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Dr. Sherrie Williams, a pulmonary critical care specialist at MetroHealth in Cleveland, receives a COVID-19 vaccine in the Rammelkamp Atrium Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Williams was the first MetroHealth employee to receive the vaccine.
Dr. Sherrie Williams, a pulmonary critical care specialist, was the first MetroHealth employee to receive the COVID-19 vaccination on Wednesday. I d be lying if I said I wasn t nervous, Dr. Williams said, minutes before she received the shot.
Despite her initial fears, Williams later said, the vaccine felt like any other shots she has ever received and she felt fine after.
MetroHealth, Cleveland Clinic, and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center received hundreds of doses of the vaccine on Tuesday.
Priority given to patients as Cleveland VA gets first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines
Priority given to patients as Cleveland VA gets first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines By Jim Nelson | December 15, 2020 at 6:33 PM EST - Updated December 15 at 6:33 PM
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center has received nearly 3,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The facility is one of 37 VA hospitals throughout the country to receive the vaccine.
Vaccines arrive at Cleveland VA. Caregivers and long-term resident patients to begin receiving them tomorrow. One of 37 VAs throughout the country getting these in this first wave. pic.twitter.com/C2u4NsKwl9 Jim Nelson (@JimNelsonTV) December 15, 2020
Cleveland Clinic gives first doses of coronavirus vaccine to frontline health care workers Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland Clinic caregivers began receiving a coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, one day after the first doses arrived at the health system’s main campus.
The health system received 975 doses of a vaccine developed by Pfizer and the German biotech company BioNTech in its initial shipment, and expects to administer them by early next week, a Clinic spokeswoman said. All immunizations are occurring at the Clinic’s main campus in Cleveland.
Jennifer Loebick, a registered nurse who works in the ICU at Fairview Hospital, was the first Clinic caregiver to be vaccinated, the health system said.
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