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Louisiana’s healthcare workers became the first group of people in the state to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday morning as the state begins what will likely be a months-long vaccination process.
“It is a great day. It s a day that we have been preparing for planning for and praying for, for about nine months now,” Governor John Bel Edwards said at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans Monday morning.
“And of course this is the beginning of the end. We are not at the end yet. But it is such a blessing to have the vaccine in the state of Louisiana.”
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Thousands of frontline health care workers in Louisiana are anxiously awaiting the first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine this weekend as the state’s initial allocation is expected to be delivered in the next few days, pending FDA approval.
Ochsner Health System is expecting to be able to vaccinate thousands of its frontline health care workers across the state by Monday, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Robert Hart said, with distribution hubs stationed in New Orleans, Shreveport and Lafayette.
Those hubs are prepared to share an initial shipment of 9,375 doses of pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, if the federal Food and Drug Administration grants it emergency use authorization in the next few days.
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We always encourage you to should shop local. Shopping local helps businesses in our community thrive. When you purchase at locally owned businesses rather than nationally owned, more money is kept in the community because locally-owned businesses often purchase from other local businesses and service providers. Local business also donate to local charities which in turn keeps our money circulating by helping the community in which we live. Charlotte Cryer, owner of Caroline & Co., is a very successful local business woman. She started her business in September of 1997 and is still going strong in her new location in River Ranch. She also has another location which is the gift shop in Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center. She and her daughter, Caroline, make sure to always carry a great selection of local product. So when you shop at Caroline & Co. you not only shop local, but you can also purchase Louisiana ma