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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams encouraged all patients to take the vaccine, and he urged local officials to ensure doses are distributed in an equitable manner.
A group of five health care workers at the GW Hospital became the first to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in D.C. Monday.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams joined Mayor Muriel Bowser and medical staff at GW Hospital to present the first novel coronavirus vaccinations in the District. Barbara Neiswander, a nursing supervisor at the hospital, was the first to receive a vaccine, and she was followed by Raymond Pla, an anesthesiology specialist and assistant professor of anesthesiology, who said he hopes he can encourage his Black patients to trust in the vaccine.