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Jennifer Cochrane, a Public Health Nurse with Prairie Mountain Health in Virden, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Robert Farquhar with Westman Regional Laboratory, during the first day of immunizations at the Brandon COVID-19 vaccination supersite at the Keystone Centre on Monday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun/POOL)
BRANDON Despite a glitch in text messaging for the Brandon vaccination “super site” appointments, its first COVID -19 vaccinations took place as planned Monday morning.
BRANDON Despite a glitch in text messaging for the Brandon vaccination super site appointments, its first COVID -19 vaccinations took place as planned Monday morning.
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Jennifer Cochrane, a Public Health nurse with Prairie Mountain Health in Virden, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Joanna Robb, the first person in line during the first day of immunizations at the COVID-19 vaccination supersite at the Keystone Centre on Monday.
Despite a glitch in text messaging for the Brandon vaccination site, COVID -19 vaccinations took place as planned Monday morning.
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Despite a glitch in text messaging for the Brandon vaccination site, COVID -19 vaccinations took place as planned Monday morning.
Joanna Robb, who works at Shared Health’s Westman Regional Laboratory, was the first to be vaccinated yesterday morning. Kirsten Boyce, Robb’s co-worker, was the second. They booked their appointments without issue early last week. Both say no one in their workplace had any issues with booking their appointments.
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 9:54 AM CT | Last Updated: January 18
Joanna Robb, left, was first in line for a COVID-19 vaccination at the Brandon supersite on Monday.(Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun/Pool)
The first COVID-19 vaccine has been given at Brandon s new vaccine supersite. This is a little bit of a surprise, said Joanna Robb, who didn t expect to be first in line.
Robb is a cytotechnologist who works at Shared Health s Westman Lab, which deals with COVID-19 specimens, making her eligible for the vaccine. There s a worldwide pandemic, and every day I sit at work listening to it, usually the CBC, to the updates, and you hear the death tolls every day and the numbers, and it s heartbreaking, Robb said. And we can do something.
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Jennifer Cochrane, a Public Health Nurse with Prairie Mountain Health in Virden, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Joanna Robb, the first person in line during the first day of immunizations at the Brandon COVID-19 vaccination supersite at the Keystone Centre on Monday.
Brandon’s COVID-19 immunization “super-site” officially opened its doors earlier this morning, with the injections taking place at the Keystone Centre.
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Brandon’s COVID-19 immunization super-site officially opened its doors earlier this morning, with the injections taking place at the Keystone Centre.
Some of the first people to receive the COVID vaccination at this location included Brandon healthcare workers, who work at Shared Health’s Westman Lab and are particularly vulnerable to the virus given the nature of their employment.