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The COVID-19 vaccine is being distributed throughout the area. This week, the Washington County Health Department received their first doses while hospitals in Iron County and Madison County also received doses. “We are pleased to announce that (Tuesday) we began to vaccinate patient-facing healthcare workers for COVID-19,” the Washington County Health Department announced on Facebook. “We are so thankful to be able to help protect those dedicated to caring for others. At this time, the vaccine is not available to the general public, but we will announce when it is.” Iron ...

About every 10 minutes during the work day, a healthcare worker at Parkland Health Center is getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Parkland received doses of the Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday and started vaccinating frontline workers on Thursday. Vaccinations continued on Friday and will continue today and next week. With a time slot every 10 minutes from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., that’s been about 50 vaccinations per day. There are about 500 staff members, Parkland Medical Director Dr. Scott Kirkley said, and they received almost enough in this first shipment to vaccinate everyone who signed up for it. Kir...

Parkland Health Center hopes to start giving its healthcare workers the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the week, according to Parkland Medical Director Dr. Scott Kirkley. BJC HealthCare in St. Louis is expecting the first doses of Pfizer’s vaccine to arrive at its ultra-cold storage on Tuesday, he said. BJC is offering the vaccine to all employees. “So our oldest of healthcare workers that are patient-facing will have first option,” Kirkley said. “We'll get the vaccine as early as starting on Thursday.” This means anyone working directly with patients will be first pr...