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JANESVILLE, Wis. Mercyhealth started vaccinating its frontline workers Tuesday afternoon, just hours after receiving its first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The Janesville-based health care provider received 1,950 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine, 375 of which were delivered to Mercyhealth Hospital and Medical Center-Walworth.
Nursing teams began vaccinating employees at 2:30 p.m. and plan to continue administering vaccines for the next few days, according to a news release. As of 8 p.m., 478 employees had been vaccinated, according to a team spokesperson.
Dr. Imdad Ahmed, an electrophysiologist at Mercyhealth, was the first one to get vaccinated at the hospital.
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