Hospitals give 1st COVID-19 vaccines in Crow Wing Health care workers were identified as first priority in Phase 1a of vaccine distribution, per the Minnesota Department of Health allocation guidelines.
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Dr. Greg Davis, a pulmonologist, receives the first COVID-19 vaccination in the Brainerd lakes area Monday, Dec. 20, at Essentia Health-St. Joseph s Medical Center in Brainerd. Submitted photo
Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, is a day history was made in Crow Wing County the two hospital systems administered their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health care workers at both Essentia Health-St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd and Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby received vaccinations Monday. Receiving the first vaccine early Monday morning was Essentia’s Dr. Greg Davis, pulmonologist. Davis was expected to be followed by more than 110 other frontline workers at Essentia on Monday, according to a news release.
Hospitals give 1st COVID-19 vaccines in Crow Wing Health care workers were identified as first priority in Phase 1a of vaccine distribution, per the Minnesota Department of Health allocation guidelines.
Written By:
Brainerd Dispatch | ×
Dr. Greg Davis, a pulmonologist, receives the first COVID-19 vaccination in the Brainerd lakes area Monday, Dec. 20, at Essentia Health-St. Joseph s Medical Center in Brainerd. Submitted photo
Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, is a day history was made in Crow Wing County the two hospital systems administered their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health care workers at both Essentia Health-St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd and Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby received vaccinations Monday. Receiving the first vaccine early Monday morning was Essentia’s Dr. Greg Davis, pulmonologist. Davis was expected to be followed by more than 110 other frontline workers at Essentia on Monday, according to a news release.
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While this coronavirus is novel and the vaccines developed to tame it are new, preparations underway by county public health staff are anything but.
“It’s just a different virus than the other ones that we’ve already worked with,” said Michelle Moritz, public health supervisor with Crow Wing County, during a Thursday, Dec. 10 interview. “… Fortunately, it’s something that we have spent the last 20-some years preparing for as we have had people much smarter than me telling us that this was coming. So I know it’s been at least 16 years that I’ve worked on pandemic preparedness and in 20 years of working for public health, it’s something that we’ve talked about since Day One.”
While this coronavirus is novel and the vaccines developed to tame it are new, preparations underway by county public health staff are anything but.
“It’s just a different virus than the other ones that we’ve already worked with,” said Michelle Moritz, public health supervisor with Crow Wing County, during a Thursday, Dec. 10 interview. “… Fortunately, it’s something that we have spent the last 20-some years preparing for as we have had people much smarter than me telling us that this was coming. So I know it’s been at least 16 years that I’ve worked on pandemic preparedness and in 20 years of working for public health, it’s something that we’ve talked about since Day One.”