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By Katie Lannan and Michael P. Norton, State House News Service
December 17, 2020
Katie Lannan and Michael P. Norton, State House News Service
Boston Medical Center pharmacy technical worker William Senior removed two trays of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, each containing 975 doses, from the box it arrived in Monday morning. Jesse Costa/WBUR photo
As the first Covid-19 vaccines began arriving in Massachusetts on Monday, a 96-year-old World War II veteran in Bedford became the first VA patient in the country to get the shot. The VA Bedford Healthcare system announced the milestone over social media, posting that Margaret Klessens, a resident of the Community Living Center in the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, had received the shot at 12:07 p.m.
‘Feeling good as hell’: Boston Medical Center channels Lizzo to celebrate arrival of COVID vaccines
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
With each arrival of the coronavirus vaccine to hospitals around the country, a sense of joy can be felt through video, pictures and social media posts by the health care facilities.
On Monday evening, Boston Medical Center used singer Lizzo to capture the emotions stirred after it received the vaccine.
Kate Walsh, the president and CEO of Boston Medical Center, shared a TikTok of employees dancing outside to Lizzo’s “Feeling Good as Hell” to commemorate the arrival of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.
Updated: 4:32 AM PST Dec 16, 2020 Less than three days after the first COVID-19 vaccine received government authorization, a World War II veteran in Massachusetts became the first Veterans Affairs patient in the country to get the shot.The VA Bedford Healthcare System s shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived Monday morning and the facility began to administer doses within a few hours.Margaret Klessens, a 96-year-old resident of the Community Living Center in the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, received the shot Monday at 12:07 p.m., the VA Bedford Healthcare System announced in a statement.She said she was pleasantly surprised to be able to get the shot so soon. Hear more about Klessens experience in the video above.Thirteen minutes later, Andrew Miller, a housekeeper in the environmental management services became the first employee to get the jab.
Mass. World War II veteran gets COVID-19 vaccine; first VA patient in country
Katie Lannan and Michael P. Norton
State House News Service
BEDFORD As the first COVID-19 vaccines began arriving in Massachusetts on Monday, a 96-year-old World War II veteran in Bedford became the first VA patient in the country to get the shot.
The VA Bedford Healthcare system announced the milestone over social media, posting that Margaret Klessens, a resident of the Community Living Center in the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital received the shot at 12:07 p.m.
Andrew Miller, a housekeeper in environmental management service, was the first VA Bedford employee to get the vaccine, at 12:20 p.m.