Front line healthcare workers at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth receive COVID-19 vaccine
Chelsea Donovan
and last updated 2020-12-16 16:53:07-05
PORTSMOUTH, Va. - The first and finest at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth received some of the first COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday. It was great, not painful at all, said Meghan Harring, an OB/GYN resident.
It took less than a minute for Harring to receive the vaccine.
The military treatment facility received thousands of units of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday, to be first given to front line healthcare workers. This feels really good, because I ve been one of the doctors treating patients in the hospital and this is finally the light at the end of the tunnel we ve been looking for, said Dr. Karl Kronmann, an infectious disease specialist.
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Health officials said Alabama is ready to move once the first coronavirus vaccine receives official approval.
“Once those recommendations come, we will be ready to get shots in the arms that day or the next day,” State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris said.