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Five Baptist Health Lexington employees receive COVID-19 vaccine on Monday
and last updated 2020-12-15 00:55:15-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Five employees of Baptist Health Lexington received the initial dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.
Yuli Vallaran (intensivist), Linda Sherlock (housekeeper), Mark Spanier (Medical Doctor), Sharon Shireman (ED Patient Care Technician) and one other employee received the vaccination early on Monday afternoon.
The five employees received the first dose of the vaccine roughly five hours after the shipment arrived to the hospital s loading dock at 9 a.m.
âThis is truly a historical day, a turning point in the pandemic,â said William G. Sisson, president of Baptist Health Lexington. âWe know the vaccine is vitally important to getting back to normal, in our facilities as well as the communities.â
Louisville Courier Journal
More than nine months after the coronavirus pandemic began, the first people in Kentucky to receive the vaccine were inoculated Monday morning.
A crowd formed at University of Louisville Hospital as health care workers at the facility were the first in the city to receive doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which shipped from Michigan to Louisville and then across the country Sunday. A separate and similar vaccine from Moderna should be made available later this month.
Five hospital workers were vaccinated on stage Monday morning, but that line will get longer in the weeks and months ahead as the vaccine becomes more available to people in Kentucky and the rest of the nation. Questions about the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history, though, are not uncommon, and here are answers to a few of the biggest ones: