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Dtknuckles said:
That sounds like some quality screening there. We are required to submit a health screening to have our kid in school.

How long are those classes shut down?
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Each kid in the class has to quarantine for 10 days then they can come back if they have no symptoms. There's no health screening mandatory because I live in Louisiana where requiring kids to see a doctor could be discriminatory since health care access and payment for health care could be a barrier.
 
nolalady said:
Each kid in the class has to quarantine for 10 days then they can come back if they have no symptoms. There's no health screening mandatory because I live in Louisiana where requiring kids to see a doctor could be discriminatory since health care access and payment for health care could be a barrier.
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When I say health screening I mean fill out a questionnaire online. In my district they have been providing testing to staff and students free regardless of where you think you got it. Staff is getting vaccinated at the schools or from other sites if you prefer. I know that is a big ask for most districts, but the superintendent has pushed hard for it, to his credit. In the areas we serve the rates are 2x sometimes 3x the rates of the richer neighborhoods.
 
Dtknuckles said:
When I say health screening I mean fill out a questionnaire online. In my district they have been providing testing to staff and students free regardless of where you think you got it. Staff is getting vaccinated at the schools or from other sites if you prefer. I know that is a big ask for most districts, but the superintendent has pushed hard for it, to his credit. In the areas we serve the rates are 2x sometimes 3x the rates of the richer neighborhoods.
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The problem we have here is that there aren't enough richer neighborhoods/districts to fund this sort of intervention at poorer schools.
 
Yet another reason that we need an office in the CDC for pandemic response--or at least a national strategy of any kind.

America’s COVID-19 vaccine drive is failing to reach Black and Hispanic communities, despite pervasive warnings about their lack of healthcare access and heightened vaccine hesitancy, rooted in distrust of the government and historical episodes of medical exploitation.

The issue has been highlighted by polls and government focus groups since last summer. But there’s been no comprehensive national effort to address the problem from the federal government or major philanthropists, leaving a patchwork of underfunded local activists struggling to fill the void, according to Reuters interviews with fifteen nonprofits and philanthropic groups.

The results of inaction are stark: While U.S. communities of color are at higher risk for severe or fatal COVID-19 infections, white people have been vaccinated at twice the rate of Blacks and two-and-a-half times the rate of Hispanics, according to a March 1 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
www.reuters.com

Black, Hispanic Americans lag in COVID-19 vaccination as outreach...

(Reuters) - It’s a life-threatening problem that’s been long predicted - but that few in the government or private sectors have yet done much to solve. Now the consequences are hitting some of America’s most vulnerable communities.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com

So tell me again how we should rely on private individuals being philanthropic enough to do this through private entities or rely on corporate strategists to roll out vaccinations.
 
I'm on three lists for the vaccine, but it's really bumpy here in Michigan. It's so difficult finding a clinic/pharmacy/college parking lot/football stadium that has openings. Meanwhile, my wife's hospital has to discard unused doses at the end of the day...she's not allowed to text me to say 'come get one of these' because of certain procedures, which I understand, but it's frustrating.

But, have you all heard of Dr B? It's a national stand-by list for vaccines in your area, based on zip code. I'm on that list as of this morning.
hidrb.com

Online medical consultations for $15 - Dr. B

Dr. B provides affordable $15 medical consultations for a range of common conditions, plus a unique no-cost option for patients who qualify at hidrb.com.
hidrb.com hidrb.com
 
ranbalam said:
But, have you all heard of Dr B? It's a national stand-by list for vaccines in your area, based on zip code. I'm on that list as of this morning.
hidrb.com

Online medical consultations for $15 - Dr. B

Dr. B provides affordable $15 medical consultations for a range of common conditions, plus a unique no-cost option for patients who qualify at hidrb.com.
hidrb.com hidrb.com
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it is incredibly frustrating that this is so hit-and-miss. In ohio this is being leveraged through 211 (or 611? I forget) but here in FL it's not being done at all.
 
ranbalam said:
I'm on three lists for the vaccine, but it's really bumpy here in Michigan. It's so difficult finding a clinic/pharmacy/college parking lot/football stadium that has openings. Meanwhile, my wife's hospital has to discard unused doses at the end of the day...she's not allowed to text me to say 'come get one of these' because of certain procedures, which I understand, but it's frustrating.

But, have you all heard of Dr B? It's a national stand-by list for vaccines in your area, based on zip code. I'm on that list as of this morning.
hidrb.com

Online medical consultations for $15 - Dr. B

Dr. B provides affordable $15 medical consultations for a range of common conditions, plus a unique no-cost option for patients who qualify at hidrb.com.
hidrb.com hidrb.com
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yukbon said:
it is incredibly frustrating that this is so hit-and-miss. In ohio this is being leveraged through 211 (or 611? I forget) but here in FL it's not being done at all.
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Wouldn't it be nice to have more of a national strategy for this? sigh
 
nolalady said:
Wouldn't it be nice to have more of a national strategy for this? sigh
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That's exactly what my wife and I were talking about yesterday. It's crazy. In some cases it's down to city by city here in Michigan. A perfect example just happened...I've been scouring the internet trying to find a dose and my boss just got an appt for Monday with zero issues or delays because his city has a program for their residents only.
 
nolalady said:
Wouldn't it be nice to have more of a national strategy for this? sigh
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Careful, your genuine concern for your fellow human is showing. Or maybe just your reasonable understanding of how pandemic should be handled... either way someone might call you a socialist for that kind of thinking.


I keep hearing that we'll all have access to the vaccine by May, but if I've learned anything about State government, it's that Georgia will disappoint me.
 
Texas is now allowing people 50 and up to get the vaccine. Shouldn't be too much longer for me as we're getting closer and closer to my demo. Then all my close family will have been vaccinated.
 
I decided this morning that I have to curb my expectations. I am on so many lists but they are all dead ends so far, as each one I check says they are out of either vaccines or open appointments. I hope by April it will change around here, or maybe a stroke of luck will happen! My friend drove his mom to get hers and they gave him one and an appointment for his 2nd while he was there.
 
ranbalam said:
I decided this morning that I have to curb my expectations. I am on so many lists but they are all dead ends so far, as each one I check says they are out of either vaccines or open appointments. I hope by April it will change around here, or maybe a stroke of luck will happen! My friend drove his mom to get hers and they gave him one and an appointment for his 2nd while he was there.
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Welp, a stroke of luck indeed happened and an appointment opened up when I checked a site on which I was already signed up. I got Moderna dose one today and an appt for dose two in 4 weeks!
 
This may not work for everyone's states but there is a website where you can sign up for text notifications for available vaccines in your area. I got a text this morning that CVS pharmacies in my area had the vaccine. You can then go to the link in the text which will take you to the site of the provider where you can check your eligibility. Since I'm not in the 1A/1B group, I can't get the vaccine yet.

 
mdmost said:
This may not work for everyone's states but there is a website where you can sign up for text notifications for available vaccines in your area. I got a text this morning that CVS pharmacies in my area had the vaccine. You can then go to the link in the text which will take you to the site of the provider where you can check your eligibility. Since I'm not in the 1A/1B group, I can't get the vaccine yet.

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walmart has a similar site, here
 
Yet another call from developing nations for rich countries to share the formula so they can vaccinate their people. Remember, that the science that these vaccines are based on (the hardest part of this whole thing) was done with public money by researchers who's desire was to share their discovery with the world.

The governments of the world's wealthiest countries—including the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom—are facing growing backlash for continuing to block an India and South Africa-led proposal to temporarily waive a restrictive global intellectual property rights agreement, an effort aimed at spurring broad-based production of coronavirus vaccines and getting the shots to poor nations struggling to administer a single dose.

According to Oxfam International, a member of the People's Vaccine Alliance, "rich countries are vaccinating at a rate of one person per second yet are siding with a handful of pharmaceutical corporations in protecting their monopolies against the needs of the majority of developing countries."

On Thursday—the one-year anniversary of the WHO's official global pandemic declaration—representatives from the U.S. and other wealthy nations teamed up to thwart, once again, the push by more than 100 member nations of the World Trade Organization to suspend certain provisions of the so-called TRIPS Agreement, an intellectual property rights arrangement.

"The proposal was co-sponsored by 57 countries in the trade group and on Thursday support split largely along the lines of the WTO's self-identified developed and developing countries," Law360 reported. "The only developing country to oppose the waiver was Brazil."

www.commondreams.org

'Disturbing': Rich Nations Vaccinating Person Per Second While Blocking Effort to Share Recipe With Poor Countries

"There is no reason we have to prioritize the profits of pharmaceutical companies over the dignity of people in other countries," said U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna.
www.commondreams.org www.commondreams.org
 
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