Updated December 14, 2020 8:10 p.m. EST
By Amanda Lamb, Kacey Cunningham and Julain Grace, WRAL reporters
Durham, N.C. Some health care workers across North Carolina received their first dose of coronavirus vaccine Monday after the initial shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech s vaccine arrived at nearly a dozen hospitals across the state.
Charlotte-based Atrium Health was the first to administer the vaccine in the state, with Dr. Katie Passaretti, the system s medical director of infection prevention, getting the first shot. More than a dozen of her co-workers were expected to be vaccinated by the end of the day.
Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem was actually the first hospital in North Carolina to receive the vaccine from UPS early Monday, and workers started getting vaccinated there Monday afternoon.
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