Southern Illinois Healthcare frontline workers receive first COVID-19 Vaccine
SIH employees receive COVID-19 vaccine By Colin Baillie | December 17, 2020 at 5:26 PM CST - Updated December 17 at 5:26 PM
CARBONDALE, IL. (KFVS) -Southern Illinois Healthcare administered their first vaccinations Thursday morning.
One of the first to receive it was RN Nurse Glenda Mills of SIH Carbondale.
She said she wasn’t nervous and is relieved. “It was really exciting because a whole bunch of us were outside and they were cheering and celebrating just so happy to finally be to this point.”
Mills said this is not the end of the road, as doctors say darker months are ahead of us. “We still have to deal with the same situation I mean the patients are still going to be in the same conditions. But us personally got a little bit more protection on our side.”
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CARBONDALE, IL â Workers on the front lines of the pandemic with Southern Illinois Healthcare were excited for Vaccine Day Thursday.Â
More than 1,000 workers will be vaccinated with the SIH s first COVID-19 vaccine shipment.
Video shows the first doses being administered to staff. Southern Illinois Healthcare
Registered nurse Glenna Mills with SIH Memorial Hospital says she s worked exclusively in the COVID-19 unit the past few months, and she and asks this of you: Get the shot, wear your mask, show some compassion for other people around us. They are literally hanging on by a thread trying to get through this like the rest of us. Literally, each other is all we have left.
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False claims about COVID are spread over social media, even as heatlh officials try to limit the pandemic s spread.
COVID-19 vaccines could one day end the pandemic. But at the moment, cases and deaths continue to rise. So does misinformation about the disease.
One comment often seen on social media is that deaths are being attributed to COVID even when the patient died of something else. Dr. Sonal Shah, a hospitalist at Southern Illinois Healthcare, says some of that confusion may come from death certificates having two fields.
Part one is the field where doctors enter the cause of death.
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