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Faces of Covid: Tulsa Health Department executive dies after contracting COVID-19, agency says | Local News | tulsaworld.com – RIP

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Tulsa Health Department on Sunday confirmed its Division Chief of Adolescent and Child Health died after apparently contracting COVID-19. She had a nearly 35-year career with the agency.

Pam Rask, 61, worked as THD’s Division Chief of Adolescent and Child Health at the time of her death on Saturday. It was unclear Sunday when she contracted the virus, but a public Facebook post from relatives indicated Rask had been hospitalized and placed on a ventilator after testing positive.

Source: Faces of Covid: Tulsa Health Department executive dies after contracting COVID-19, agency says | Local News | tulsaworld.com

RRH Opens New Temporary COVID-19 Facility in Webster

WEBSTER, N.Y. — ​There will be a new nursing home option that will serve COVID-19 patients only, after another executive order signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Rochester Regional Health is opening Empire Manor, a new temporary facility at its Hill Haven campus to serve as a COVID-19 dedicated nursing home.

This facility will accept nursing home residents who’ve been hospitalized with COVID-19 and are no longer symptomatic, but aren’t able to return to their nursing home until they’re fully recovered.

The goal is to free up hospital beds while continuing to help the most vulnerable patients.

Source: RRH Opens New Temporary COVID-19 Facility in Webster

DC health care workers can now schedule COVID-19 vaccinations | WTOP

“The sooner we get those who work in health care settings vaccinated, the sooner we can move through our other phases and get the rest of our community access to this safe and effective vaccine.”

So far, nearly 21,000 people in Maryland and over 41,000 people in Virginia have received the coronavirus vaccine.

Source: DC health care workers can now schedule COVID-19 vaccinations | WTOP

People camp out to get COVID-19 vaccine in Lehigh Acres – Florida

At least 10 people were camping out in Lehigh Acres Monday night in hopes to be first in line for round two of coronavirus vaccines at East County Regional Library Tuesday.

The lines became so long in Estero Monday, the health department had to turn people away.

The first couple we spoke to in the Lehigh Acres line told us they arrived at the site at 1:30 p.m. They said they haven’t seen their kids in almost a year

The next person in line, Frank Conway, told us he was celebrating his 78th birthday, and a vaccine would be the best gift yet.

When our crew was at the site in Estero, a sign read “no more vaccines.”

“We couldn’t get anywhere near this place,” said John Stone, who has not yet been vaccinated. “There must have been a thousand cars here.”

Source: People camp out to get COVID-19 vaccine in Lehigh Acres

El Paso Covid-19 task force member tests positive for virus | KFOX

(credit: kfox14/cbs4) - interview with Dr. Ogechika Alozie on Covid-19 vaccine distribution and effectiveness / Dec. 22

Dr. Ogechika Alozie is the co-chair of El Paso’s Covid-19 task force and a member of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s infectious disease preparedness task force.

Today Alozie confirmed he and his wife had tested positive for Covid-19 on December 18, however says he is unaware how he and his wife contracted the virus, saying he followed all protocols.

Alozie tells KFOX14 he and his wife experienced only mild symptoms. He experienced headaches while his wife experienced some body aches.

Alozie says he did take monoclonal antibodies to aid in recovery.

Both he and his wife have isolated for the past ten days and have been cleared for work.

Source: El Paso Covid-19 task force member tests positive for virus | KFOX

Lawyer questions US immigration’s holding (Jamaican) men cleared by court

“Judge Chris McAliley of the Southern District of Florida [US] District Court terminated the detention against all four Jamaicans on the basis that there was in fact no evidence of a find of cocaine and that instead, it was merely gasoline which had been misidentified as such, and ordered that the men be sent to immigration to be sent home to Jamaica. As a result, there were no charges whatsoever laid against any of the four men,” Samuels told a virtual press briefing yesterday.

“These are Jamaicans who left Jamaica declaring their port of destination and armed with their passports, which were examined by Jamaican immigration. These passports were taken from them by the US Coast Guard. We now demand that, through our foreign ministry, the passports of these four Jamaicans be returned to them to facilitate their departure from the United States, back home, by way of an ordinary international flight,” Samuels said.

Source: Lawyer questions US immigration’s holding men cleared by court

1831 was a pivotal year in Jamaica’s history

“It was the year when Messrs Jordon and Osborne — after they had established the Watchman paper — were both imprisoned; the former twice, for five months each time. At the close of the second term of imprisonment, Mr Edward Jordon was tried for his life on the charge of having published seditious matter in the Watchman. The paragraph which was denominated ‘seditious’ matter was this: ‘Now that the member for Westmoreland (Mr Beaumont) has come over to our side, we will, by a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, bring down the system by the run, knock off the fetters, and let the oppressed go free.’ On the day of Mr Jordon’s trial the courtroom was thronged with… men, who had armed themselves, and were determined, if the sentence of death were pronounced upon Mr Jordon, to rescue him at whatever hazard. It is supposed that their purpose was conjectured by the judges — at any rate, they saw fit to acquit Mr J and give him his enlargement.”

Source: 1831 was a pivotal year in Jamaica’s history