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More vaccines on the way to Texas as the COVID-19 situation worsens | The Texas Tribune

“The problem is unrealistic expectations based on the reality on the ground,” said Marshall Cothran, CEO of the Travis County Medical Society, which received 700 doses through a local partnership and had them all scheduled within 48 hours for physicians and staff who are not affiliated with hospitals or other care organizations.

With the new shipments this week, the state has been allotted a total of 1.5 million doses through the first four weeks of distribution, officials said Monday. Providers in 214 of the state’s 254 counties will have received shipments by the end of the week, health officials said.

Source: More vaccines on the way to Texas as the COVID-19 situation worsens | The Texas Tribune

FDA Warns Health Officials Not To Mess With COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Schedule : Coronavirus Updates : NPR

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning health care workers that any changes to the authorized dosing schedules of COVID-19 vaccines currently being administered significantly place public health at risk and undermine “the historic vaccination effort to protect the population” from the coronavirus pandemic. The first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are approved to be delivered within a 21-day window, while the Moderna injections should be spread over 28 days. When given at those intervals, both vaccines are about 95% effective, according to the respective drugmakers.

Source: FDA Warns Health Officials Not To Mess With COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Schedule : Coronavirus Updates : NPR

Jammed LA County hospitals get assistance with overtaxed oxygen-delivery systems – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday, Jan. 4, that the state has convened an oxygen task force and devised a five-part strategy for addressing the higher-than-usual demand for oxygen and related equipment.

Among these strategies was the deployment of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel to area hospitals to evaluate not only their oxygen delivery systems but their ability to add more beds in the event of an increase in patient load, said Mike Petersen, chief of public affairs for the Army Corps’ South Pacific division.

Source: Jammed LA County hospitals get assistance with overtaxed oxygen-delivery systems – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Scientists Debate New Covid-19 Vaccination Tactics as Rollout Falters – The New York Times

“We have an issue with distribution, not the number of doses,” said Saad Omer, a vaccine expert at Yale University. “Doubling the number of doses doesn’t double your capacity to give doses.”

Federal health officials said last week that some 14 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines had been shipped out across the country. But as of Saturday morning, just 4.2 million people in the United States had gotten their first shots.

That number is most likely an underestimate because of lags in reporting. Still, the figure falls far short of the goal that federal health officials set as recently as last month to give 20 million people their first shots by the end of 2020.

Many of these rollout woes are caused by logistical issues — against the backdrop of a strained health care system and skepticism around vaccines. Freeing up more doses for first injections won’t solve problems like those, some researchers argue.

Shweta Bansal, a mathematical biologist at Georgetown University, and others also raised concerns about the social and psychological impacts of delaying second doses.

Barbara Crane Navarro : « L’objectif de mes films, projets d’installation et livres pour enfants est d’attirer l’attention sur la forêt tropicale et les questions autochtones ». | Barbara Crane NavarroBarbara Crane Navarro: “The aim of my films, installation projects and children’s books is to draw attention to the rainforest and indigenous issues.”

Source: Barbara Crane Navarro : « L’objectif de mes films, projets d’installation et livres pour enfants est d’attirer l’attention sur la forêt tropicale et les questions autochtones ». | Barbara Crane Navarro

Found my lost self back😊😃

Soni's thoughts

“Corona, lockdown, sorrow, fear, frustration, depression”, among all these issues, few positive things came out too…have you guys thought about it??? Well…main hoon na… Will explain, gaur farmana doston… 😀😉++AMPLE TIME WITH FAMILY++🏡

yes guys, day by day we are getting too much busy in our work schedule that we are not atall getting adequate time to spend with our people, family…Running behind money, prosperity,position has become everyones only life goal…leaving family, own people behind!! This corona has taught us one good thing which is ‘FAMILY IS ALSO INDISPENSABLE’Not only money but also family is cardinal.So friends this is the high time… Spend your quality time at home to d core…seeing own people happy is d biggest gaiety😀😀++**REBIRTH OF LONG LOST INTERESTS**++This is d most most blissed out thing which happened to not only me but also many of us right??😃😃So this…

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Kelly Loeffler’s new Facebook ad darkens skin of Raphael Warnock, her Black opponent | Salon.com

Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., ran a paid Facebook ad last week that artificially darkened the skin color of her Democratic opponent, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is Black. In fact, the campaign used two of the same clips in their original form for another Facebook ad that ran the same day, but spent 10 times as much money boosting the version in which Warnock appeared darker. Source: Kelly Loeffler’s new Facebook ad darkens skin of Raphael Warnock, her Black opponent | Salon.com

What Kind of Feminist?

Silvia Writes

Machine, Mechanical, Eye, Blue, Look

For a million dollars today, I couldn’t tell you what day it was. At least for the first hour or so.

I woke up thinking it’s Sunday. I should spend time in bed, reading. Slowly, tracing the happenings of the world, I realized it’s Monday. I should get up and check my work email. Get coffee ASAP.

I would’ve preferred reading. I love work, it keeps me centered, but there is this book I’ve started on. A far cry from my usual (mysteries and thrillers). This is a collection of essays by Roxane Gay titled, Bad Feminist.

Before I say more, I need to mention Roxane Gay’s biography, Huger, where she details some deep ways one can hunger – be it for food, love, acceptance, more love. How hungering is so dangerous, so painful – literally. How hungering, in all its forms, destroys, rebuilds, and destroys some…

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