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Virginia s healthcare workers start receiving COVID-19 vaccinations
Virginia s healthcare workers start receiving COVID-19 vaccinations
By: The Associated Press
and last updated 2020-12-16 07:37:42-05
NORFOLK, Va. - Healthcare workers in Virginia started receiving the state s first doses of a coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, kicking off what is likely to be a months long process of inoculating people from the potentially deadly disease.
Nurse Practitioner and Chief Quality Officer Cassie Lewis was the first to receive the shot in the Bon Secours Health System. A little daunting at first, just because the excitement and the buildup has been so much, but honestly, really exciting. I was glad to be the first, said Lewis. Being able to get it and have a lot of my colleagues who are nurses that were down there with us. When I was able to get it and they were right behind me getting it, it was really exciting. And I think all of us are just thrilled that it s final
The first shipments of COVID-19 vaccines arrived Tuesday in Roanoke against the backdrop of a surge in infections and hospitalizations.
Dr. Cynthia Morrow, director of the Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts, said during her weekly media briefing that 1,700 new infections were reported during the past week and that 63 people became so ill they were admitted to a hospital.
âFifteen percent of our cases were reported last week, which is really astonishing to me. Not that itâs unexpected, but nevertheless really disheartening,â she said.
âIt doesnât have to be this way. If everyone did what they needed to do our world would look different right now,â she said. âAs tired as everyone is, as exhausting as this pandemic has been, we donât want to go into the new year in the current positions we are in. I just implore people to do the right thing. Wear your mask, wash your hands, stay physically apart. The vaccine is here. It is being given,
December 16, 2020
DANVILLE, Va. – Healthcare workers in Virginia started receiving the state’s first doses of a coronavirus vaccine Tuesday. The shots that were given on Tuesday kicked off what is likely to be a months-long process of inoculating people from the potentially deadly disease.
In Danville and Martinsville, Sovah Health received its first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine through FedEx. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sheranda Gunn-Nolan at Sovah-Danville received the first injection. The shipment size and distribution process was coordinated by the Virginia Department of Health according to federal guidelines.
The Ballad Health system broadcast live video of registered nurse Emily Boucher getting her first shot in an area of southwestern Virginia. Boucher works at Johnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon. She spoke of COVID-19 patients “who are alone and lonely and scared” and the healthcare workers who sometimes hold up phones to patients’ ears “so they can hear a f
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