Covid vaccine could start rolling out in Lanarkshire as early as next week

Covid-19 vaccines to clerical staff before medics, we can reveal.Outraged nurses contacted the Record to blow the whistle on the “fiasco” at Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital.They claimed staff in medical records and estates management – who do not deal with patients – had been given the new vaccine first.An insider said: “The events of the last two days have left me and my colleagues outraged.

President-elect Joe Biden will receive his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe. Monday’s event will come the same day that a second vaccine, produced by Moderna, will start arriving in states, joining Pfizer’s in the nation’s arsenal against the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 317,000 people in the United States and upended life around the globe.

Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio posted photos of themselves getting inoculated on the very same Twitter accounts they downplayed the coronavirus and encouraged unsafe gatherings.“There are very, very few instances of known allergic reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine, but Marco Rubio has always thought of himself as one in a million so there’s still hope,” sneered actor George Takei.Actor Billy Baldwin fumed, “Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio getting COVID-19 vaccinations first is the equivalent of

vaccines in response to the Covid-19 pandemic was a “remarkable achievement”.But together with Professor Tim Cook, a consultant from the University of Bristol, Sir Jeremy warned there was still a long way to go.Writing in the journal Anaesthesia, they said: “The scale of the vaccination programme should not be underestimated: 1,000 vaccination centres each vaccinating 500 people a day for five days a week, without interruptions of supply or delivery, would take almost a year to provide two doses

It is now Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday of miracles, where lamp oil for one day lasted for eight as the Maccabees reclaimed the holy Temple in Jerusalem from the Syrian-Greek invaders more than 2,000 years ago.The emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine Friday night by the Food and Drug Administration has the same miraculous feeling of a light at the end of the long and dark COVID-19 tunnel.

SILVER SPRING, Maryland – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late Friday afternoon approved emergency use of Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech’s vaccine. The emergency use authorization allows the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to be distributed in the U.S.

The decision by the Food and Drug Administration Friday night to issue an emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is a critical breakthrough in the battle against the disease that has infected more than 15.7 million Americans and killed nearly 300,000. The FDA ruling that the Pfizer vaccine is safe and effective is just a first step in a massive rollout of the vaccine.

direct to your inboxCommunity roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine is to start in Tameside next week with the jab taking place at five locations in the borough.All primary care networks, which contain GP practices, have signed up to deliver the vaccine and will be responsible for the ‘vast proportion of what will be the biggest vaccination programme in history’.Vaccination sites have been identified and agreed in Hyde, Ashton-under-Lyne, in the Stalybridge, Dukinfield and Mossley area, in Droylsden

READ MORE: Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish Government ‘ready to start Covid vaccines as soon as supplies arrive’Nicola Sturgeon is due to give today’s daily update on the pandemic in Scotland at lunchtime.The First Minister will deliver today’s figures on the impact of the virus from Edinburgh at around 12.15pm, live on BBC Scotland.You can follow along here.Good morning and welcome to today’s coronavirus live blog.We’ll be bringing you all the latest update from the pandemic throughout the

herePlans for NHS staff vaccination are underway and could be ready by the end of the week but details of where they will be vaccinated have not been finalised.All 20,000 NCA staff will be vaccinated by the same nurses who would usually administer their winter flu jabs.But those working in Oldham, Bury and Rochdale may have to travel to Salford Royal Hospital if their workplace, where drop-in clinics would usually be run from, cannot store the Covid vaccine in freezers at the correct

Jeane Freeman said the NHS in Scotland is ready to start distributing the first vaccine, developed jointly by Pfizer and BioNTech, as soon as approval is granted. UK approval of the first vaccine by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is due on Monday, December 7, with jabs being delivered immediately.