“Say, ‘I can’t be one of those people who would be a stepping stone to someone else for the virus. I’m going to be the eternity of the virus.’ Zuckerberg Monday.
Thanksgiving is upon us, which means the holiday season is in full swing. It’s a perfect setup for people who have no symptoms of “innocent and inadvertent” transmission of the infection to their loved ones.
With that in mind, officials are preparing for the first wave of vaccine distribution.
Once the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention. Recommendations are made by the centers as to which groups will be given the vaccine first, they will be ready to be sent out, said Dr. S.S. Said on Monday. And on the same day or the next day, the first vaccination can be done, he said.
U.S. Still fighting a rebound
Even after the vaccine began to be distributed in December, the general public will not be vaccinated until April or May 2021, Foi said. Until then, the U.S. Still arguing with an unprecedented spike.
In Minnesota, more than a third of the counties are more than 10 times what would be considered a high risk threshold for infection rate growth, as the state “has been at its worst since March,” Health Commissioner John Malcolm said Monday.
“While this large increase in the number of Minnesota patients who need to be admitted to the hospital has some really serious implications for the availability of hospital care for other serious issues,” said Malik. “And the number of people getting into Covid is much higher than we saw in May.”
To manage the risk of reopening, New Mexico government Michelle Lugan Grisham announced a new “red to green” system that tires counties at the risk of their spread. The data will be updated bilaterally, and if a county fails to complete the metrics, it will begin functioning at the most restrictive level within 48 hours.
Nationally, Monday marked the 28th day in a row that the U.S. recorded more than 100,000 new cases – a number higher than the spring and summer figures, both below 60,000.
Hospitals under stress
As cases escalate during the holiday season, so does hospitalization – straining health care systems.
Gavin News of California told reporters Monday that the intensive care unit bed capacity in the state could reach 112% the day before Christmas, if the trend of increasing cases of coronavirus continues.
In Rhode Island, officials are preparing to use the area’s hospitals after their systems were already in capacity.
In New York, where some hospitals taxed room capacity in March, government Andrew Cuomo said this time medical systems need to take steps to move patients to other facilities that have space.
“No patient wants to be in a crowded hospital because you’re getting less care, the staff is thinner, it’s in the best interest of the patient, sharing the patient’s load on the system,” Cuomo said Monday. “We will not live from the nightmares of overcrowded hospitals.”
Healthcare systems may be more tight at this point, as researchers are now looking at people infected with the virus even after symptoms show up, Fauci said.
Some, called “long hulers,” experience symptoms that last for months. Others see remnants and perhaps indeterminate organ system dislocations, he said.
“The idea that you get infected, you don’t see any symptoms or you will die, and if you don’t die, you’re fine – I think that’s really a misconception,” he added.
Challenges of vaccination for small communities
Experts say already-stressed health care systems face another challenge of delivering vaccines to rural communities.
Pfizer plans to keep its vaccine in ultracold storage and send it to thermal shippers that can hold at least 975 and 5,000 doses.
Lan Lan Morgan, chief executive officer of the National Rural Health Association, told CNN on Monday that it is a small town, not efficient from a rural perspective. “It’s not right now.”
That dose must be shared across multiple providers in those communities, and without compromising the temperature they store, Hannah said.
Morgan and Henna said immunization managers in those areas would have to find solutions, such as taking doses from a central location or sending them out in dry ice containers.
If they do not, they risk losing out, Morgan said.
“Such an approach really establishes these rural communities in the U.S. for the unacceptable mortality rate and the potential for the collapse of the health care system.”
Pfizer does not have immediate response questions about concerns about the size of the shipment.
CNN’s Lauren Mascarenhas, King Rajak, Steve Almasi, Holly Yan, Sara Murray, John Bonifield, Shelby Lynn Erdman and Jennifer Selva contributed to the report.
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