Louisville Courier Journal
More than nine months after the coronavirus pandemic began, the first people in Kentucky to receive the vaccine were inoculated Monday morning.
A crowd formed at University of Louisville Hospital as health care workers at the facility were the first in the city to receive doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which shipped from Michigan to Louisville and then across the country Sunday. A separate and similar vaccine from Moderna should be made available later this month.
Five hospital workers were vaccinated on stage Monday morning, but that line will get longer in the weeks and months ahead as the vaccine becomes more available to people in Kentucky and the rest of the nation. Questions about the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history, though, are not uncommon, and here are answers to a few of the biggest ones:
Whoâs getting stuck first? Vaccine details still unclear as NC hospitals receive first shipments An Atrium Health employee prepares to administer the first dose of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine in North Carolina on Monday, December 14, 2020. (Source: Atrium Health) By Nick Ochsner | December 15, 2020 at 1:32 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 6:27 PM
Just before noon Monday, Dr. Katie Passaretti stood still while a nurse stuck a needle in her arm and injected a dose of cold liquid.
Then Passaretti, the medical director of infection prevention at Atrium Health in Charlotte, stood in front of a cell phone and made a video.
âSo I just got my first COVID vaccine, the first one at Atrium,â Passeretti, donning clear protective eyeglasses and a teal face mask, told the camera. âIt feels perfectly fine.â
US begins vaccinations against COVID-19 as nationwide death toll edges past 300,000
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Nurse Sandra Lindsay is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester.
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The United States has begun inoculating citizens, marking what it is hoped will be a turning point in the effort to control the deadly virus just as the country s death toll tops 300,000.
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An ICU nurse is the first person in New York to receive the Pfizer vaccine, her jab was livestreamed
The vaccine won emergency-use approval after it was found to be 95 per cent effective
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. History landed in Louisville at 12:06 p.m. Sunday, in the back of a Boeing 757 airliner.
UPS Healthcare President Wes Wheeler called it “pretty magical.” Mayor Greg Fischer deemed it a “historic moment.” As the plane doors lifted, though, one UPS dock worker who watched the plane land had a more muted reaction The bird is here.
Now, it was time to start unloading the first U.S. shipment of coronavirus vaccines.
The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged Kentucky and the rest of the nation for nine months, shuttering schools, restaurants and businesses and claiming nearly 300,000 lives. And while Sunday was a moment of hope, there was no time to celebrate the vaccines that landed at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport would be shipped out later that day to other states across the eastern U.S., and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said some in the Bluegrass State could be inoculated as early as Monday morning.