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UVM Health Network Affiliates and Hospitals Across Vermont Working Quickly to Begin Phased Effort to Vaccinate Health Care Workers
Vermont Business Magazine Today, several frontline staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center were the first Vermonters to receive the approved Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. With the sooner than anticipated arrival of the vaccine in Vermont, UVM Medical Center, its UVM Health Network affiliates, and hospitals across the state are working as quickly as possible to ramp up vaccination clinics ahead of schedule. Initial vaccination efforts will continue in a phased manner for health care workers employed at the hospital and in the community, as well as first responders considered to be at higher risk for exposure.
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MONTPELIER â Vermont Gov. Phil Scott and state Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine hailed the arrival of COVID-19 vaccine doses in the state on Tuesday, but reminded residents to remain vigilant as cases continued to rise and the state finally reached the 100-death plateau.
Scott and Levine announced Tuesday, during the twice-weekly COVID-19 briefing, that the first 1,950 doses of the Pfizer vaccine had arrived in the state on Monday, with half going to the University of Vermont Medical Center and half to the state vaccine depot. Another 1,950 doses arrived late Tuesday morning, Levine said. A third shipment of 1,950 doses will be sent directly to pharmacies under contract with the federal government to deliver doses at long-term care facilities, starting Dec. 21.
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First shipments of COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Vermont
Governor Phil Scott today announced the arrival in Vermont of the first 1,950 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This is the first portion of the 5,850 doses coming to Vermont this week. The State Vaccine Depot and the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington each received 975 doses at approximately 8:00 a.m. today. The doses were sent as part of the initial nationwide shipments that followed the
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