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COVID-19 vaccine: Clinics urge general public to be patient COVID-19 vaccine: Clinics urge general public to be patient By Bernadette Heier | December 23, 2020 at 7:47 PM CST - Updated December 28 at 12:15 PM Minn. (KEYC) - As people who fall under Phase 1a of the vaccine distribution plan in Minnesota begin to be vaccinated, health care officials urge the general public to be patient as hospitals and clinics report receiving numerous calls on wanting to get the COVID-19 vaccine or learn more about it. Phase 1a means the first two groups to get the COVID-19 vaccine are health care worker...

Dec 22, 2020 The Minnesota Department of Health's testing lab handles samples of COVID-19. Courtesy Minnesota Department of Health MANKATO — A new shipment of COVID-19 vaccines is expected to arrive in Minnesota Wednesday, which would pave the way for immunizations to begin at area long-term care residents before the end of the month. Long-term care residents, who’ve accounted for most of the state’s COVID deaths, are in the “1A” group of people being prioritized for the vaccine. Frontline health workers in the Mankato area, also in the...

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Dec 20, 2020 The first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived at New Ulm Medical Center on Tuesday. Kathy Thompson, quality & risk manager; Reid Horning, pharmacy manager; and Charlie Sieberg, pharmacy coordinator, accepted the shipment and stored the vaccine in the sub-zero freezer at the New Ulm Allina Health facility. Courtesy New Ulm Medical Center MANKATO — The first major rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the Mankato area is set to proceed Monday, with health workers at area hospitals receiving vaccinations as soon as that day. Health workers ...

Close Paramedic Aidan Kruckeberg receives the COVID-19 vaccine from Rachel Rosa, a registered nurse with the Mayo Clinic Health System on Dec. 22. The Waseca clinic vaccinated 60 first responders from the first shipment of vaccines. (Photo courtesy of Mayo Clinic Health System)