UK HealthCare Pharmacy Supply Chain Director Jonathan Labuhn and Associate Pharmacy Director Robert Rose open the first box of the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday December 15, 2020
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After receiving the Pfizer vaccine shipment on Tuesday morning at UK Chandler Hospital, five emergency department employees were the first to receive the vaccine about four hours later. In about a week, 1,950 front-line health care workers who either take care of COVID-19 patients or who are exposed to patients being ruled out for the virus, will receive the first dose of the two-dose vaccine.
UK HealthCare s allotment of the vaccine is among nearly 12,000 doses available in this week’s initial rollout for Kentucky’s health care workers.
UK doctor among the first to get vaccinated
Posted at 10:47 PM, Dec 17, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-17 22:47:10-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â On Tuesday, the University of Kentucky Hospital began vaccinating their employees.
Dr. Charles Eckerline was one of the first doctors to receive the vaccine. Since then, hundreds of other medical professionals have been vaccinated.
In a few weeks, he will receive the booster dose, and until then he won t have immunity. He will continue to take the appropriate steps to protect himself and his patients but says this is a pivotal moment in Kentucky s fight against the virus. Hopefully, as we get more people immunized, particularly people who are high risk we will begin to open things up a bit and hopefully get back to normal by the spring, Dr. Eckerline said.
UK Healthcare receives 1,950 doses of COVID-19 vaccine as part of rollout to frontline workers
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Robert Rose, right, Associate Director of Pharmacy Supply Chain at UK HealthCare, and Jonathan Labuhn, Director of Pharmacy Services unbox the vaccine as the University of Kentucky received its first shipment of Covid-19 vaccine on December 15, 2020. Photo by Mark Cornelison | UKphoto
and last updated 2020-12-15 17:02:28-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â The first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine made its way to UK Healthcare Tuesday as the state moves one step closer to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UK HealthCare received 1,950 doses of the vaccine, which were among nearly 12,000 doses available in this week s initial rollout for Kentucky s health care workers.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 16, 2020) After receiving the Pfizer vaccine shipment on Tuesday morning at UK Chandler Hospital, five emergency department employees were the first to receive the vaccine about four hours later. In about a week, 1,950 front-line health care workers who either take care of COVID-19 patients or who are exposed to patients being ruled out for the virus, will receive the first dose of the two-dose vaccine.
UK HealthCare s allotment of the vaccine is among nearly 12,000 doses available in this week’s initial rollout for Kentucky’s health care workers.
This comes after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an emergency use authorization (EUA) Dec. 11 for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, making it the first-ever approved vaccine ready to administer in the fight against COVID-19.
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