Dec 15, 2020
Allison Wynes, a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) nurse practitioner, does a Facebook live to her friends announcing she had received one of the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, on the 12th floor of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children s Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. (Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP)
IOWA CITY– A small group of health care workers became the first people in Iowa to get the coronavirus vaccine Monday, kicking off a months-long campaign to deliver shots throughout the state.
The arrival of the vaccine marked a milestone in the fight against a virus that has killed roughly one out of every 964 people in Iowa, infected hundreds of thousands more, filled up hospitals and closed many public school buildings.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) A small group of health care workers became the first people in Iowa to get the coronavirus vaccine Monday, kicking off a months-long campaign to deliver shots throughout the state.
The arrival of the vaccine marked a milestone in the fight against a virus that has killed roughly one out of every 964 people in Iowa, infected hundreds of thousands more, filled up hospitals and closed many public school buildings.
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics said on Monday morning that it received 1,000 doses of the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech. The hospital soon started vaccinating employees, saying it anticipated about 100 would receive the first of two doses of the vaccine on Monday.
COVID-19 Vaccines Have Arrived in Iowa, Immunizations Underway
At 9:20 a.m. this morning, CNN reports a woman named Sandra Lindsay received a COVID-19 vaccine on live video from the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York City. An ICU nurse, Lindsay is one of the first known people to have received the vaccination. I m also happy to report the vaccines have begun to be administered in the state of Iowa.
Both the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City and UnityPoint Health in Des Moines received their first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday morning and have begun immunizations.