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Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital will expand its coronavirus vaccination program to include people over 55 with specific medical conditions at risk, it reported CNBC 6 South Florida.
The director general of the institution, Carlos Migoya, told this medium that the health system had identified certain conditions that are associated with the most serious risks produced by Covid-19. So these will be used as criteria to expedite the vaccination of patients over 55 years of age.
Starting next week, people who qualify for these conditions will be able to get an appointment for vaccination through the jacksonhealth.org website.
The conditions considered by the health authorities are the following: breast cancer, cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), coronary artery disease with bypass, Down syndrome, end-stage renal failure, leukemia, lung cancer, lymphoma , morbid obesity, defined as a body mass index greater than 40, sickle cell disease, and recipient of a solid organ transplant.
This Friday, Florida reached the figure of more than 30 thousand deaths due to Covid-19, after a day in which 6,683 new infections and 218 deaths were reported.
Of the previous high figure, 29,692 people who died were residents of the state, while at least 522 people did not reside in the territory, for a total of 30,214.
Florida is also the state with the most cases of the most contagious variant B.1.1.7 Covid-19, reported for the first time in the United Kingdom, with 433 cases.
The local health authorities also announced that The first case of the Brazilian strain, also called P.1 COVID-19, was reported this Friday in state territory, which could accelerate infections.
However, the territory’s health authorities have already vaccinated at least 2,617,774 residents of the state, and 1,294,225 of them have already received the second dose.
On the other hand, the county of Miami-Dade will open a new coronavirus vaccination center on one of the Miami Dade College Campus with 2,000 doses of vaccines available daily, and with the goal of achieving general immunization of the population and accelerating the recovery of the economy, said State Governor Ron DeSantis. In this county alone, 259,154 people have already been vaccinated.
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