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On Monday, Gov. Andy Beshear celebrated that COVID-19 vaccinations have begun in the commonwealth.
The Governor watched as five doctors and nurses from UofL Health first received the vaccine this morning. Soon after, other health care workers from UofL Health, Baptist Health Lexington and the Medical Center at Bowling Green began receiving inoculations. To learn more, see the full release and these photos (credit: Scotty Perry/Bloomberg) and video (credit: UofL Health).
âToday is the most exciting day that Iâve had, I think that we as a commonwealth have had, since March 6, when we had our first diagnosed COVID case,â said Gov. Beshear. âToday marks the beginning of the end of COVID-19. We are going to defeat this virus in 2021. This is a moment that we have hoped for and prayed for. The effectiveness of this Pfizer vaccine and the Moderna vaccine thatâs going to follow is nothing short of a modern medical miracle.
Louisville Courier Journal
More than nine months after the coronavirus pandemic began, the first people in Kentucky to receive the vaccine were inoculated Monday morning.
A crowd formed at University of Louisville Hospital as health care workers at the facility were the first in the city to receive doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which shipped from Michigan to Louisville and then across the country Sunday. A separate and similar vaccine from Moderna should be made available later this month.
Five hospital workers were vaccinated on stage Monday morning, but that line will get longer in the weeks and months ahead as the vaccine becomes more available to people in Kentucky and the rest of the nation. Questions about the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history, though, are not uncommon, and here are answers to a few of the biggest ones:
featured Health officials encourage Kentuckians without symptoms to get coronavirus tests at testing sites, not hospital emergency rooms
By Melissa Patrick
Kentucky Health News Dec 14, 2020
Dec 14, 2020
Lexington health officials are imploring Kentuckians without Covid-19 symptoms who want or need to get tested for the coronavirus to go to a testing site, and not the busy emergency departments of local hospitals.Â
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âIf your question is, âDo I have Covid?â there are many, many options better than our emergency departments to get that question answered,â Dr. Roger Humphries, chair of emergency medicine atÂ
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Walz says she wanted to do her part. I ve seen a lot of people suffer and die from COVID-19 and I d like to do whatever we can to slow that process and to be an example for others to show that the vaccine is safe and worth getting.
“I’ve seen a lot of people this year suffer and die from COVID-19, and I’d like to do whatever we can to slow that process.” Katie Walz, RN in the cardiovascular ICU at UC Medical Center, our first recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine. https://t.co/T5D6IfgENMpic.twitter.com/abHgJuWyO5