UMass Memorial Health Care administers first COVID vaccine to emergency room nurse Emily Palumbo in Clinton
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
UMass Memorial Health administered its first coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, providing it to an emergency room nurse at a hospital in Clinton.
The health care provided shared a number of photos on Twitter of ER nurse Emily Palumbo at UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital receiving the vaccine.
ER Nurse Emily Palumbo was the first caregiver at UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.@umassmemorialpic.twitter.com/qQMeKZh4Si UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital (@haclintonhosp) December 16, 2020
UMass Memorial in Worcester received Pfizer’s vaccine at around 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Vaccinations at that facility are expected to begin on Thursday.