Mata was the first to get the vaccine, followed by other frontline staff, including doctors and nurses.
“It is an emotional and exciting day, Methodist Dallas ER Dr. Zachery Dreyfuss said. We have been dealing with this since March. This is the beginning hopefully of the end of the pandemic. Staff members who interact with COVID-19 patients at Methodist Dallas Medical Center were among the first people in the country to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero reports that those who took it say it filled them with hope.
Parkland Memorial Hospital and UT Southwestern in Dallas and Texas Health Resources in Fort Worth are among 19 more Texas hospitals scheduled to receive shipments of the vaccine Tuesday.
Registered nurse gets momentous first Houston-area vaccine at Memorial Hermann
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1of80Robert Luckey, COVID ICU Nurse, receives a dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Houston. Front line workers at Memorial Hermann were some of the first to receive the recently approved vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine was almost 95 percent effective at preventing patients from contracting COVID-19 and caused no major side effects in a trial of nearly 44,000 people.Brett Coomer/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Mindy Warren, employee health manager, right, prepares a dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination for Robert Luckey, COVID ICU nurse, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Houston. A group of front line medical workers at Memorial Hermann Hospital were some of the first to receive the recently approved vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine was almost 95 percent effective at preventing pat
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) The first doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Texas.
MD Anderson Cancer Center was one of four sites in the state to receive 4,875 of the 19,500 doses of the vaccine sent out Monday morning. An additional 19 sites will receive 75,075 doses on Tuesday. They ve been preparing for quite some time to manage cold chain storage and they ve also undergone training for the reconstitution and preparation of the vaccine when it needs to be administered in the clinic, said MD Anderson Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Welela Tereffe.
These are the first images of the COVID-19 vaccine arrival in Houston, specifically at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Courtesy: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Vaccination processes are set to start this coming week, with Houston expecting its shipment on Monday.
Dr. Peter Hotez, professor and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the co-director of the Texas Children s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development said this historical moment has been 17 years in the making, as coronavirus vaccine research has been ongoing since the SARS outbreak in 2003. It s really the culmination of a decade, arguably 17 years of work, Hotez said. I think that messaging is important because people have the impression that somehow these vaccines just popped out of nowhere.
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