Sonia Bassett is a nurse at The Lady With The Lamp. The group provides home care to patients in Kingwood and Cypress. They are ready to receive 100 doses.
“We hope to receive the vaccine by next week. We don’t have an exact date yet, but we are certainly excited and happy that we can support our elderly population living in the community,” Bassett said. As long as we continue proper hand hygiene, social distance, we will have a safe and effective vaccine, we hope we will allow people to return to their normal lives.
Evelyn Malone-Hicks is a registered nurse and director of clinical operations at the IMU Clinic in Stafford. 800 doses are expected next week. They said they intend to offer vaccinations by appointment only from the new year.
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“As soon as we were able to apply and see if we could be on the list to be one of the suppliers, we didn’t hesitate at all,” said Malone-Hicks. “We are very pleased. We have received information that we will receive it next week on Wednesday.”
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams spoke Monday with Steve Campion of ABC13 in an individual interview. He talked about his experience receiving the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last week.
“I’ve had a bit of a painful arm for a day or so, which is normal after a vaccination. I got this after the flu shot, but I don’t have any other side effects,” Dr. Adams said. “It was important for me to speak. Not just as a general surgeon and national leader, but as an African-American man. I know there are vacations in many communities. I want people to know that these vaccines were not “No safety or science corners have been cut. These are vaccination technologies that have been around for a decade.”
Dr. Adams told ABC13 that people who have recovered from COVID-19 should consider donating their plasma. He urged people to go to the “Fight is in Us” website and consider making a donation.
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“People in Houston should know that right there in Houston, they conducted some studies on convalescent plasma,” said Dr. Adams. “Every time your body is exposed to a virus, it develops antibodies. These antibodies are how your body naturally attacks the virus, how you recover from the virus. Once you recover, these antibodies are in the plasma and can be donated to someone else. . This is called passive immunity. “
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