BROWNSVILLE, Texas (KVEO) The City of Brownsville will be hosting a COVID-19 vaccination drive-thru clinic Wednesday.
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine will be available by the State of Texas to individuals 18 years of age and older.
The clinic will be held Wednesday, June 9 at Morningside Park from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Morningside Park is located at 1207 South Central Avenue.
Residents in need of a first or second-dose vaccine may register for the event online at www.btxcares.com or by calling the City of Brownsville COVID-19 Hotline at (956) 394-0012.
Individuals in need of a second dose vaccine must present a COVID-19 Vaccine Record Card given at their first dose vaccination.
The city strongly encourages the public to download and complete the consent and IMMTrac forms online at www.btxcares.com ahead of time to speed the vaccination process.
The vaccination clinic is partnered with the State of Texas and UTRGV Pre Physician Assistant Society.
CDC guidelines to protect against COVID-19 are encouraged.
The White House has a handy roundup of vaccine incentives.
In a push to get at least 70% of all adults in the US vaccinatedby July Fourth, President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a National Month of Action. As part of the push, the White House has rounded up many of the incentives for people to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Some of those incentives include free beer from Anheuser-Busch on July Fourth; winning cruises, Super Bowl tickets and cash from CVS; $2 million in gift cards from Door Dash; on-site vaccines and free tickets for MLB games; thousands of Xboxes from Microsoft; $1 million per week to someone through Kroger; and winning a year of free flights from United Airlines.
Read more: Free beer, doughnuts and $1 million: Incentives to get your COVID-19 vaccine
Other incentives and pushes to get people the vaccine include:
Vice President Kamala Harris will also embark on a national tour encouraging people to get vaccinated. The tour will be "anchored in the south."
Around 41.5% of the entire US population is currently fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to numbers from John Hopkins University. This means 136 million people have received either both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson shot.
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Healthcare workers wait to assist residents for their mandatory coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swab tests after some residents were tested positive for the virus, at a public housing estate in Singapore May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Singapore has reported its 34th death due to COVID-19, taking its toll from the pandemic beyond the 33 casualties recorded during the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak.
The city-state was one of the worst-hit countries by SARS outside mainland China, based on numbers of infection and death, according to the World Health Organization's data.
SARS, a previously unknown infectious disease, is believed to have emerged from the wet markets of China's Guangdong province before spreading into major cities. Globally, as many as 774 people died in the epidemic that reached nearly 30 countries.
While the current pandemic death toll has exceeded Singapore's death toll from the SARS outbreak, the city-state still has one of the world's lowest COVID-19 fatality rates.
Singapore authorities had said at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that the experience dealing with SARS meant they were more prepared for the COVID-19 outbreak.
So far, Singapore has reported 62,219 COVID-19 infections since January last year, while it recorded 238 SARS cases between March and May 2003.
The 34th COVID-19 death in Singapore was an 86-year-old woman who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and had a history of comorbidities including diabetes and hypertension, Singapore's health ministry said.
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) Even as case numbers plummet, vaccinations increase and the world reopens, the coronavirus is not gone. Thats why doctors continue to push prevention measures and increased testing.
Dr. Sampson Davis is an emergency room physician who is on a mission to open COVID-19 testing centers nationwide, including in Hampton Roads. Its a mission that is deeply personal to him, not just because of his work in medicine, but because of the loss he experienced to COVID-19.
Davis says we are almost at the finish line and cannot let our guards down.
As we reopen our doors, make sure that, if youre fully vaccinated, great, said Davis. If youre not, you want to still take the precautionary steps. COVID has killed a lot of people. Its taken a lot of our loved ones away.
Its a message that is personal for him.
When my brother lost his life to COVID last year, April 23. I was really charged on what can I do besides the obvious, being in the hospital, taking care of sick people, but how can I make people informed, said Davis.
That is why he is reminding people to get tested for COVID-19 and taking that a step further by opening testing centers.
Its very important that, as an emergency medicine physician, that I step outside the hospital walls and go into the community, said Davis.
Hes opened two centers in New York, one in Miami, and three in New Jersey, where he is based.
Although the vaccine is readily available, COVID testing is still necessary, Davis said. Testing is very helpful because it allows us to now let down our guards.
Davis eyes are now on Hampton Roads, and he is hoping to find community partners to open testing centers in the Seven Cities. He is also looking for medical professionals to help with the centers.
He hopes the sites will remind people to stay vigilant until we reach herd immunity.
If you want to be involved, you can contact Davis by clicking here.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of June 8, 2021, there have been 2,955,954 total confirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 162,636 total cases and 2,822 deaths.
DHHR has confirmed the death of a 62-year old female from Randolph County. We extend our sincere condolences to this family, said Bill J. Crouch, DHHR Cabinet Secretary. Lets continue taking every precaution we can to stop the spread of this disease, including scheduling a COVID-19 vaccination for yourself and all eligible family members.
CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (1,507), Berkeley (12,757), Boone (2,168), Braxton (991), Brooke (2,240), Cabell (8,829), Calhoun (372), Clay (540), Doddridge (630), Fayette (3,529), Gilmer (875), Grant (1,301), Greenbrier (2,872), Hampshire (1,912), Hancock (2,837), Hardy (1,563), Harrison (6,091), Jackson (2,220), Jefferson (4,763), Kanawha (15,399), Lewis (1,273), Lincoln (1,567), Logan (3,249), Marion (4,604), Marshall (3,528), Mason (2,040), McDowell (1,609), Mercer (5,087), Mineral (2,966), Mingo (2,712), Monongalia (9,371), Monroe (1,191), Morgan (1,222), Nicholas (1,874), Ohio (4,299), Pendleton (722), Pleasants (959), Pocahontas (680), Preston (2,941), Putnam (5,301), Raleigh (6,996), Randolph (2,812), Ritchie (754), Roane (654), Summers (854), Taylor (1,259), Tucker (545), Tyler (739), Upshur (1,947), Wayne (3,173), Webster (537), Wetzel (1,378), Wirt (453), Wood (7,912), Wyoming (2,032).
Free pop-up COVID-19 testing is available today in Barbour, Berkeley, Boone, Brooke, Clay, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Morgan, and Wyoming counties.
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9:00 AM 11:00 AM, Barbour County Health Department, 109 Wabash Avenue, Philippi, WV
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EXPLAINER: The US investigation into COVID-19 origins The Associated Press
With COVID-19 vaccination rates waning and workplace outbreaks contributing to infections, Illinois' employers could play a key role in stamping out the pandemic, public health experts say.
Illinois Department of Public Health data showed Tuesday that 36% of virus outbreaks in the last 30 days were evenly spread among four locations: factory or manufacturing sites, restaurants, retail/sales and a generic workplace category.
"We need to figure out a way to get vaccines to where people work, live and congregate because not everybody has the flexibility to take time off, to find a clinic, and drive there," said Dr. Marina Del Rios Rivera, an emergency medicine professor at the University of Illinois' College of Medicine.
The solution is for more employers to hold workplace clinics with assistance from the state or county health departments, she said. "We've got to make it easy for people if we really want to eradicate this pandemic."
Currently, IDPH is reporting some of the lowest daily case rates since the pandemic began 15 months ago, but "I think we probably recognize that places with not enough physical distancing and inappropriate PPE provided always will be a source of outbreaks," Del Rios Rivera said, referring to personal protective equipment such as masks.
Sources include food-packing plants, factories and manufacturing sites where workers are in proximity and engaged in physical labor, she said. "Anytime you're exerting yourself there are more particles in the air that are shared."
Employers can take three key steps: Set up a vaccination clinic for workers and their families, permit employees to take time off to be vaccinated, and -- should anyone suffer side effects from vaccine doses -- allow workers to stay at home and recover.
The workplace approach "makes a lot of sense, especially in areas where we know have been responsible for outbreaks," Del Rios Rivera said.
Chicago passed an ordinance in April offering protection for workers who get the COVID-19 vaccine. The state "does not require employers in Illinois to allow employees to be vaccinated during working hours, but we strongly encourage it," IDPH spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said.
Employers who wish to hold a vaccination clinic can contact IDPH for assistance or their local health department. No cost is involved.
DuPage County is "partnering with municipalities, businesses, and community-based organizations to bring smaller COVID-19 vaccine clinics to individuals who have not yet been vaccinated," health department spokeswoman Stephanie Calvillo said.
Employers also can email the American Hospital Association at COVID19@aha.org to be connected with a local vaccine provider that can "work with you to host an onsite pop-up clinic, and usually make it happen in a matter of days," White House COVID-19 Coordinator Andy Slavitt said in a statement released Tuesday.
IDPH reported 365 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday with 11 more deaths from the respiratory disease. On Monday, 44,174 more COVID-19 shots were administered. The seven-day average is 42,852.
The federal government has delivered 13,919,385 doses of vaccine to Illinois since distribution began in mid-December, and 11,708,874 shots have been administered.
So far, 5,606,931 people -- 44% of Illinois' population -- have been fully vaccinated. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two doses several weeks apart.
The federal government has approved Pfizer's vaccines for individuals age 12 and older. There are 10,837,805 Illinoisans eligible for shots, according to the U.S. Census, and 51.7% of them are fully vaccinated.
Illinois hospitals were treating 791 COVID-19 patients Monday night.
The state's seven-day case positivity rate is 1.1%.
Total cases statewide stand at 1,385,854 and 22,974 Illinoisans have died since the pandemic began.
Labs processed 36,408 virus tests in the last 24 hours.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that most of the remaining COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted once 70 percent of New Yorkers aged 18 or older have received the first dose of their COVID-19 vaccination series. State'sNew York Forwardindustry specific guidelines including capacity restrictions, social distancing, cleaning and disinfection, health screening, and contact information for tracing will become optional for retail, food services, offices, gyms and fitness centers, amusement and family entertainment, hair salons, barber shops and personal care services, among other commercial settings.Large-scale event venues, pre-K to 12 schools, public transit, homeless shelters, correctional facilities, nursing homes, and healthcare settings must continue to follow the State's guidelines until more New Yorkers are vaccinated.
Unvaccinated individuals will still be responsible for maintaining proper social distancing of six feet and wearing a mask as per federal CDC guidance.Consistent with the State'simplementationof the recent CDCguidance, masks will still be required forunvaccinated individuals.Large-scale event venues, Pre-K to 12 schools, public transit, homeless shelters, correctional facilities, nursing homes and health care settings will be exempt from the restriction lift. In those settings, New York State's existing COVID-19 health protocolswill remain in effect.
"The lifting of our COVID restrictions is a sign of how hard New Yorkers have worked to contain the spread of the virus and protect their communities,"Governor Cuomo said."With numbers trending at record lows, it is clear that the vaccine is effective and that it is an invaluable tool against the virus. While we have come so far it is still imperative that those who have not received the vaccine do so, so that they may enjoy the state's reimagined reopening to the fullest extent possible."
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a declaration Tuesday calling for urgent action to end AIDS by 2030, noting with alarm that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities and pushed access to AIDS medicines, treatments and diagnosis further off track.
The declaration commits the assemblys 193 member nations to implement the 18-page document, including reducing annual new HIV infections to under 370,000 and annual AIDS-related deaths to under 250,000 by 2025. It also calls for progress toward eliminating all forms of HIV-related stigma and discrimination and for urgent work toward an HIV vaccine and a cure for AIDS.
Without a huge increase in resources and coverage for those vulnerable and infected, we will not end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, the assembly warned.
It said the coronavirus pandemic has created setbacks in combating AIDS, widening fault lines within a deeply unequal world and exposing the dangers of under-investment in public health, health systems and other essential public services for all and pandemic preparedness.
While the international investment response to the pandemic is inadequate, it is nonetheless unprecedented, the assembly said.
The response to the coronavirus by many nations has demonstrated the potential and urgency for greater investment in responding to pandemics, underscoring the imperative of increasing investments for public health systems, including responses to HIV and other diseases moving forward, it said.
The assembly adopted the resolution at the opening session of a three-day high-level meeting on AIDS by a vote of 165-4, with Russia, Belarus, Syria and Nicaragua voting no.
Before the vote, the assembly overwhelmingly rejected three amendments proposed by Russia.
They would have eliminated references to human rights violations that perpetuate the global AIDS epidemic and a rights-based collaborative approach by UNAIDS, the U.N. agency leading the global effort to end the AIDS pandemic They would also have dropped references to reforming discriminatory laws, including on the age of consent, on interventions to treat HIV among intravenous drug users including opioid substitution therapy, and on expanding harm reduction programs.
UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima welcomed the declarations adoption and told the assembly it will be the basis of our work to end this pandemic that has ravaged communities for 40 years.
Calling AIDS one of the deadliest pandemics of modern times, she said 77.5 million people have been infected with HIV since the first case was reported in 1981 and nearly 35 million have died from AIDS.
HIV rates are not following the trajectory that we together promised, she said. Indeed, amidst the fallout from the COVID crisis, we could even see a resurgent pandemic.
Byanyima said COVID-19 showed that science moves at the speed of political will and urged speeded up spending on innovations for AIDS treatment, prevention, care and vaccines as global public goods.
On the plus side, the assemblys declaration said that since 2001 there has been a 54% reduction in AIDS-related deaths and a 37% reduction in HIV infections globally, but it warned that overall progress has slowed dangerously since 2016.
The assembly expressed deep concern that in 2019 there were 1.7 million new infections compared to the 2020 global target of fewer than 500,000 infections and that new HIV infections have increased in at least 33 countries since 2016.
Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, has demonstrated the most progress in tackling the AIDS epidemic but it also remains the worst-affected region, the assembly said. It called for urgent and exceptional action to curb the infections devastating effects, especially on women, adolescent girls and children.
Assembly members welcomed progress in reducing HIV-infections and AIDS-related deaths in Asia and the Pacific, the Caribbean, Western and Central Europe and North America. But they noted that despite progress, the Caribbean continues to have the highest prevalence outside sub-Saharan Africa, while the number of new HIV infections is increasing in eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.
Byanyima stressed the importance of ending inequalities in the availability of drugs, and ensuring that medicines that can prevent deaths of people living with HIV are manufactured by multiple producers at affordable prices, especially in the global south, where the disease is concentrated.
This moment calls for us to work together across sectors, across countries, she said. Populisms false promises are proving no match to biology: As COVID reminds us, were not just interconnected, were inseparable.
We cannot end AIDS in one country or one continent. We can only end AIDS everywhere, Byanyima said.
