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COVID-19 vaccine is a ‘blessing,’ says first West Michigan doctor to receive a dose
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Dr. Marc McClelland, a physician at Spectrum Health, was the Grand Rapids-based health system s first employee to receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (Courtesy Spectrum Health)
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On Monday, at 12:04 p.m., he made good on his pledge.
McClelland was the first employee at Spectrum Health, and among the first statewide, to receive a dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine. The drug’s distribution kicked off Monday, and is being called the biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history.
“This is really a blessing that this has become available to us so soon,” said McClelland, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at Spectrum Health Butterworth, whose recent work has centered on COVID-19 patients who are “very sick” and on ventilators. “It’s the culmination of hard work by many, many people. Many of the most brilliant minds in
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First COVID-19 vaccine in the state administered at Grand Rapids hospital
Dr. Marc McClelland, who has been treating COVID-19 patients in the ICU, was the first healthcare worker to receive the vaccine in Michigan. Author: Emma Nicolas Updated: 9:09 PM EST December 14, 2020
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan Michigan healthcare workers say it s a day of hope after the first round of COVID-19 vaccines were administered Monday, as the state recorded thousands of new coronavirus cases and dozens of deaths. We see a lot of patients that are critically ill, so I have to say it s taken a toll on our emotions and our own physical being, said Yvette Kamana, a registered nurse who works in the ICU. It s very exciting and I consider it a blessing to be one of the first people to get the vaccine.
First COVID-19 vaccinations administered in Michigan
Two Michigan hospital systems administered the first COVID-19 vaccinations in the state on Monday, injecting the Michigan-produced Pfizer vaccine into front-line workers.
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine and Spectrum Health s Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids were the first to begin vaccinating workers in the state the beginning of a massive inoculation rollout in Michigan expected to expand to other hospital systems in the coming days. It was momentous to see this happen for the first time, Spectrum President and CEO Tina Freese Decker announced at a Monday afternoon press conference.
The Grand Rapids-based health system, which has 14 hospitals in west Michigan, received its first shipment of 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine shortly after 9 a.m. and administered its first vaccination just hours later at 12:04 p.m., Freese Decker said.