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‘If I can do it, you can do it,’ says nurse as first McLaren Bay Region staff get coronavirus vaccine
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
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BAY CITY, MI - Five healthcare workers made history Thursday afternoon in Bay County as they rolled up their sleeves and got the first COVID-19 vaccinations at McLaren Bay Region.
“I feel special, I feel excited, I feel like this is just one more step in the right direction as to get back to the life as we knew before the pandemic,” said McLaren emergency department registered nurse Marshana Richardson.
Richardson was joined by respiratory therapist Jim Blundell, Dr. Rajesh Dandamudi, ICU nurse Heath Lamb, and COVID floor nurse Kristie Mish as the first McLaren Bay Region employees on Thursday, Dec. 17 to receive a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. McLaren Bay Region received 975 initial doses of the vaccine and is expecting to receive additional quantities over the next few weeks.
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The light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel so many have been eagerly awaiting shone in Macomb County on Thursday.
Kush Patel of Sterling Heights was the first frontline health care worker in Macomb County to receive Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday at Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren.
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Ascension and Henry Ford Macomb Hospital were the first two medical facilities in the county to debut their vaccine distribution plans. McLaren Macomb hospital in Mount Clemens is scheduled to launch its preventive effort on Friday.
It was a historic and emotional moment to say the least.
More hospitals begin to receive coronavirus vaccine shipments, but are wary on timing of future shipments
Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine arrives at Henry Ford Health System this week.
Increasingly over the past few days, more health systems in Michigan are beginning to receive a steady flow of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine shipments and inoculation efforts have expanded across the state for front-line health care workers.
Five of McLaren Health Care s 15 hospitals on Thursday morning received UPS shipments of vaccines totaling 5,850 doses, said Barton Buxton, president and CEO of McLaren Health Management Group, who is coordinating vaccine efforts. They all came in at once. . There are no promises (of how many). You ask for doses. We asked (the state) for more than 30,000 for our 15 hospitals in the first delivery wave. We asked for the same number for the second delivery, Buxton said.
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