‘Feeling good as hell’: Boston Medical Center channels Lizzo to celebrate arrival of COVID vaccines
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
With each arrival of the coronavirus vaccine to hospitals around the country, a sense of joy can be felt through video, pictures and social media posts by the health care facilities.
On Monday evening, Boston Medical Center used singer Lizzo to capture the emotions stirred after it received the vaccine.
Kate Walsh, the president and CEO of Boston Medical Center, shared a TikTok of employees dancing outside to Lizzo’s “Feeling Good as Hell” to commemorate the arrival of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar provides insight into the historic coronavirus vaccine rollout on ‘Fox and Friends.’
A 94-year-old World War II veteran and prisoner of war rolled up his sleeves on Tuesday and became the first person in Birmingham, Ala., to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Lee Elm Creel told AL.com that the jab “felt about like a flu shot.”
Creel wasn’t the first in the state to receive the shot, but Birmingham’s VA Medical Center was the first in the county to administer the vaccine, according to the news outlet. On Monday, another WWII veteran became the first VA patient to receive the vaccine.
Updated: 4:32 AM PST Dec 16, 2020 Less than three days after the first COVID-19 vaccine received government authorization, a World War II veteran in Massachusetts became the first Veterans Affairs patient in the country to get the shot.The VA Bedford Healthcare System s shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived Monday morning and the facility began to administer doses within a few hours.Margaret Klessens, a 96-year-old resident of the Community Living Center in the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, received the shot Monday at 12:07 p.m., the VA Bedford Healthcare System announced in a statement.She said she was pleasantly surprised to be able to get the shot so soon. Hear more about Klessens experience in the video above.Thirteen minutes later, Andrew Miller, a housekeeper in the environmental management services became the first employee to get the jab.
Dec 15, 2020
(AP) Health care workers around the country rolled up their sleeves for the first COVID-19 shots Monday as hope that an all-out vaccination effort can defeat the coronavirus smacked up against the heartbreaking reality of 300,000 U.S. deaths.
“Relieved,” proclaimed critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay after becoming one of the first to be inoculated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. “I feel like healing is coming.”
With a countdown of “3-2-1,” workers at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center gave initial injections to applause.
And in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis personally opened a delivery door to the FedEx driver and signed for a package holding 975 precious frozen doses of vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech.
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