Excited and grateful : Coliseum Health Systems staff getting COVID-19 vaccines
As hospitals across the state continue getting their shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine, Coliseum Health Systems announced they will start vaccinating staff. Author: Kayla Solomon Updated: 12:06 AM EST December 24, 2020
MACON, Ga. On Thursday, the day that Coliseum Health Systems CEO Stephen Daugherty has been prepping for is here. Members of his staff will be getting the COVID-19 vaccine. The emergency department, the intensive care unit, and then the in-patient units where we re cohorting COVID positive patients, and then of course the medical staff that would come in contact with them as well, he says.
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