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Covid Epi Weekly January 29: To Arms, to Arms!
Let’s focus:
Get doses out of freezers and into arms ASAP
Denominators: What % of nursing home residents and staff have been vaccinated?
Improve equity. Reach Black, Latinx, Native American, and all underserved groups now.
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Let’s focus:
Get doses out of freezers and into arms ASAP
Denominators: What % of nursing home residents and staff have been vaccinated?
Improve equity. Reach Black, Latinx, Native American, and all underserved groups now.
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First, let’s get clear about the epidemiology. Better does NOT mean good!! In this case, it means less terrible. The peak of hospitalizations in the prior two surges was 60,000 and we’re at 100,000. So our decreased number is higher than any prior peak. 2/ 
Thanks @NYTimes for working with @ResolveTSL to provide information on risk in every community. I’m horrified to see communities opening because things are “better” when risk is still very very high, as is the risk of new, more infectious variants. 3/ nyti.ms/2MglGKu
By 16th September, 2020, over 250 health workers had tested positive for COVID-19 according to the @MinofHealthUG, this number has since escalated to such levels that even the Ministry of Health fears to disclose. #ProtectHealthWorkers
This has been followed by the numerous deaths of health workers which we see awash in the news.
#ProtectHealthWorkers
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights
#ProtectHealthWorkers
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights
Faced with an insurmountable task of being at the frontline of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, health workers continue to be between a rock and a hard place with an increased risk of getting infected with the virus and losing their lives. #ProtectHealthWorkers
The rapidly increasing spread of Covid-19 pandemic in healthcare settings in Uganda is worrying and further constraining the already overstretched health care system. #ProtectHealthWorkers
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights.
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights.
This is directly affecting patients and healthcare workers, and consequently extended to their families. Safety improvements in healthcare settings need to be given urgent attention. #ProtectHealthWorkers
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights.
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights.
"Ensuring the protection and security of all health workers in all settings is a commitment of states through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ~ #ProtectHealthWorkers
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights
The increasing spread of Covid19 pandemic in healthcare settings in Uganda is alarming & is directly affecting patients & healthcare workers, join @cehurduganda for the press conference on Health Workers' Rights & safety improvements in healthcare settings! #ProtectHealthWorkers
Aim and objectives of the press conference:-
📍The press conference will aim to amplify the voices of healthcare workers on the situation of their safety and wellbeing amidst the rapidly increasing rates of Covid-19 infections in healthcare settings.
#ProtectHealthWorkers
📍The press conference will aim to amplify the voices of healthcare workers on the situation of their safety and wellbeing amidst the rapidly increasing rates of Covid-19 infections in healthcare settings.
#ProtectHealthWorkers
Specific objectives are:-
🩺 To bring to the forefront the realities of healthcare workers as they grapple wth increasing Covid19 infections in thr work places,including the impact on thm&their families,for urgent attention.
#ProtectHealthWorkers
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights.
🩺 To bring to the forefront the realities of healthcare workers as they grapple wth increasing Covid19 infections in thr work places,including the impact on thm&their families,for urgent attention.
#ProtectHealthWorkers
#COVID19AndHealthWorkersRights.
