First healthcare workers at Baptist Health receive vaccinations
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are at Baptist Health in Madisonville
First healthcare workers at Baptist Health receive vaccinations By 14 News Staff | December 15, 2020 at 10:50 AM CST - Updated December 31 at 8:17 PM
MADISONVILLE, Ky. (WFIE) - Baptist Health officials in Madisonville tell us 975 Pfizer vaccines arrived at the hospital Tuesday morning.
They gave their first employee doses Wednesday afternoon.
The President of Baptist Health, Robert Ramey, sent us the following statement:
“Baptist Health Madisonville has been working tirelessly to care for our community throughout Covid-19. We are excited and grateful to be chosen as one of the first locations in the commonwealth to have the opportunity to vaccinate our healthcare heroes to help stop the spread and devastation caused by this virus. We anxiously await the time when more vaccine becomes available so that our friends and neighbors will become vaccin
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(Undated) – COVID-19 vaccinations are underway.
On December 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the first emergency use authorization (EUA) for a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19.
The approved vaccine comes from Pfizer Inc. and is intended for individuals 16 years of age and older.
“The FDA’s authorization for emergency use of the first COVID-19 vaccine is a significant milestone in battling this devastating pandemic that has affected so many families in the United States and around the world,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D. “Today’s action follows an open and transparent review process that included input from independent scientific and public health experts and a thorough evaluation by the agency’s career scientists to ensure this vaccine met FDA’s rigorous, scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufa
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Courtesy Atrium Health
Atrium Health s Medical Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Katie Passaretti was the first to get the shot in North Carolina, Atrium said Monday. I just got my first COVID vaccine, Passaretti said. I feel perfectly fine.
UPDATE: Atrium Health s Medical Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Katie Passaretti just became the first person in North Carolina to be vaccinated for COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/Le2D1iqFR2 Atrium Health (@AtriumHealth) December 14, 2020
Describing how she felt Monday, Passaretty said, Just a moment of hope, a moment of potential for change of the course that we re on with the pandemic right now. I couldn t be more excited.
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