This week, the health care services obtained about 2,100 first doses of vaccine. About 100 Moderna vaccine doses had been distributed to RiverStone Health, whereas each Billings Clinic and St. Vincent Healthcare obtained a minimum of 975 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses every. But the demand for the COVID-19 vaccines continues to outpace provide, mentioned John Felton, Yellowstone County Public Health Officer …

Federal guidelines suggest that people who smoke underneath the age of 65, thought-about high-risk for extreme COVID-19 signs, be eligible for the vaccine in early phases of distribution, irritating essential employees lower in the priority line. New Jersey and Mississippi are at the moment providing the vaccine to people who smoke underneath the age of 65, and several other different …

New details about how COVID-19 behaves is consistently rising, so we’re studying extra about how the virus spreads daily. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it’s primarily transmitted by respiratory droplets from person to person in shut proximity by way of speaking, coughing, or sneezing. Knowing if you end up contagious can vastly cut back the danger …

The COVID-19 vaccine from pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and BioNTech appears to be efficient towards 16 completely different mutations of the coronavirus, in keeping with a examine that has not but undergone peer review.   As Reuters reported, the examine, by researchers at Pfizer and the University of Texas Medical Branch, suggests the vaccine won’t should be tweaked to be able to …

In an effort to velocity up vaccinations throughout the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced this week that dentists are actually cleared to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. The emergency waiver permitted Monday permits the state’s 36,000 dentists to assist give the photographs, KTLA sister station KRON experiences. “I think this is something that should’ve been done a long time ago. We …

People 65 and older can now schedule an appointment to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Miami-Dade County by means of Jackson Health System’s new web site. But you’ll have to wait a whereas. Miami-Dade County’s public hospital community stated it confirmed greater than 12,000 appointments in lower than two hours after the portal went reside sooner than marketed Tuesday — …

A extra infectious pressure of the coronavirus first detected in the United Kingdom has formally made its option to the United States. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis introduced Tuesday on Twitter that state health officers discovered a case of COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 in a male affected person in his twenties. The affected person had no journey historical past, based on an …

Nearly as quickly because the COVID-19 vaccine was made out there in California, accounts started rising of individuals skipping the precedence line forward of front-line workers and long-term care residents. Most just lately, a 33-year-old Disney employee revealed on Facebook that she acquired the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine by means of a relative with connections to Redlands Community Hospital. Even although state officers …

December has been the nation’s deadliest month for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic’s start, with greater than 63,000 Americans misplaced to the virus in the previous 26 days.In comparability, November noticed 36,964 deaths.The grim death toll comes on the heels of a number of brutal months for the U.S., with COVID-19 ravaging communities from coast to coast, crippling hospital techniques …

Since I’m a training doctor at NYU Langone Health, as we speak was my flip to get the Pfizer vaccine in opposition to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In addition to seeing sufferers in my workplace, I carry out procedures as a gastroenterologist that may probably expose me to aerosolized virus. This was me final April on the COVID …