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The Alabama Department of Public Health isn’t saying which three hospitals got the first shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for security sake.
Cullman Regional Medical Center says it will start giving shots today.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 50 percent of the initial vaccine shipment is going to hospital workers on the front lines. Another 30 percent is for doctor’s office staffers and emergency medical technicians who transport COVID patients. A final 20 percent will go to hospital staffers who don’t work at the point of vaccine distribution.
Residents of long-term care facilities and its staff members will get their shots through pharmacy chains. The Pfizer vaccine and the upcoming Moderna product require two shots to be effective. The second inoculation comes three weeks after the first.
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Alabama medical workers begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine today
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Two doctors at Southeast Health in Dothan, Dr. Walter Doty IV (left) and Dr. Ravi Nallamutho (right) received the first vaccines for COVID-19 in Alabama at 8:05 a.m. They were attended by Chris Holland, directorof surgical services and Ben Ryals, nurse manager, ER
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The first COVID-19 vaccine in Alabama was administered Tuesday morning at Southeast Health in Dothan, as hospitals around the state announced plans to begin distributing immunizations later in the day.
Dr. Walter Doty IV, director of the critical care unit at Southeast Health and Dr. Ravi Nallamothu, the director of hospital medicine at Southeast Health, received the first doses a little after 8 a.m.
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Cullman Regional Medical Center receives coronavirus vaccine
Cullman Regional Medical Center received the coronavirus vaccine around 11 a.m. on Monday.
Posted: Dec 14, 2020 6:12 PM
Updated: Dec 14, 2020 6:25 PM
Posted By: Grace Campbell
Three hospitals in Alabama received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine on Monday, and 12 more are receiving it on Tuesday.
Cullman Regional Medical Center is one of the three to receive the vaccine on Monday. The medical center s vice president of marketing and communications, Lindsey Dossey, said they re distributing the vaccine based on employee risk factor.
“We are prioritizing the vaccinations based on risks of each of our team members, how high risk their job is, how high risk their health is, so to make sure that those highest risk will be receiving the vaccination as soon as possible, said Dossey.