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Joy Henningsen
Dr. Joy Henningsen is a diagnostic radiologist at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
On December 17, she received the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine along with other hospital workers at the Birmingham VA Medical Center.
Henningsen says she eagerly signed up to receive the vaccine as soon as it became available. After a temperature check, she says the injection process went quickly and that she barely felt the shot.
For now, she says her day-to-day behavior will remain the same: avoiding bars or restaurants, wearing masks outside of her home, and practicing good sanitization, until a majority of Americans have also received the vaccine.
Dr. Joy Henningsen works as a diagnostic radiologist at Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on December 17 along with other personnel at the facility. The Birmingham VA Medical Center received some of the first shipments of the vaccine in the U.S.
Henningsen decided to share her story in a first-person article she wrote for
Business Insider because of her experiences interpreting chest and lung images of patients with COVID-19. She noted that while as a radiologist she s not on the front lines in caring for COVID-19 patients, she sees the damage caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus through their images.
Ex-POWs the first vets to get COVID vaccine at Alabama VA hospital
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Birmingham, Alabama Three former prisoners of war were the first veterans to get injections of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Birmingham VA Medical Center Tuesday, reports the CBS affiliate in the city, WIAT-TV. The station says Newton Duke, Norman Hale and Lee Creel are the only three ex-POWs living in the Birmingham area. If there s a hell on Earth, I was there, Duke said as he recalled serving during the Korean War. He was held captive in a Chinese prison camp for 27 months.
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A 94-year-old World War II veteran and prisoner of war rolled up his sleeves on Tuesday and became the first person in Birmingham, Ala., to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Lee Elm Creel told AL.com that the jab “felt about like a flu shot.”
Creel wasn’t the first in the state to receive the shot, but Birmingham’s VA Medical Center was the first in the county to administer the vaccine, according to the news outlet. On Monday, another WWII veteran became the first VA patient to receive the vaccine.