the COVID-19

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Overnight Health Care: Public option plan left out of Biden budget proposal | House Republicans demand congressional probe into COVID-19 origin | Half the total US population have received at least one vaccine dose

Dannette Saltzgaber June 27, 2021

Welcome to Friday’s Overnight Health Care. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) is trying a different approach to get his constituents vaccinated, telling them on Thursday to get their shots for his dog. “If you won’t do it for your family, you’ve got to get vaccinated for babydog.”

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Your COVID-19 vaccine questions — answered | News

Dannette Saltzgaber June 24, 2021

The information of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout late very last 12 months was a welcome signal for several that the pandemic’s close could be in sight. Although the first distribution had gone extra slowly and gradually than to begin with hoped, enhanced provides have allowed for health officers to develop eligibility around the earlier couple of months.

Underneath is a record of who can get vaccinated in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, in addition solutions to common issues and one-way links to assets. We will update and incorporate to this web page as additional facts gets to be out

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ACIP readies Friday meeting on vaccine safety, boosters

Dannette Saltzgaber June 24, 2021

With Katherine Ellen Foley, Emily Martin, Ben Leonard, Alice Miranda Ollstein and Caitlin Oprysko.

— Advisers to federal regulators will discuss the safety of Covid-19 vaccines at two meetings this week.

— A bipartisan pair of lawmakers wants to make it easier for those who experience rare but serious side effects from Covid shots to receive compensation.

— A federal judge in Delaware gave drugmakers a small but potentially significant victory in their tussle with hospitals over the 340B drug discount program.

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Sutter Health obtaining extra vaccine doses from condition, but nevertheless slipping limited

Dannette Saltzgaber June 24, 2021

Commitments from the condition of California and its new coronavirus vaccine administrator, Blue Shield, will allow Sutter Wellbeing to fill most of the second-dose appointments it was compelled to vacate recently, however Sutter remains involved about possessing to push some next doses further than the 42-working day window advised by the U.S. Centers for Illness Manage and Prevention.

Sonoma County officials be concerned they, much too, will be compelled to postpone some second-dose appointments at county-affiliated clinics operate by unbiased internet site supervisors, citing stagnant allotments from the point out. The county-supported clinics canceled all very first doses previous 7

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Sutter Overall health cancels next doses of coronavirus vaccine at Santa Rosa clinic

Dannette Saltzgaber June 24, 2021

Sutter Well being is canceling appointments for next doses of coronavirus vaccine, signaling yet another stage backward in the effort and hard work to immunize Sonoma County from the most lethal human pathogen in a century.

The Sacramento-primarily based health and fitness treatment procedure, which gives treatment for 3 million individuals in Northern California and operates a regional clinic in Santa Rosa, is in hazard of acquiring to wipe out far more than 90,000 vaccination appointments across its procedure by means of March 9, which includes 40,000 second doses, Sutter media relations director Angeline Sheets explained Tuesday.

Sheets was not

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