Dr. Rai joined us on Action 2 News This Morning to discuss a feeling of hope with the expected approval of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine this week.
“The state still is locked into this 70,000-or so doses a week that they’re getting from the federal government, so that pie keeps getting divided up and divided up and divided up, so we’re getting less and less every week."
“Everybody has a different definition of 1A and 1B. Our 1A may have been broader, so there may be more people in it versus somebody else’s 1B. And to be honest with you, certain states got more supply than Wisconsin did. There’s a lot of factors in there,” Dr. Rai said Tuesday on Action 2 News This Morning.
“As of January 18, we’re allowed to immunize fire and police, so they’ll be coming in Monday throughout the week, as well as other people that are in that category 1A."
“So what the state’s saying is as we scale up, as health care providers do, and we’re just one of many in the state, as we scale up, we need to make sure the vaccines are flowing from the federal government into our sites,” says Dr. Ashok Rai, President and CEO of Prevea Health.
“We’re starting to expand who we’re going to vaccinate on that 1A category, even within this week,” says Prevea Health President and CEO Dr. Ashok Rai.
- “I’d say it’s not going very slow. I mean, I understand that somebody else set a goal for us, but when you’re talking about health care, we never want to do anything that’s going to create harm.”
“So right now all we know is what the federal government has decided 1B is going to be, and that’s what they’ve referred to as law enforcement, teachers, and those in education, and those that are 75 and older. "
“I think since March, since we’ve been doing this – the number one thing that I’ve said is -- what we need to defeat this virus is really robust testing because you find out who’s positive."
Dr. Rai joined us Tuesday on Action 2 News This Morning where he talked about the new strain in the United Kingdom and answered questions about Bell’s palsy, diabetes and those who are immunocompromised.
“These are all normal, and also great. Because it means that my body is now developing an immune response to COVID-19, so the fact that I had a sore arm last night is something that I celebrated.”
Dr. Rai joined us Tuesday on Action 2 News This Morning to discuss the operational plan. He also talked about what’s inside the vaccine and how it works.
“We have this unique opportunity of vaccine or vaccines that are showing effectiveness over 90 percent. You combine that with say a 70 percent uptake, we could be done.”
“There’s some logistics to be worked out with the state and the federal government. But hopefully that will happen this week so we’re ready for next week,” says Prevea Health President and CE Dr. Rai.
“Your immune system will then react to that protein and create an immune response to that. And it will remember that immune response,” says Dr. Ashok Rai, Prevea Health President and CEO.
Prevea Health President and CEO Dr. Ashok Rai gave Action 2 News This Morning some insight on the process and what hospitals expect to learn from the federal government.
Dr. Rai joined us Thursday on Action 2 News This Morning to talk about the surge in Wisconsin and how the community and our elected officials need to help fight this battle against COVID-19.
Dr. Rai joined us on Action 2 News This Morning Thursday to discuss the critical situation for our hospitals, expanded COVID-19 testing in Brown County, and how we’re far from flattening the curve.
“What we’ve learned about this virus--it affects your brain. You lose your taste and smell. It affects your heart. It causes myocarditis. It can directly infect your kidneys. That’s very different from a typical, normal respiratory virus."
Prevea Health President and CEO Dr. Ashok Rai joined us on Action 2 News This Morning Tuesday to discuss the therapeutics given the president and what’s next in his recovery.
Prevea Health President and CEO Dr. Ashok Rai joined us Thursday on Action 2 News This Morning and said the state will see death numbers rise as cases surge and hospitalizations increase.
