Healthcare workers across the Central Coast have stepped up and cared for COVID-19 patients under difficult circumstances. Those we spoke to say with a vaccine now here, hope is on the horizon.
Twin Cities Community Hospital ER nurse Sam Sams said it’s been physically and mentally exhausting to be working in healthcare as the pandemic continues.
“It’s very disheartening when you have members of the public telling you this is all a hoax, when just my shift previously I had to tell someone that their mother has died because of COVID, said Sams.
Sams is one of the frontline workers to receive the Pfizer vaccine.
Hospital workers and emergency responders across San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa Barbara counties got their first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during the week of Dec. 14. A shipment of 1,950 doses arrived at the SLO County Public Health Department on Dec. 16, and two days later, the county vaccinated its first five residents, including Marla Howard, a hemodialysis nurse at Davita Dialysis Centers and a Morro Bay resident. click to enlarge Photo By Jayson Mellom
AMONG THE FIRST Dr. Trees Ritter, an infectious disease specialist with Dignity Health, was among the first Central Coast health care workers to receive a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 17. He said after, I honestly didn t even feel it.
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Marian Regional Medical Center frontline staff receives coronavirus vaccine
December 17, 2020
Nurse Candice Monge administers coronavirus vaccine Dr. Trees Ritter
An infectious disease specialist at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria was the first of many physicians, nurses, and frontline support staff on the Central Coast to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Chief Nursing Officer Candice Monge administered the vaccine to Dr. Trees Ritter on Thursday.
The first dose of the two-dose vaccine was administered to high-risk health care staff today. In total, several hundred Dignity Health Central Coast employees are scheduled to receive this first round.
Two doses of the vaccine in persons aged 16 years and older are necessary for the vaccine to be effective.
Santa Maria, Lompoc Medical Centers Welcome First Arrivals of COVID-19 Vaccine
Frontline health care workers receive their initial doses amid a festive atmosphere signaling a turning point in the pandemic
As colleagues capture the moment, Dr. Lisa Ryan raises her arms in celebration after receiving the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday afternoon in a tent set up in a parking lot at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo) By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
December 17, 2020
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Cheers, applause and even chants of “shot, shot, shot” marked the delivery of the first COVID-19 vaccines amid a festive atmosphere Thursday in a parking lot at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria.