AMMC receives vaccines, COVID Unit Director first in line
AMMC receives vaccines, COVID Unit Director first in line By Miranda Reynolds | December 16, 2020 at 6:38 PM CST - Updated December 16 at 6:53 PM
PARAGOULD, Ark. (KAIT) - More and more COVID-19 vaccines are being received and given across Region 8. Arkansas Methodist Medical Center received theirs Tuesday night and began administering them Wednesday.
Front-line medical personnel is the first to receive the vaccine nationwide.
At AMMC, Registered Nurse Ashley DeWitte works as a director for the ICU and COVID Unit.
“I’ve never had to watch people die without their family there, without someone being there to hug them,” she said. “This is the most devastating virus I’ve ever seen.”