Now, the frontline respiratory therapy team member who treated the Manatee County resident in his 60s is slated to be among the first to receive the first of two doses of the Moderna Vaccine for COVID-19 on Thursday.
“These caregivers will be receiving the vaccine almost 10 months to the day the first patient was diagnosed,” said Monica Yadav, the director of PR and communications for Doctors Hospital. “This is a pretty big deal.”
The first recipients were set to roll up their sleeves at 7 a.m. Thursday in Doctors Hospital’s Medical Office Building, with the hospital’s chief of nursing vaccinating the team.