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Dr. William Winn, left, was the first staff member at Hunt Regional Medical Center to receive an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine from Employee Health Nurse Shanon Young, right, Thursday. The hospital was one of the first in North Texas to receive a shipment of the vaccine by Pfizer.
Courtesy photo Hunt Regional Medical Center administers first doses of COVID-19 vaccine
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Dec 18, 2020
Dr. William Winn, left, was the first staff member at Hunt Regional Medical Center to receive an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine from Employee Health Nurse Shanon Young, right, Thursday. The hospital was one of the first in North Texas to receive a shipment of the vaccine by Pfizer.
Katie Thomas, The New York Times
Published: 17 Dec 2020 12:07 PM BdST
Updated: 17 Dec 2020 12:07 PM BdST Pharmacy manager Larren Suh prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, US, Dec 16, 2020. REUTERS
As boxes of Pfizer vaccines began arriving around the country this week, hospital pharmacists made a surprising discovery: Some of the glass vials that are supposed to hold five doses contained enough for a sixth or even a seventh person. );
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The news prompted a flurry of excited exchanges on Twitter and pharmacy message boards this week as hospital workers considered the tantalising possibility that the limited supply of desperately needed vaccine might be stretched to reach more people.
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