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Dec 29, 2020 7:07 AM
Today, Gov. Andy Beshear and Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, said the next priority group (Phase 1b) for vaccination will be Kentuckians who are at least 70 years old, as well as first responders and educators.
Depending on the vaccine distribution schedule, Phase 1b could begin as early as Feb. 1, 2021, plus or minus a week.
The Governor said 40 additional sites will receive vaccine doses for the first time this week.
“Remember, this vaccine roll out is, I think, one of the toughest and largest logistics challenges we’ve seen since World War II,” said Gov. Beshear. “It’s not going to be clean the entire time – we’re building the airplane while we’re flying it – but right now, we believe we’ve got the right plan in the right way to distribute this vaccine equitably all across the state.”
We can see victory : First COVID-19 vaccine shots given in Kentucky at U of L Health Deborah Yetter, Louisville Courier Journal
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Declaring let s knock this thing out, Dr. Jason Smith, chief medical officer at University of Louisville Health, on Monday became the first person in Kentucky to receive a dose of the new COVID-19 vaccine.
Gov. Andy Beshear was on hand to watch as Smith, who is a trauma surgeon, two nurses and two other doctors in quick succession were injected with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine approved just last week for emergency use in patients.
COVID-19 vaccines arrive at Med Center Health
December 14, 2020
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Med Center Health in Bowling Green received their first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines on Monday.
In what will forever be remembered as a monumental event in the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials at The Medical Center in Bowling Green say they are honored to have been selected by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Kentucky Commissioner for Public Health Dr. Steven Stack to be one of the first hospitals in Kentucky to receive an allocation of the initial Pfizer vaccine.
“We have been preparing for receipt and distribution since notified that Med Center
Louisville Courier Journal
More than nine months after the coronavirus pandemic began, the first people in Kentucky to receive the vaccine were inoculated Monday morning.
A crowd formed at University of Louisville Hospital as health care workers at the facility were the first in the city to receive doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which shipped from Michigan to Louisville and then across the country Sunday. A separate and similar vaccine from Moderna should be made available later this month.
Five hospital workers were vaccinated on stage Monday morning, but that line will get longer in the weeks and months ahead as the vaccine becomes more available to people in Kentucky and the rest of the nation. Questions about the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history, though, are not uncommon, and here are answers to a few of the biggest ones: