Vibrant Health CEO Patrick Sallee joined the Update and shared the Moderna vaccine had arrived December 22nd and all the health care workers who were interested in receiving it at Vibrant were successfully vaccinated. Additional doses of Moderna are now being shared through Wyandotte County to get other health care workers on the front line vaccinated at the former K-Mart at 78th and State Avenue. Vibrant also gifted 250 shots to The University of Kansas Health System per instructions from KDHE that the vaccine should go to front line workers first. Sallee said more education needs to be done about the COVID-19 vaccines, even for health care workers who have qualms about getting a shot. Salle says the more common reasons for declining to be vaccinated included being generally leery of vaccines, a lack of understanding about the current COVID-19 vaccines and feelings of being immune because they had COVID-19 earlier in the year.
Dr. Steve Stites, Chief Medical Officer at The University of Kansas Health System and Dr. Dana Hawkinson, Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control agreed that even if a person had COVID-19 earlier in the year, they should be vaccinated. Both doctors also disputed rumors that 1 in 4 people who received the vaccine suffer a partial facial paralysis. Dr. Hawkinson reminded viewers that in the Pfizer trials involving 30,000 participants there were four total cases of facial paralysis called Bell’s Palsy which the CDC said is not above the rate found in the general population. And, the CDC reported those cases were not conclusively caused by receiving the vaccine. Dr. Stites said reactions to the vaccine here at the health system have been limited to some facial flushing, a metallic taste and vaccine site redness and/or soreness seen with other common vaccinations.
Dr. Hawkinson said vaccine and CDC scientists reviewing a new reported variant strain of COVID-19 appears to make the virus potentially more rapidly transmissible than other current strains circulating. Researchers and public health officials add the new variant should not pose any challenges for the COVID-19 vaccines and they should protect against this strain, too.
Dr. Stites said shared the health system had given around 60 monoclonal antibody infusion to high risk positive COVID-19 cases and work was underway to get the infusion faster to qualifying patients who present in the emergency department. Dr. Stites said he also observed better mask wearing over the holidays and fewer crowds gathering which made him hopeful we could be bending the curve in the greater metro area.
Tuesday, December 29 at 8:00 a.m. Dr. Hawkinson shows every step in getting the vaccine as he goes through the process live during the Update. Vaccine experts and doctors Barbara Pahud (pa HUDE – rhymes with rude), MD., MPH, Research Director of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases at Children’s Mercy and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the KU School of Medicine and Mario Castro, M.D., MPH, Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research at KUMC join to answer vaccine and pediatric COVID-19 related questions.
ATTENTION: media procedure for calling in:
The meeting is available by Zoom, both video and by phone. To join the Zoom Meeting by video, click https://kumc-ois.zoom.us/j/7828978628
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For those without Zoom, call 1-312-626-6799, meeting ID: 782 897 8628.
The feed is also available via TVU grid. The TVU source is UoK_Health and is being made available to all.
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Vibrant Health CEO Patrick Sallee joined the Update and shared the Moderna vaccine had arrived December 22nd and all the health care workers who were interested in receiving it at Vibrant were successfully vaccinated. Additional doses of Moderna are now being shared through Wyandotte County to get other health care workers on the front line vaccinated at the former K-Mart at 78th and State Avenue. Vibrant also gifted 250 shots to The University of Kansas Health System per instructions from KDHE that the vaccine should go to front line workers first. Sallee said more education needs to be done about the COVID-19 vaccines, even for health care workers who have qualms about getting a shot. Salle says the more common reasons for declining to be vaccinated included being generally leery of vaccines, a lack of understanding about the current COVID-19 vaccines and feelings of being immune because they had COVID-19 earlier in the year.
Dr. Steve Stites, Chief Medical Officer at The University of Kansas Health System and Dr. Dana Hawkinson, Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control agreed that even if a person had COVID-19 earlier in the year, they should be vaccinated. Both doctors also disputed rumors that 1 in 4 people who received the vaccine suffer a partial facial paralysis. Dr. Hawkinson reminded viewers that in the Pfizer trials involving 30,000 participants there were four total cases of facial paralysis called Bell’s Palsy which the CDC said is not above the rate found in the general population. And, the CDC reported those cases were not conclusively caused by receiving the vaccine. Dr. Stites said reactions to the vaccine here at the health system have been limited to some facial flushing, a metallic taste and vaccine site redness and/or soreness seen with other common vaccinations.
Dr. Hawkinson said vaccine and CDC scientists reviewing a new reported variant strain of COVID-19 appears to make the virus potentially more rapidly transmissible than other current strains circulating. Researchers and public health officials add the new variant should not pose any challenges for the COVID-19 vaccines and they should protect against this strain, too.
Dr. Stites said shared the health system had given around 60 monoclonal antibody infusion to high risk positive COVID-19 cases and work was underway to get the infusion faster to qualifying patients who present in the emergency department. Dr. Stites said he also observed better mask wearing over the holidays and fewer crowds gathering which made him hopeful we could be bending the curve in the greater metro area.
Tuesday, December 29 at 8:00 a.m. Dr. Hawkinson shows every step in getting the vaccine as he goes through the process live during the Update. Vaccine experts and doctors Barbara Pahud (pa HUDE – rhymes with rude), MD., MPH, Research Director of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases at Children’s Mercy and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the KU School of Medicine and Mario Castro, M.D., MPH, Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research at KUMC join to answer vaccine and pediatric COVID-19 related questions.
ATTENTION: media procedure for calling in:
The meeting is available by Zoom, both video and by phone. To join the Zoom Meeting by video, click https://kumc-ois.zoom.us/j/7828978628
Telephone dial-in Participants: PLEASE NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER
For those without Zoom, call 1-312-626-6799, meeting ID: 782 897 8628.
The feed is also available via TVU grid. The TVU source is UoK_Health and is being made available to all.
Feel free to send questions in advance to medicalnewsnetwork@kumc.edu.
Vibrant Health CEO Patrick Sallee joined the Update and shared the Moderna vaccine had arrived December 22nd and all the health care workers who were interested in receiving it at Vibrant were successfully vaccinated. Additional doses of Moderna are now being shared through Wyandotte County to get other health care workers on the front line vaccinated at the former K-Mart at 78th and State Avenue. Vibrant also gifted 250 shots to The University of Kansas Health System per instructions from KDHE that the vaccine should go to front line workers first. Sallee said more education needs to be done about the COVID-19 vaccines, even for health care workers who have qualms about getting a shot. Salle says the more common reasons for declining to be vaccinated included being generally leery of vaccines, a lack of understanding about the current COVID-19 vaccines and feelings of being immune because they had COVID-19 earlier in the year.
Dr. Steve Stites, Chief Medical Officer at The University of Kansas Health System and Dr. Dana Hawkinson, Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control agreed that even if a person had COVID-19 earlier in the year, they should be vaccinated. Both doctors also disputed rumors that 1 in 4 people who received the vaccine suffer a partial facial paralysis. Dr. Hawkinson reminded viewers that in the Pfizer trials involving 30,000 participants there were four total cases of facial paralysis called Bell’s Palsy which the CDC said is not above the rate found in the general population. And, the CDC reported those cases were not conclusively caused by receiving the vaccine. Dr. Stites said reactions to the vaccine here at the health system have been limited to some facial flushing, a metallic taste and vaccine site redness and/or soreness seen with other common vaccinations.
Dr. Hawkinson said vaccine and CDC scientists reviewing a new reported variant strain of COVID-19 appears to make the virus potentially more rapidly transmissible than other current strains circulating. Researchers and public health officials add the new variant should not pose any challenges for the COVID-19 vaccines and they should protect against this strain, too.
Dr. Stites said shared the health system had given around 60 monoclonal antibody infusion to high risk positive COVID-19 cases and work was underway to get the infusion faster to qualifying patients who present in the emergency department. Dr. Stites said he also observed better mask wearing over the holidays and fewer crowds gathering which made him hopeful we could be bending the curve in the greater metro area.
Tuesday, December 29 at 8:00 a.m. Dr. Hawkinson shows every step in getting the vaccine as he goes through the process live during the Update. Vaccine experts and doctors Barbara Pahud (pa HUDE – rhymes with rude), MD., MPH, Research Director of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases at Children’s Mercy and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the KU School of Medicine and Mario Castro, M.D., MPH, Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research at KUMC join to answer vaccine and pediatric COVID-19 related questions.
ATTENTION: media procedure for calling in:
The meeting is available by Zoom, both video and by phone. To join the Zoom Meeting by video, click https://kumc-ois.zoom.us/j/7828978628
Telephone dial-in Participants: PLEASE NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER
For those without Zoom, call 1-312-626-6799, meeting ID: 782 897 8628.
The feed is also available via TVU grid. The TVU source is UoK_Health and is being made available to all.
Feel free to send questions in advance to medicalnewsnetwork@kumc.edu.
Vibrant Health CEO Patrick Sallee joined the Update and shared the Moderna vaccine had arrived December 22nd and all the health care workers who were interested in receiving it at Vibrant were successfully vaccinated. Additional doses of Moderna are now being shared through Wyandotte County to get other health care workers on the front line vaccinated at the former K-Mart at 78th and State Avenue. Vibrant also gifted 250 shots to The University of Kansas Health System per instructions from KDHE that the vaccine should go to front line workers first. Sallee said more education needs to be done about the COVID-19 vaccines, even for health care workers who have qualms about getting a shot. Salle says the more common reasons for declining to be vaccinated included being generally leery of vaccines, a lack of understanding about the current COVID-19 vaccines and feelings of being immune because they had COVID-19 earlier in the year.
Dr. Steve Stites, Chief Medical Officer at The University of Kansas Health System and Dr. Dana Hawkinson, Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control agreed that even if a person had COVID-19 earlier in the year, they should be vaccinated. Both doctors also disputed rumors that 1 in 4 people who received the vaccine suffer a partial facial paralysis. Dr. Hawkinson reminded viewers that in the Pfizer trials involving 30,000 participants there were four total cases of facial paralysis called Bell’s Palsy which the CDC said is not above the rate found in the general population. And, the CDC reported those cases were not conclusively caused by receiving the vaccine. Dr. Stites said reactions to the vaccine here at the health system have been limited to some facial flushing, a metallic taste and vaccine site redness and/or soreness seen with other common vaccinations.
Dr. Hawkinson said vaccine and CDC scientists reviewing a new reported variant strain of COVID-19 appears to make the virus potentially more rapidly transmissible than other current strains circulating. Researchers and public health officials add the new variant should not pose any challenges for the COVID-19 vaccines and they should protect against this strain, too.
Dr. Stites said shared the health system had given around 60 monoclonal antibody infusion to high risk positive COVID-19 cases and work was underway to get the infusion faster to qualifying patients who present in the emergency department. Dr. Stites said he also observed better mask wearing over the holidays and fewer crowds gathering which made him hopeful we could be bending the curve in the greater metro area.
Tuesday, December 29 at 8:00 a.m. Dr. Hawkinson shows every step in getting the vaccine as he goes through the process live during the Update. Vaccine experts and doctors Barbara Pahud (pa HUDE – rhymes with rude), MD., MPH, Research Director of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases at Children’s Mercy and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the KU School of Medicine and Mario Castro, M.D., MPH, Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research at KUMC join to answer vaccine and pediatric COVID-19 related questions.
ATTENTION: media procedure for calling in:
The meeting is available by Zoom, both video and by phone. To join the Zoom Meeting by video, click https://kumc-ois.zoom.us/j/7828978628
Telephone dial-in Participants: PLEASE NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER
For those without Zoom, call 1-312-626-6799, meeting ID: 782 897 8628.
The feed is also available via TVU grid. The TVU source is UoK_Health and is being made available to all.
Feel free to send questions in advance to medicalnewsnetwork@kumc.edu.
Vibrant Health CEO Patrick Sallee joined the Update and shared the Moderna vaccine had arrived December 22nd and all the health care workers who were interested in receiving it at Vibrant were successfully vaccinated. Additional doses of Moderna are now being shared through Wyandotte County to get other health care workers on the front line vaccinated at the former K-Mart at 78th and State Avenue. Vibrant also gifted 250 shots to The University of Kansas Health System per instructions from KDHE that the vaccine should go to front line workers first. Sallee said more education needs to be done about the COVID-19 vaccines, even for health care workers who have qualms about getting a shot. Salle says the more common reasons for declining to be vaccinated included being generally leery of vaccines, a lack of understanding about the current COVID-19 vaccines and feelings of being immune because they had COVID-19 earlier in the year.
Dr. Steve Stites, Chief Medical Officer at The University of Kansas Health System and Dr. Dana Hawkinson, Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control agreed that even if a person had COVID-19 earlier in the year, they should be vaccinated. Both doctors also disputed rumors that 1 in 4 people who received the vaccine suffer a partial facial paralysis. Dr. Hawkinson reminded viewers that in the Pfizer trials involving 30,000 participants there were four total cases of facial paralysis called Bell’s Palsy which the CDC said is not above the rate found in the general population. And, the CDC reported those cases were not conclusively caused by receiving the vaccine. Dr. Stites said reactions to the vaccine here at the health system have been limited to some facial flushing, a metallic taste and vaccine site redness and/or soreness seen with other common vaccinations.
Dr. Hawkinson said vaccine and CDC scientists reviewing a new reported variant strain of COVID-19 appears to make the virus potentially more rapidly transmissible than other current strains circulating. Researchers and public health officials add the new variant should not pose any challenges for the COVID-19 vaccines and they should protect against this strain, too.
Dr. Stites said shared the health system had given around 60 monoclonal antibody infusion to high risk positive COVID-19 cases and work was underway to get the infusion faster to qualifying patients who present in the emergency department. Dr. Stites said he also observed better mask wearing over the holidays and fewer crowds gathering which made him hopeful we could be bending the curve in the greater metro area.
Tuesday, December 29 at 8:00 a.m. Dr. Hawkinson shows every step in getting the vaccine as he goes through the process live during the Update. Vaccine experts and doctors Barbara Pahud (pa HUDE – rhymes with rude), MD., MPH, Research Director of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases at Children’s Mercy and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the KU School of Medicine and Mario Castro, M.D., MPH, Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research at KUMC join to answer vaccine and pediatric COVID-19 related questions.
ATTENTION: media procedure for calling in:
The meeting is available by Zoom, both video and by phone. To join the Zoom Meeting by video, click https://kumc-ois.zoom.us/j/7828978628
Telephone dial-in Participants: PLEASE NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER
For those without Zoom, call 1-312-626-6799, meeting ID: 782 897 8628.
The feed is also available via TVU grid. The TVU source is UoK_Health and is being made available to all.
Feel free to send questions in advance to medicalnewsnetwork@kumc.edu.