Τhe number of seniors over the age of 85 that received the jab against the coronavirus climbed Monday past the 6,000 mark, while appointments for vaccination by people of this age group amounted to 126,975.
In normal times, January is the month for counting the cost of Christmas. The credit card bills arrive. New year resolutions are made. The consequences of recent indulgence have to be faced.
NYC Health + Hospitals today administered the first COVID-19 vaccines in its health system. Veronica Delgado, Emergency Department (ED) Lead Physician Assistant, and William Kelly, a Service Aide in the Environmental Services Department both at NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, were among the first hospital workers as part of the City’s public health system to receive the vaccine that’s been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Following appropriate guidance, NYC Health + Hospitals will begin to offer the COVID-19 vaccine to frontline health care workers in each of its 11 hospitals assigned to the Emergency Departments or Intensive Care United (ICUs) who are over the age of 60 and therefore at the highest risk for exposure to the virus. The public health system will expand vaccination to other employees and eventually patients in the next week and months to come.
The names of Dr. Albert Bourla, Dr. George Yancopoulos and Dr. Menelas Pangalos, all pioneers in the desperate campaign against the coronavirus in 2020, will go down in history for their work, carried out in the face of almost unimaginable pressure while the world sustained enormous economic and social damage.
Just 220 of the country’s total 1,220 intensive care beds at public hospitals were free on Friday morning, the Greek Health Ministry reported, saying that the availability rate for both Covid and non-Covid beds was at just 18%.
Deaths from the coronavirus have topped 1,000 in Greece, health authorities announced Saturday.
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