CRESTVIEW While sitting next to a table that was decorated with Christmas wreaths outside the Silvercrest Health and Rehabilitation Center, 88-year-old Annie Quick on Monday morning became the first person in Okaloosa County to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
After Quick received her shot, 55-year-old Crestview resident and Silvercrest certified nursing assistant Rosemarie Lisenbee received the vaccine.
They marked some of the first COVID-19 vaccinations in Florida, as part of the state’s partnership with CVS Health to administer the free Pfizer vaccine.
Before receiving her shot, Quick, who is a native of Andalusia, Alabama, noted that more than 300,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.
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The state reported Monday 3,186 new positive COVID-19 cases and 29 additional deaths. In the two weeks after Thanksgiving, we were averaging roughly 4,000 new cases per day, Murphy said. For the first three weeks of December we re averaging nearly 4,800 daily cases - a 20% increase. Hospitalizations are 25% higher, ICU counts are up 30%, and ventilator use is up nearly 60%.
Murphy said this is the year for a small Christmas with those in your immediate family bubble. If you insist on a big gathering this year, you re taking a real risk that when next Christmas comes, there will be fewer loved ones gathered around your tree, he said. This is NOT THE YEAR for Christmas-as-usual or New Year s Eve-as-usual. Please do not hold a large, indoor family Christmas gathering or indoor New Year s Eve party. We cannot take the risk of these celebrations leading to a spike in new cases and hospitalizations.
Alabama expects to begin receiving Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Monday In this Monday, July 27, 2020 file photo, a nurse prepares a syringe during a study of a COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, N.Y. (Source: AP Photo/Hans Pennink) By WSFA Staff | December 21, 2020 at 2:26 PM CST - Updated December 21 at 2:53 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are expected to start arriving in Alabama Monday and more doses are expected in the next few days, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
The Moderna vaccine received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration Friday.