First responders get COVID-19 vaccinations in Baldwin County
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
Heather Mott, 45, an emergency medical technician with MedStar Emergency Medical Services in Baldwin County, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Thursday December 17, 2020, at Thomas Hospital in Fairhope, Ala. Administering the vaccine is Jennifer Anderson-Fung, the hospital s pharmacy manager. (John Sharp/jsharp@al.com).
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Heather Mott knows people are “scared” about getting the COVID-19 vaccination, including first-responders who have been in contact with the general public throughout the nine-month pandemic.
On Thursday, Mott decided to set an example by becoming among the first of the emergency workers to receive a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Thomas Hospital in Fairhope.
Baldwin County nurse one of first to receive protection Baldwin County nurse Sheryl Swiger, was among the first in the state and the nation to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. Photo Courtesy of Infirmary Health Posted
By Allison Marlow
On Wednesday, Sheryl Swiger, a Baldwin County resident, was among the first people in the nation, and around the globe, to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Swiger, a nurse and director of Infirmary s Center for Wound Healing, Wound and Ostomy and Outpatient Infusion Therapy Departments, called the moment “exciting.”
“As an older health care worker working around positive Covid patients, I feel very excited to get the vaccine on the first day Infirmary Health is offering it to their at-risk employees,” she wrote in an email to The Baldwin Times after the inoculation. “This gives me hope and an added measure of peace of mind. It allows me to continue working and supporting the fight.”
Five Mobile County hospitals to get Pfizer vaccine this week
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
USA Health CEO Owen Bailey speaks during a ribbon cutting ceremony on a new $20 million Level 1 trauma center on Friday, December 11, 2020, at University Hospital in Mobile, Ala. (John Sharp/jsharp@al.com).
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The hospitals will give the initial doses to frontline healthcare workers
Dr. Scott Chavers, an epidemiologist with the Mobile County Health Department, told AL.com on Friday that Mobile Infirmary, University Hospital, USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital, Providence Hospital and Springhill Medical Center are on the state’s initial distribution lists.