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Thursday, December 17, 2020
41% of the vaccines distributed to the Memorial Medical System in Central Illinois were administered within 24 hours, according to officials with the medical system.
Memorial Medical Center received 1,600 doses in the first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine. As of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, 150 employees at Memorial Medical Center have received the vaccine, 270 doses have gone out to employees at Decatur Memorial Hospital, Passavant hospital in Jacksonville has given a vaccine out to 240 employees. Taylorville Memorial Hospital will start vaccines on Friday.
The first employees vaccinated are the ones who are administering the vaccine to other hospital employees.
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Passavant receives its first 440 vaccines
Darren Iozia, darren.iozia@myjournalcourier.com
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Passavant Area Hospital received 440 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday afternoon and is ready to administer them to staff starting as early as today.
“This is quite the historic day in our history,” Jennifer Harris, Memorial Health Systems planning section chief, said Wednesday during a new conference. “We just received our shipment about an hour ago.”
The doses arrived thawed, giving the hospital five days in which to administer them.
“It has to be used up within one hour of being drawn from the vial,” Harris said, adding that one vial of the Pfizer vaccine contains five doses.
COVID-19 vaccines headed to hospitals
Rochelle Eiselt, Journal-Courier
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Passavant Area Hospital is expected to receive 440 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.Javier Zayas Photography
County health departments soon will provide the COVID-19 vaccine to Memorial Health System hospitals to administer to health care workers.
Memorial is expecting the vaccine to arrive this week, said Michael Leathers, media relations consultant for Memorial Medical Center. That still could change, though, he said.
As of Monday, Memorial Medical Center was expected to receive 350 doses of the vaccine, while Passavant Area Hospital was expected to receive 440, numbers that remained unchanged on Tuesday, Leathers said.
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to rage Tuesday in Illinois as health-care workers in Chicago and Peoria began to receive the state s first doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine apparently hasn’t arrived in Springfield yet, but officials at Memorial Medical Center and HSHS St. John’s Hospital were hopeful inoculations of their health care workers could begin later this week.
The Illinois Department of Public Health on Tuesday reported 117 additional COVID-19-related deaths and 7,359 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases.
The IDPH said Illinois has recorded a total of 863,477 positive cases, including 14,509 deaths.
It was unclear how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine – the first to receive federal approval – St. John’s would receive for its frontline workers this week.