O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – Health care workers at a Kansas City hospital will start receiving shots of the coronavirus vaccine Monday, and thousands of other medical workers across Missouri will soon follow.Truman Medical Centers/University Health received its first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday morning and spokeswoman Leslie Carto said the first vaccinations were expected to start by mid-afternoon.
Frontline medical workers such as those who work in emergency rooms and COVID-19 units will be the first to get the vaccine at Truman.
The Pfizer vaccine also is being sent to several other sites across the state. In St. Louis, BJC Health Care spokeswoman Laura High said vaccines will arrive by Tuesday for the first nearly 10,000 of BJC’s 50,000 health care workers. She said those vaccinations will begin this week, but declined to be more specific.
Jackson County completes CARES Act allocation process
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Susan Walsh
and last updated 2020-12-14 17:00:32-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â With a little more than two weeks to spare, the Jackson County Legislature has finished allocating the last of the nearly $122.7 million it received in CARES Act money.
The county offered a final breakdown Monday of the allocations, which had to be expended by Dec. 30 or returned to the U.S. Department of the Treasury based on federal guidelines.
Truman Medical Centers/University Health received $32.4 million to help treat COVID-19 patients and equip clinics, hospitals and staff to handle the pandemic.
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WASHINGTON Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams stressed the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness, while raising issues of social equity.
The officials spoke Monday at a George Washington University Hospital event Monday to launch the vaccination of health care workers in the nation’s capital.
Adams, who is Black, said it would be a tragedy if the disparate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color got worse because of hesitancy to get the vaccine. “We know that lack of trust is a major cause for reluctance, especially in communities of color,” said Adams.
Azar said the vaccines bring hope, but “all of that hope doesn’t matter if we don’t bridge to that point” where widespread vaccination puts and end to the pandemic. So he called on Americans to double down on practicing responsible behaviors such as avoiding travel and gatherings, maintaining social distance, wearing masks and washing their hands frequently.
OKLAHOMA CITY An Oklahoma City emergency room nurse has become the first person in the state to be vaccinated with Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.
Hannah White, 31, laughed before the vaccination and again afterward as she hugged the person who injected her at Integris Baptist Medical Center while showing no reaction as the needle entered her arm.
“I don’t have any burning at the site, I have no pain. I didn’t feel it,” White said, and encouraged others to receive the vaccination as they become eligible based on the state’s four-phase plan.
The first 33,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived Monday in the state, according to state health commissioner Dr. Lance Frye.