UF Health begins administering COVID-19 vaccines in Gainesville
UF Health Shands Hospital gave 12 frontline workers vaccines Wednesday December 16, 2020 | 2:10pm EST
Samuel Overly, a UF Health clinical leader, is the first to get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital on Dec. 16, 2020. Suzy Wise administered the anticipated shot. Photo by Julia Coin | The Independent Florida Alligator
Dr. Joseph A. Tyndall was one of the first in Gainesville to get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday morning.
He said it didn’t hurt.
UF Health Shands Hospital administered its first 12 vaccines from UF Health Jacksonville at a news conference early Wednesday morning. Tyndall, chair of emergency medicine a