Medical professionals on the frontlines were some of the first to get inoculated for COVID-19 in Springfield last week. St. John s was designated by the state as the regional coordinating center for Region Three in west-central Illinois. The first doses were given Dec. 16. St. John’s received a shipment of vaccines to distribute to several hospitals, including ones in Jacksonville and Taylorville. Sangamon County was given an initial allotment of 705 dosages from the state, according to an email from the governor s office to reporters on Dec. 17. St. John s and the capital city s other major hospital, Memorial Medical Center, split the dosages.
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HSHS St. John’s Hospital intensive-care unit nurse SallyAnn Tamizuddin felt a wave of relief Wednesday after she and a St. John’s ICU doctor became the first two people in Sangamon County to receive COVID-19 vaccines.
“I just will be a lot more relaxed,” said Tamizuddin, 57, a nurse at the Springfield hospital for eight years. Of COVID-19, she said, “It won’t be able to touch me. It won’t be able to get to me.”
Tamizuddin and Dr. Prashant Jagtap, medical director of St. John’s ICUs, were vaccinated at the same time, receiving the first of the two-dose regimen from the Pfizer vaccine supply that St. John’s received earlier in the day. The first and second doses are given a minimum of three weeks apart.