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The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at hospitals in Maryland and more are expected later this week. Now those hospitals are reckoning with how to dole out the limited numbers of vaccines to tens of thousands of frontline healthcare workers.
Daisy Solares, a respiratory therapist at the University of Maryland Medical Center, was among the first Maryland residents to receive a COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.
“It felt fine. Good. No pain,” she told reporters immediately after receiving the injection. “Honestly I barely even felt it.”
On Monday, the University of Maryland Medical System, or UMMS, and Johns Hopkins Medicine were among the first healthcare institutions in the country to receive a small number of doses of the highly anticipated vaccine from drugmaker Pfizer.