Capsules of the antiviral tablet Molnupiravir. Community and independent pharmacies are suffering from COVID-19 remedies for their patients, writes a doctor.
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With COVID-19 cases on the rise in Illinois and across the country, it’s critical that patients can access treatments to prevent them from getting sicker when symptoms call for it. However, federal bureaucracies require pharmacies to go through voluminous procedures to apply and access. Remedies for COVID-19.
During the pandemic, emergency care has been instrumental in helping communities protect themselves, creating systems to help others get tested effectively. In 2020, urgent care clinics saw a 58% increase in visits due to the need for COVID-19 care. adding help patients get remedies to control symptoms.
Among those remedies are antiviral remedies that reduce the threat of prolonged COVID and more severe symptoms. Studies show that such remedies reduce the threat of death by 47% and the threat of hospitalization by 24% in six months. But demanding situations are hampering the habilidad. de independent and network pharmacists to supply remedies to patients who want them.
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Nationally, only 61% of pharmacies will offer one or more treatments for COVID-19. In Illinois, only 66. 6% of the more than 2100 pharmacies will currently offer at least one treatment for COVID-19. To help patients well, they want to be sure that pharmacies can supply those remedies.
Independent and network pharmacies, as well as other providers, rely on a strict formula to request and order COVID-19 curative products purchased through the government.
The Health Partner Order Portal is controlled through the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. U. S. pharmacies and network pharmacies lack the resources to meet the portal’s onerous needs to request antiviral treatments to protect their patients.
Ultimately, this means that providers, including those in urgent care clinics, cannot be sure that the remedies they prescribe will reach the patients who want them. A delayed remedy can potentially mean the difference between the onset of mild COVID-19 symptoms and hospitalization.
To make sure those drugs get into the right hands at the right time and stem the tide of COVID-19, Biden’s leadership will have to ease the administrative burden on independent and in-network physical care providers.
Dr. Benjamin Barlow, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Experiity HealthFormer Chief Medical Officer, American Family Care and member of the White House Medical Unit
Its October 2 editorial about PJM’s programming queue is inaccurate, PJM argues, (“Why wait?Connecting renewable energy projects to the electricity grid”).
As you recognize, PJM is lately a new and reformed interconnection procedure that has been overwhelmingly endorsed by stakeholders and approved through FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The transition era will allow the study of more than 250,000 MW of generation projects that will be incorporated into the PJM grid over the next three years. More than 97% of those projects are solar, wind, garage or hybrid solarium combinations.
One of the main participants in the PJM delay is the processing of the effects of developers presenting speculative projects in the queue. Our new procedure already removes a significant amount of those bulky elements.
When comparing the attention of more than 700 projects for our new “Fast-Lane” fast-track category, we have already noticed that 112 projects dropped out last week because they refused to publish fundamental preparation needs aimed at separating genuine projects from speculative projects.
The most at this level are the obstacles to the advancement of projects that we are seeing that have nothing to do with PJM. Today, approximately 43,000 MW of projects have completed the PJM examination procedure and are expected to move to construction, but this is not the case due to problems similar to local location and delays in the source chain of the appliance.
PJM works with all thirteen states, as well as the District of Columbia, to facilitate its policy goals.
Susan Buehler, Director of Communications, PJM
We had an electric stove and we have friends who have one. They and we don’t like them. They are hard to exploit (“Switching to electricity in Chicago’s new buildings and eliminating stoves and gas heating” – October 3).
There are gasoline-powered equipment, such as electric lawn mowers, snow plows, leaf blowers, and thread mowers, that are destructive to the environment.
Jerry Guth, Carol
Regarding Stefano Esposito’s article on our city’s post-pandemic cultural arts crisis, I’m not sure he and many of his reporters perceive what’s happening (“Post-pandemic ‘crisis’ in Chicago’s cultural art scene is real, new findings report” – October 2).
Chicapass is in the midst of a “crime pandemic” downtown. Most people don’t need to stop by downtown to see our glorious theater groups, restaurants, clubs, and other cultural venues because of the risk of common, rampant violent crime that they engage in on a daily basis.
After 37 years of traveling downtown to see the paintings of LaSalle Street and enjoy many wonderful cultural offerings, I have no preference for coming downtown because of the risk of crime. Our glorious city will continue to decay until we can solve this problem.
Jim McInerney, Willowbrook