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Mobile hospitals see first COVID vaccines: ‘A chance for life’
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
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It should come as no surprise that Kristina Blake would get emotional after she was among the first in Alabama on Tuesday to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at University Hospital in Mobile.
The 54-year-old Mobile resident who has worked for three decades at USA Health, was fighting for her life about five months ago after contracting COVID-19 in early July and spending two weeks hospitalized. For nine of those days, she was in the ICU. She spent 11 weeks out of work recovering at home.
“It’s been very emotional for me today,” said Blake, after receiving the injection in her right shoulder. “This is a chance for life for me. I have been living in fear of catching it again.”
Five Mobile County hospitals to get Pfizer vaccine this week
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
USA Health CEO Owen Bailey speaks during a ribbon cutting ceremony on a new $20 million Level 1 trauma center on Friday, December 11, 2020, at University Hospital in Mobile, Ala. (John Sharp/jsharp@al.com).
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The hospitals will give the initial doses to frontline healthcare workers
Dr. Scott Chavers, an epidemiologist with the Mobile County Health Department, told AL.com on Friday that Mobile Infirmary, University Hospital, USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital, Providence Hospital and Springhill Medical Center are on the state’s initial distribution lists.