32 Nursing Home Residents Die in COVID-19 Outbreak During Mass Vaccination Drive
January 24, 2021 | Infections
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Thirty-two residents have died in The Commons on St. Anthony, a nursing home in Auburn, Cayuga county, New York during a COVD-19 outbreak that started at the end of December 2020. On Jan. 5, 2021, there were 130 residents, who tested positive for COVD-19 and, as of Jan. 11, there were 104 active coronavirus cases in the nursing home with 47 recoveries and 47 employees in quarantine. Recently, the New York nursing home began administering…
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Los Angeles Students Will Be Required to Get COVID-19 Vaccine After FDA Approval for Use in Children
January 24, 2021 | Medical Trade
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Austin Beutner, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in California said the district would require its students to get a COVID-19 vaccine once it is available for school-aged children. Two experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,, Pfizer/BioNTech’s BNT162b2 and Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccines, have been granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the…
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