COVID-19 vaccine is a ‘blessing,’ says first West Michigan doctor to receive a dose
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
Dr. Marc McClelland, a physician at Spectrum Health, was the Grand Rapids-based health system s first employee to receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (Courtesy Spectrum Health)
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On Monday, at 12:04 p.m., he made good on his pledge.
McClelland was the first employee at Spectrum Health, and among the first statewide, to receive a dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine. The drug’s distribution kicked off Monday, and is being called the biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history.
“This is really a blessing that this has become available to us so soon,” said McClelland, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at Spectrum Health Butterworth, whose recent work has centered on COVID-19 patients who are “very sick” and on ventilators. “It’s the culmination of hard work by many, many people. Many of the most brilliant minds in