O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – Health care workers at a Kansas City hospital will start receiving shots of the coronavirus vaccine Monday, and thousands of other medical workers across Missouri will soon follow.Truman Medical Centers/University Health received its first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday morning and spokeswoman Leslie Carto said the first vaccinations were expected to start by mid-afternoon.
Frontline medical workers such as those who work in emergency rooms and COVID-19 units will be the first to get the vaccine at Truman.
The Pfizer vaccine also is being sent to several other sites across the state. In St. Louis, BJC Health Care spokeswoman Laura High said vaccines will arrive by Tuesday for the first nearly 10,000 of BJC’s 50,000 health care workers. She said those vaccinations will begin this week, but declined to be more specific.
Health care workers in Missouri get coronavirus vaccine
By JIM SALTERDecember 15, 2020 GMT
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) Health care workers in both of Missouri’s urban areas received doses of the coronavirus vaccine Monday afternoon the first people in the state outside of clinical trial participants to be vaccinated.
Thousands of other medical workers across the state will soon follow now that vaccinations have begun at Truman Medical Centers/University Health in Kansas City, Missouri, and at the Mercy hospital system in the St. Louis area.
Frontline medical workers such as those who work in emergency rooms and COVID-19 units were the first to get the vaccine at Truman.
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page announced Monday he will extend a stay-at-home advisory, indoor dining ban, gathering ban and broader mask mandate for another two weeks beyond its original Dec. 15 deadline to try to stabilize the surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Under the continuation of the “Safer at Home Order,” St. Louis County residents will be encouraged through the end of the year to stay home and only leave to go to work, school, medical care, grocery shopping and other essential activities in the modified stay-at-home order.
Page noted when he announced the extension of the advisory Monday that after reaching record-setting levels, hospitalizations had plateaued for about three or four days. While it was too soon to see if that was a trend, he said the numbers are still too high and need to come down.
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