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Officials at Baptist Health Corbin announced Tuesday that the Pfizer COVID–19 vaccine  has arrived on site. The hospital was one of 11 across Kentucky that Gov. Andy Beshear announced would be recipients of the initial shipment as part of the effort to immunize frontline healthcare workers. The shipment contained 975 doses of the vaccine, which will be offered to the employees, with vaccinations to begin today “No one will be forced to take it,” said Debbie Hardin, Marketing Director at the hospital. With 1,174 employees at the hospital, Hardin said frontline workers will have priority...

COVID-19 vaccinations are now underway for employees at Baptist Health Corbin, which was one of the first 11 hospital in Kentucky to receive the vaccine and administer the first shipments of the vaccine. Baptist Health Corbin CEO Anthony Powers gives the thumbs up as he prepared to get his COVID-19 vaccination Wednesday morning. “Our first group of employees to receive doses of a vaccine to protect against the COVID-19 (virus) included members of the housekeeping staff, physicians, nurses, our chief medical officer, our chief nursing officer, president and a patient educator,” Baptist Hea...

On Monday, Gov. Andy Beshear celebrated that COVID-19 vaccinations have begun in the commonwealth. The Governor watched as five doctors and nurses from UofL Health first received the vaccine this morning. Soon after, other health care workers from UofL Health, Baptist Health Lexington and the Medical Center at Bowling Green began receiving inoculations. To learn more, see the full release and these photos (credit: Scotty Perry/Bloomberg) and video (credit: UofL Health). “Today is the most exciting day that I’ve had, I think that we as a commonwealth have had, since March 6, when we ...