UMass Memorial providers receive first COVID shots at UMMS
Recipients see hope for ‘beginning of the end’ of pandemic By Susan E.W. Spencer and Bryan Goodchild
UMass Medical School Communications December 17, 2020
The word on everyone’s lips was “excited” as the first UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus health care providers rolled up their sleeves Dec. 17 to receive their inoculation with the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. They will return in three weeks for their second dose.
Leading the line in the UMass Medical School lobby at 11 a.m. was Fredrik Oestberg, RN, MSN, nurse education safety specialist for the medical intensive care unit at UMass Memorial University Campus. He didn’t flinch, barely noticing the needle prick as a nurse injected the vaccine.