S7HD receives first COVID-19 vaccine shipment
S7HD receives first COVID-19 vaccine shipment By Ashley Smith | December 17, 2020 at 3:43 PM CST - Updated December 17 at 10:18 PM
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. (KFVS) - The Southern Seven Health Department has receive their first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
The 160 doses were received by health department staff and taken to a local healthcare provider.
Frontline healthcare workers at that facility are expected to receive their first COVID-19 vaccinations beginning Dec. 17.
“The arrival of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is an important step in the fight against this pandemic in the Southern Seven region,” said Teresa Wilburn, Director of Nursing for Southern Seven Health Department. “I’m proud to have been a small part of the process in the delivery to one of our hardest hit counties. Frontline workers will be some of the first people to receive the vaccine and I’m looking forward to the months ahead
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United, like other airlines, has been scrambling to find ways to both combat COVID-19 and get people flying again, including working with governments in the U.S. and elsewhere to come up with testing procedures that would help slow the spread of the pandemic and eliminate the need for travel bans. The industry’s revenue is expected to be down more than 60 percent for the year, and airlines such as United have been losing tens of millions of dollars a day.
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