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WVU Medicine Camden Clarkâs Emergency Department Director Brian Richardson received the first COVID-19 vaccine shot in Parkersburg by health manager Elizabeth Bennett on Tuesday morning.(Photo Provided)
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccine shots in Parkersburg were given out at WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center on Tuesday.
Issued out at 6 a.m., the first two to receive the shots were the hospital’s Emergency Department Director Brian Richardson and David Gnegy, President of Parkersburg Cardiology Associates.
Seeing positive cases in Wood County and the Mid-Ohio Valley on the rise in the last month. Richardson, believing that a vaccine will help prevent the spread of the virus, volunteered as one of the first to receive the vaccine shot.