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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
St. Mary's Hospital in Jefferson City administered its first shots of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine Tuesday afternoon.
SSM Health, which owns the hospital, accepted its first shipment of the vaccine at 10:30 a.m., inviting reporters and photographers inside to see employees unpack the doses.
Alloch Burton, the Clinical Pharmacy Manager at St. Mary's, said they have extra space in the ultra cold freezer storage if more requests for vaccines are made.
"We have the ability to store more vaccines than we received that's just kind of the nature of the freezer," he said. "We feel it's our duty to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible."