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Celebrity dolphin Winter died of twisted intestines, aquarium says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/13/winter-dolphin-cause-of-death
Winter, who died on Thursday, inspired fans young and old after her tale was amputated when it became entangled in a crab trap rope, cutting off circulation.
A prosthetic tale and a miraculous recovery offered hope to many with illnesses and disabilities.
Fans, including autistic children and soldiers with missing limbs, made pilgrimages to visit Winter, star of the 2011 film Dolphin Tale, which chronicled her recovery.
Shortly after the dolphin arrived following her 2005 rescue, the aquarium partnered with Hanger Clinic, the nation’s largest provider of prosthetic limbs, to create her tail.
Attaching the tail without damaging Winter’s skin was problematic because dolphin skin is so thin it can be cut with a fingernail. Eventually, engineers created a soft silicone-like sleeve, now marketed as WintersGel, over which the prosthetic tail slid snugly.
Such sleeves are now used for human prosthetics, to eliminate skin sores.
Virginia pharmacy gives 112 kids wrong doses of COVID vaccine
https://nypost.com/2021/11/12/virginia-pharmacy-gives-112-kids-wrong-doses-of-covid-vaccine/
“Because they did not have the children’s formulation they used the adult formulation but only gave a third of the amount to the children,” the health department’s director, David Goodfriend, told the Washington Post.
“Our understanding from Ted Pharmacy is they were trying to do a workaround, which is not authorized,” he said.
Authorities confiscated all of the pharmacy’s remaining coronavirus vaccines and ordered it to contact the families who’d received the shots. They were also sent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to still get their second shot in three weeks as planned, or to even restart the two-shot series after that time.
The alarm was only raised by “a good observant parent” who noticed the shots came from vials with the wrong color cap.