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SOUTHFIELD â Minutes after he was injected with Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Chadi Ibrahim said he felt like he won the lottery.
Honestly, luck had nothing to do with it. Ibrahim directs the COVID-19 unit at Troy Beaumont. He earned the honor.
âWeâve been knee-deep in it since the beginning,ââ Ibrahim said.
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The physician was chosen as one of the first 130 Beaumont Health employees to be vaccinated on Tuesday. It was a historic moment.
Dr. Chadi Ibrahim, director of the COVID-19 unit at Troy Beaumont, receives the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday at the Beaumont Service Center in Southfield.Â
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Beaumont employees join ranks of vaccinated frontline workers
For Dr. Nick Gilpin, the director of epidemiology and infection prevention at Beaumont Health System, getting the vaccine Tuesday was the shot in the arm he needed to help combat COVID-19.
Gilpin along with more than a dozen other health care workers were included in a high priority group to receive the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday at the Beaumont Service Center in Southfield.
Those who had direct or indirect exposure to patients with COVID-19 were considered first. We ve all submitted lists of those frontline workers . so we re going to go through those lists until everybody is hit, said Gilpin who was the first to be vaccinated. Our goal overall is to get all of our health care providers vaccinated within about four to six weeks. It s an aggressive timeline, but we think we can make it work.