“This vaccine is almost 100% sure to prevent you or your loved one from getting a serious infection,” Adams said. “That’s how we end this pandemic. “
Officials have begun distributing vaccines to health care workers and long-term care residents. But it is likely that most Americans will not be vaccinated until 2021, when more doses will be taken and distributed. The U.S. is on track to receive 20 million vaccine doses by the end of December, 50 million by the end of January and 100 million by the end of February, Adams said.
While the process of getting the two necessary doses to Americans is a daunting task, Adams said he is more concerned about vaccine confidence than he is about vaccine supply.
“It’s okay to have questions. It’s okay to ask questions,” he said. “What is not okay is to let misinformation or mistrust force you to make a decision that will be bad for your health, or the health of your family, or the health of your community.”
5 health care workers in Alaska are adversely affected
As vaccines make their way to the public, some have reported side effects.
Two more health care workers at Providence Health Alaska suffered adverse effects from the coronavirus vaccine, a reporter told CNN on Saturday. In total, five have been adversely affected across the state.
His reactions were mild and non-judgmental, Mikal Canfield said.
The healthcare company noted that these four employees represented “less than 0.15% of the approximately 3,000 who have so far received vaccinations across the Aurora Health Candidate” and that the break provided an opportunity your “time to gain a better understanding of the purpose of the reactions. Vaccination, however, continued in eight other locations throughout Illinois and Wisconsin.
The health care system said the program will begin on Sunday with an increase of 30 minutes to the assessment time after vaccination out of adequate warning.
Adams said allergic reactions to coronavirus vaccines are not “unusual or unexpected.”
“The system works,” Adams said at a news conference hosted by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. “We recognize and capture these very rare side effects.”
‘We need LA to turn into a ghost town again’
With increasing transmission rates, California has re-imposed restrictions to mitigate coronavirus transmission.
The current spike of Covid-19 in California is “, by and large, the worst it has been in the last 9 months,” Drs. Thomas Yadegar, ICU director at Cedars Providence-Sinai Tarzana Providence Medical Center in Los Angeles, said in an interview on the “CNN Newsroom.”
The state has consistently set high daily rates in hospitals and deaths and ICU bed capacity has dropped near zero in many parts of the state.
“Right now, we need to turn LA into a ghost town again. That’s what we need. So that we can try to save so many people and heal so many souls,” Yadegar said.
“No matter how hard we try to get patients better, to stabilize them, and hopefully get patients home, there seem to be four more sick patients waiting for the that one bed, “Yadegar told Paul Vercammen at CNN.
Yadegar said patients coming to his hospital are “much sicker than the last four months.”
He believes many people are waiting too long to be admitted to hospitals that are already horrible, he said.
“I had a patient last week who was waiting too long. And I asked them, ‘Why don’t you come in earlier?’ And it broke my heart but what he said e … ‘I didn’t want to take someone else’s bed. I didn’t want to take someone else’s bed. I thought someone was going to be sicker and in need of more,’ “Yadegar said.
Lauren Mascarenhas from CNN, Hollie Silverman, Gisela Crespo and Paul Vercammen contributed to this report.