Dec 15, 2020
(AP) 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.”
With a countdown of “3-2-1,” workers at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center gave initial injections to applause.
And in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis personally opened a delivery door to the FedEx driver and signed for a package holding 975 precious frozen doses of vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech.
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OhioHealth vaccinates its first frontline workers for COVID-19
received their first coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday.
OhioHealth s Riverside Methodist Hospital administered its first two doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine around 8 a.m. The first two shots of the roughly 30 to 40 vaccinations were doled out on a stage of a hospital auditorium and met with a round of applause from health care workers looking on.
Wednesday s shots marked the beginning of what is likely to be one of the largest vaccination campaigns in history. OhioHealth is planning to offer the vaccine to workers at each of its hospitals as more doses become available, president and CEO Stephen E. Markovich said.
‘It was truly a moment of hope:’ First medical professionals in Ohio vaccinated against coronavirus Kristen Spicker
Medical professionals across Ohio are beginning to receive coronavirus vaccines, Gov. Mike DeWine said.
“We started the process of vaccinating them against this terrible disease,” DeWine said. “It was truly a moment of hope. The way I look at it, every day somewhere in the state of Ohio someone will be getting vaccinated, they’ll be getting the opportunity not to get COVID-19.”
The first month, Ohio is expected to receive about 660,000 doses of the vaccine and is expected to receive the same amount in about a month. DeWine said he expects herd immunity will take a long time. He didn’t offer a date for when the vaccine would be available for the general public.
By: CBS News
As COVID hospitalizations are surging around the country, health care workers are feeling even more physical and emotional stress.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is trying a unique way to relieve some of that strain.
Nine months into the pandemic and with the next wave overwhelming hospitals, therapist and associate professor Dr. Kenneth Yeager said health care workers are simply fatigued.
“We re having both physical exhaustion, and we re having emotional exhaustion. That s the big challenge. When, emotionally, you are giving so much of yourself, that it is really difficult to find energy to keep moving forward,” he said.