Methodist Dallas Medical Center among first 4 sites in Texas to get COVID-19 vaccine Monday
The hospital will begin immunizations for health care workers and other staff members who interact with coronavirus patients once the shipment arrives.
Methodist Dallas Medical Center, pictured in this file photo, will be among the first in Texas to get COVID-19 vaccine shipments Monday.(David Woo / Staff Photographer)
revised to include a statement from UT Southwestern Medical Center representative.
A Dallas hospital will be among the first four sites in Texas to get shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday.
Methodist Dallas Medical Center will begin immunizations for health care workers and other staff members who interact with COVID-19 patients once the shipment arrives, said Pam Stoyanoff, president and chief operating officer of Methodist Health System.
First US COVID-19 vaccinations given as shipments arrive nationwide
By Lauran Neergaard
First COVID-19 vaccine given to New York nurse
A New York nurse is believed to be the first U.S. health care worker to receive the coronavirus vaccine as the rollout begins nationwide.
NEW YORK - Health care workers around the country rolled up their sleeves for the first COVID-19 shots Monday as hope that an all-out vaccination effort can defeat the coronavirus smacked up against the heartbreaking reality of 300,000 U.S. deaths.
“Relieved,” proclaimed critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay after becoming one of the first to be inoculated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. “I feel like healing is coming.”
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A New York City nurse became the first person in the state to receive Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.
Sandra Lindsay was given the injection at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens as part of a widespread effort to immunize health care workers and nursing home residents.
Hospital workers begin unloading precious frozen vials of COVID-19 vaccine Monday morning, with the first vaccinations against a scourge that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans expected later in the day.
“It feels like the cavalry is arriving,” Robert C. Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health, said as New Jersey’s largest health network awaited delivery.