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The USA has 10x the population therefore the USA vaccination rate has to be 10x faster to achieve herd immunity bu summer 2021.
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The USA has 10x the population therefore the USA vaccination rate has to be 10x faster to achieve herd immunity bu summer 2021.
Mississippi rewrites 'confusing' COVID-19 scheduling script
A spokeswoman says the Mississippi Health Department is rewriting a “confusing” script that employees and contractors read to people scheduling COVID-19 vaccination appointments by phone
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press
March 24, 2021, 2:03 PM ET
• 3 min read
JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Health Department is rewriting a “confusing” script that employees and contractors read to people scheduling COVID-19 vaccination appointments by phone after a professor said her father called and a scheduler disparaged the effectiveness of the Moderna vaccine, a department spokeswoman said.
Elizabeth Wayne is a professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She told The Associated Press on Wednesday that her father, 64-year-old Bobby Wayne, of Clarksdale, is a retired minister who is paraplegic and has leukemia and prostate cancer.
She said her father called a Mississippi Health Department number multiple times to try to schedule a vaccination for himself, and a woman he talked to Monday incorrectly told him “there's no documented proof” that the Moderna vaccine works and asked him: “Do you still want to take it?”
Wayne said her father did not schedule an appointment then but told her about the call. Wayne said she does not doubt what her father heard.
“He has all these problems, but his ears are great,” she said Wednesday.
Wayne posted about her father's experience on Twitter.
“This is the Mississippi Health Department. I’m in disbelief," she tweeted Monday, also describing her father’s treatment from the appointment scheduler as “violence.”
Wayne told the AP that her father called the Health Department again Tuesday and spoke to a different person who did not question the efficacy of any vaccine. She said he set a vaccination appointment.
People can call or go online to schedule COVID-19 vaccinations through the Mississippi Health Department. The department's communications director, Liz Sharlot, said Tuesday that the phone script that employees and contractors are supposed to read “can be confusing" and is being changed because of what happened to the Rev. Wayne.
Part of the old script said: “Do you still want to be vaccinated with an understanding there are currently no available data on the safety or effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, including Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, in pregnant people, lactating people, or immunocompromised people?”
Wayne said her father did not recall hearing the part about people being pregnant, lactating or immunocompromised, so she didn't know if the scheduler might have strayed from the script.
Sharlot said in an email Tuesday: “We are replacing this confusing and misleading language. ... Both Moderna and Pfizer have high efficacy rates.”
The state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, said Tuesday on Twitter that the Health Department would investigate what happened with Wayne's father. Dobbs also tweeted a quote from the New England Journal of Medicine that the type of vaccine made by Moderna “showed 94.1% efficacy at preventing Covid-19 illness, including severe disease. Aside from transient local and systemic reactions, no safety concerns were identified.”
Elizabeth Wayne on Wednesday praised the Health Department's response: “They took this seriously, and that was good.”
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday that Mississippi has administered more than 1 million COVID-19 vaccinations. The state has a population of about 3 million.
Oh come on now Billy. Are you trying to weasel out of admitting how much you love Biden?
Tell us all about it. You started by telling us how great of a job he is doing with the vaccine rollout. Tell us all what else you like about him. Stand up, be strong.
Oh come on now Billy. Are you trying to weasel out of admitting how much you love Biden?
Tell us all about it. You started by telling us how great of a job he is doing with the vaccine rollout. Tell us all what else you like about him. Stand up, be strong.
Here's what I like about Joe Biden: He's 78 years old and could drop dead tomorrow.
Considering that President Biden is merely following the procedures set up by President Trump, maybe Canada should see if they can draft Trump to replace Trudeau as Prime Minister.
They can have Him
Sorry Doesn't wear a MASK
T was and is a disaster
Worst Covid19 response and worst Vaccine rollout in the WORLD
PS THAT'S why the American People FIRED him
BSM, please don't try to pawn your losers on us. Lol
Just to get this straight, you like how he took charge and got the vaccines rolling and that he is old. There must be more. Come on Billy. We all want to know.
No doubt. You have your own Loser in Chief - Trudeau. He's best known for wearing black face. And he tried to "procure" Corona vaccine from China and they left you high and dry and now Canada ranks at the bottom in vaccinations. On the plus side, Trudeau is Canada's first gay prime minister.
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