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V Day arrives at Lexington Medical, Prisma Health as first COVID vaccinations given Zak Koeske and Bristow Marchant, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Dec. 15 Lexington Medical Center and Prisma Health are among 15 health care systems across South Carolina that have received shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine and begun administering it to hospital staff.
Prisma Health announced Tuesday it had received 9,750 doses of the vaccine and Lexington said it had gotten nearly 3,000 doses at its West Columbia campus.
Both health systems said they had started to vaccinate employees Tuesday. The arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine is a historic moment for Lexington Medical Center, our community and the world, Tod Augsburger, president & CEO of Lexington Medical Center, said in a statement. We ve been anxiously anticipating this monumental day and hope it signifies a turning point and the beginning of the end of this global pandemic.
Midlands health care professionals receive first doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Thousands of doses were delivered to Columbia area hospitals Tuesday morning
Dec 15, 2020 6:16 PM EST
LEXINGTON, S.C. (WOLO) It’s been nine months since South Carolina’s first reported COVID-19 case, but on Tuesday, a COVID-19 vaccine has been administered for the first time in the Midlands.
Medical professionals at several Midlands hospitals received their first doses of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday afternoon, marking what could be a major turning point against the pandemic.
Like hundreds of nurses across South Carolina, Ethan Rucker has been a guiding hand for several patients in the midst of their fight against COVID-19.